Bibiel Hears Things: Caprice – “Bath Song”

Hey people! Today I’ve got a silly little song for you. The group whose song I decided to feature is Caprice – they are a Russian ensemble who make a sort of neoclassical, ethereal folk, aiming to sound like what the music of elves could have been. The founder of the ensemble, musician and composer Anton Brejestovski, has actually even created a language called Laoris, in which he’s written some songs for Caprice. The tune to this song was composed by him. I have good memories of their music; I was first introduced to it by Last.fm, and my late friend Jacek of Helsinki was also listening to them at that time, so I associate it with him a lot. I’ve shared one song by them before, which is their interpretation of Robert Burns’s poem “Birks of Aberfeldy”. This song is, as you might have expected from the title, the bath song of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits. It is sung in “The Fellowship of the Ring” by Pippin, when he, Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee are bathing at Crickhollow, after a journey…