欧洲历险记 - 白俄罗斯Atmospheric Black / Folk Metal乐队Evoking Winds专访

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Evoking Winds是一个由Artyom Prishchepov于2005年发起的民谣/氛围黑金属网络计划，迄今为止3已经发行了8张全长专辑。不过，虽然乐队成员在20年间一直持续不断创作，但直到2021年才开始在流媒体上上传自己的音乐作品，所以我们大多数人认为这个乐队是从2021年才开始创作的。Evoking Winds的作品充满了神话传说，氛围，和动听的民族乐器，给人一种史诗的，传奇的氛围感，这或许是属于白俄罗斯独有的大气和史诗。非常可惜的是，乐队已经于2025年解散，而本次我们也邀请到了Artyom Prishchepov来做一次专访。

（V: 代表笔者 A: 代表Artyom Prishchepov）

Evoking Winds is a folk/atmospheric black metal online project initiated by Artyom Prishchepov in 2005. So far, it has released 8 full-length albums. However, although the band members have been continuously creating music for 20 years, they didn't start uploading their music on streaming platforms until 2021. Therefore, most of us believe that the band began creating music in 2021. The works of Evoking Winds are filled with myths, atmosphere, and beautiful ethnic instruments, creating an epic and legendary atmosphere. This might be the unique grandeur and epic of Belarus. Unfortunately, the band disbanded in 2025, and we have invited Artyom Prishchepov to do an interview with us this time.

(V: Author A: Artyom Prishchepov)

采访对象：Artyom Prishchepov（Evoking Winds乐队主创）

采访时间：2025.09.11

V: 你好Artyom，感谢你接受这次采访。我想这是你第一次与中国粉丝交流。首先能否请你介绍一下自己和你的乐队Evoking Winds？乐队是什么时候成立的？你们是怎么走到一起的？

Hello, Artyom, thank you for accepting this interview. I think this is the first time you communicate with Chinese fans. So first of all, could you introduce yourself and your band Evoking Winds. When did it form and how did you come together?

A: 你好，非常感谢你的邀请！这是我第一次和中国的听众对话，我感到十分荣幸。我叫Artyom Prishchepov，是一名作曲家，来自白俄罗斯。过去二十年来，我一直致力于探索Folk、Metal乐和电影配乐如何融合为一体。Evoking Winds诞生于2005年，当时一群热爱Black Metal和Folk Metal的朋友聚在一起。我们分散在不同的城市，甚至不同的国家，但都因对传说和重音乐的热爱而紧密相连。

Hello, and thank you so much for the invitation! It’s a real pleasure to greet listeners in China for the first time. My name is Artyom Prishchepov, I’m a composer, originally from Belarus, and for the last twenty years I’ve been exploring how folklore, metal, and cinematic soundscapes can merge into one. Evoking Winds was born back in 2005 among a group of friends who were passionate about black and folk metal. We were scattered across different cities, even countries, but connected through the same love for legends and heavy music.

V: 因为Evoking Winds是一个网络乐队，你觉得乐队成员之间的沟通有困难吗？你觉得这种合作模式是否影响了你的创作过程？

Since Evoking Winds is an online band, do you think there are certain difficulties in communication among the musicians? And do you feel that this collaborative model has affected your creative process?

A: 有趣的事实：在二十年的合作中我们从未见过面。我甚至不知道在我们很多唱片中献唱的主唱Alexander在现实生活中说话是什么样子。我们甚至都没想过要互相打电话——目前主要是通过Slack通讯软件进行文字交流。但某种程度上，这正是它的魅力所在。我们每个人在灵感来临时就工作，然后把材料传递下去。我们不必排练和为巡演做准备，所以有更多时间去思考和打磨作品。我们不是强加想法，而是雕琢它们。我想说这种模式让我们能够从唱片中剔除一切不必要的东西：通常需要一些时间去沉淀和思考。

Fun fact: during two decades of collaboration we never met in person. I even don't know how the vocalist Alexander who sang on many of our records talks in real life. We never bothered to call each other - it's mostly text exchange on Slack messenger for the time being. But in some ways, that’s the beauty of it. Each of us works when inspiration strikes, and then we pass the material along. We don't have to rehearse and prepare ourselves for tours, so it allows more time for reflection and material polishing. Instead of forcing ideas, we sculpt them. I would say this model allows out to throw out everything unnecessary from the record: it usually takes some time to sink and think.

V: 你的很多歌词都取材于东欧民间故事。你为什么决定围绕这个主题创作音乐？你能举个例子谈谈音乐中的故事吗？

Many of your lyrics draw on Eastern European folk tales. Why did you decide to create music around this theme? Could you give an example and talk about the story in the music?

A: 民间传说一直是我最深刻的灵感源泉。这些故事承载着世代的记忆、恐惧与希望。比如，我们的歌曲"Bald Mountain"就源于斯拉夫神话，那座山既是令人恐惧的地方，也是令人着迷的地方，里面住着女巫和精灵。在音乐中，我们试图捕捉这种双重性：诱惑与危险、美丽与恐怖并存，两者相互交织。

Folklore has always been my deepest source of inspiration. These tales are codes of memory, fears, and hopes of generations. For example, our song Bald Mountain is rooted in Slavic mythology, where the mountain is seen as a place of both fear and fascination, inhabited by witches and spirits. In the music, we tried to capture that duality: temptation and danger, beauty and terror walking hand in hand.

V: 在制作专辑时，你通常是先定义一个主题，然后围绕它创作音乐，还是先创作音乐，然后再为它选择一个主题？

When making an album, do you usually first define a theme and then create music around it, or do you create the music first and then select a theme for it later?

A: 对我来说，主题永远是第一位的。我是一个非常“概念”的作曲家，每一张专辑都像是一个小世界。一旦我知道我想讲什么故事，音乐就会随之而来。旋律，和声，甚至是乐器的选择都是为了服务于特定主题的氛围。

For me, the theme always comes first. I’m very much a “conceptual” composer, every album is like a little world. Once I know what story I want to tell, the music follows. The melodies, harmonies, and even instrumentation are chosen to serve the atmosphere of that particular theme.

V: Evoking Winds成立于2005年，但起初仅发行了一张简单的EP专辑。直到2021年你们才开始大规模创作音乐。在这超过十年的时间里，你们是否仍在从事音乐创作呢？是什么契机促使你们重启Evoking Winds的项目呢？

Evoking Winds was founded in 2005, but initially, it only released a simple EP. It wasn’t until 2021 that you started creating music on a large scale. During those more than ten years, were you still engaged in music creation? And what opportunity led you to revive the Evoking Winds project?

A: Evoking Winds是一个个人兴趣项目，仅有少量实体版本（包括“赠予朋友”的光盘和磁带发行）。我们在2008年完成了"Towards Homestead"，2013年有了"Silent Dawn"，2015年有了"Conjunction of Spheres"，2019年有了"The Heroes"。然后到了2021年，我找到了在流媒体平台上发布作品的方法，对它进行了些许调整以符合iTunes的要求并在一年的时间内陆续发布了所有这些作品。所以就我们的音乐创作而言，这是一个循序渐进的过程，而不是停顿和爆发。发布速度令人困惑，但现在是2025年，对我们来说，记录上的数字是多少已经不重要了，过去的已经过去了。

Evoking Winds was a hobby project with small number of physical ("for friends" cd and tape releases). We had Towards Homestead finished in 2008, Silent Dawn in 2013, Conjunction of Spheres in 2015 and The Heroes in 2019. Then it was 2021, when I figured out the way to publish it on streaming platforms, mastered it a bit for iTunes requirements and released all of them one after another during one year timeframe. So in terms of our music writing it was gradual non-stop process, rather than pause and blast. The release pace is source of confusion, but it's 2025 now and it doesn't matter for us what numbers are on our records, what is past, is gone.

V: 从2021年到现在，你觉得乐队的音乐有什么变化吗？

From 2021 to the present, do you think the band’s music has undergone any changes?

A: 肯定。早期的作品更多的是在旁观——我很喜欢处理声音。我的目标是创造出你从远处就能看到的声音，而不是在音乐会上听——因此我以这种方式指导制作和混音。在某种程度上，用同样的声音制作对我们来说已经变得无聊了，所以从2022年左右开始，我们加入了更多的交响乐和电影元素，有时接近于原声带。此外，我们扩大了民间乐器和歌唱的调色板，使其更有趣的发挥和记录。

Definitely. The early works were more of shoegazing - I liked to process sound a lot. My goal was creating the sound that you can see from the far, rather than listening on the concert - thus I guided the production and mixing this way. At some point it has become boring for us to produce in the same sound, so since 2022 or so we’ve embraced more symphonic and cinematic elements, sometimes bordering on soundtrack-like. Also we expanded the palette of folklore instruments and singings to make it more interesting to play and record.

V: 你已经发行了8张全长专辑，但没有一张是实体专辑。你能谈谈原因吗？你目前有没有和唱片公司合作发行CD的计划？

You have released 8 full-length albums, yet none of them are physical releases. Could you talk about the reason for this? Do you currently have any plans to collaborate with a record label to release CDs?

A: 这里有两个组成部分：习惯和爱好模式。说到习惯，对于后苏联地区的居民来说，他们对CD或黑胶唱片并没有强烈的怀旧之情。原因很简单——在这些格式还流行的时候，这些原版唱片在这里的价格相当昂贵。所以在没有流媒体时代，这里的音乐主要是通过下载和带有MP3歌曲目录的CD-R来传播的。当流媒体来到这里后，它变得足够便宜而易于使用——而实体格式便逐渐消失了。这里拥有黑胶唱片或CD播放器的人群非常少，而我们大多数人则是通过YouTube、Spotify和苹果音乐来听音乐的。说到“爱好模式”，对我和我的伙伴们而言，音乐就是工作结束后让我们头脑清醒的良药。我们希望保持这种状态：没有标签、没有实体发行、没有合同、没有营销、没有巡回演出等等。在我的另一份工作中，我经营着一家大型软件企业，管理这家公司已经够让人头疼的了。对于我们来说，创作音乐是用来放松、用来享受的，而不是用来烦恼的事情。

There are two components here: habits and hobby mode. Speaking of habits, in post-soviet regions we don't have big nostalgia towards CDs or Vinyls. It's simple - back in the days of these formats being relevant, original discs were damn expensive here. So in the pre-streaming era, the music here was mainly distributed through torrents and CD-Rs with mp3 discographies. When streaming has come here, it was cheap enough to use it - and physical formats disappeared. There is very small audience who has vinyl or cd players here, and most of us listen to music via Youtube, Spotify and Apple music. Speaking about the hobby mode, music for me and my mates is something to clear our heads after work. We want to keep it this way: no labels, no physical releases, contracts, marketing, tours etc etc. I run large software enterprise in my other life and it's enough of the headache to manage. Music making is something to relax and not bother for us.

V: 在5年的时间里，他们发行了8张专辑。就你个人而言，你最喜欢哪一张专辑呢？

Evoking Winds has released 8 albums in five years. For yourself personally, which one is your favorite?

A: 这绝对是"Your Rivers"。我花了4年的时间来写这张专辑，又花了1年多的时间来录音和制作。我想说这张专辑讲述了Evoking Winds存在的原因。它唤起了我从痛苦、失去和忍耐中得到的非常个人的教训。虽然它被放置在Witcher的世界中，但它讲述了渴望在这个世界上找到自己位置的真实生活故事。这张专辑结晶了我想要的Evoking Winds的一切：民间传说，氛围，暴风雨的鼓声和美丽交织在一起。

It will be definitely Your Rivers. It took me 4 years to write it, and 1 more year to record and produce with the guys. I would say this album is Evoking Winds' main message, the reason this project existed. It raises very personal lessons I got from pain, loss and endurance. Although it's placed in the Witcher universe, it tells the real life stories of longing to find your own place in this world. The album crystallises everything I wanted Evoking Winds to be: folklore, atmosphere, stormy blast beats and beauty woven together.

V: 你认为你的音乐创作是否受到了其他乐队的影响，比如Saor或Cân Bardd？

Do you think your music creation has been influenced by any other bands, such as Saor or Cân Bardd?

A: 我想说它受到了许多乐队的影响：Moonsorrow， Enslaved, Paul Anthony Romero, Graveworm, Agathodaimon， Catamenia和许多不同风格的乐队，从Melodic Black Metal到Viking Metal和管弦乐幻想音乐。但事实上，我很欣赏Saor， Cân Bardd和其他许多通过金属来创作风景和神话的人。

I would say it was influenced by many bands: Moonsorrow, Enslaved, Paul Anthony Romero, Graveworm, Agathodaimon, Catamenia and many more projects in different genres from melodic black metal, to viking metal and orchestral fantasy music. But indeed, I admire Saor, Cân Bardd, and many others who work with landscapes and myths through metal.

V: Evoking Winds刚刚解散，但是我在你们的官网上看到你们即将推出一个新的项目。你有兴趣介绍一下这个新项目吗？它和Evoking Winds有什么关系？

Evoking Winds disbanded not long ago, but I saw on your official website that you are about to launch a new project. Would you be interested in introducing this new project? What connection does it have with Evoking Winds?

A: 是的，在将近二十年后，随着“Your Rivers”的发行，我觉得是时候结束“Evoking Winds”这一篇章了。不过，这是一系列与同一团队合作的项目。以下是其中的一些："Black Brass Reverie"——融合了Post Black Metal和Dark Jazz风格，讲述的是几个陌生人乘坐船只一起旅行并在酒吧里畅饮威士忌的故事。充满了孤独感、黑色氛围和中年危机。"Clockwork Aphrodite "——这是一部发生在维多利亚晚期伦敦的Gothic Black Metal作品，受到了夏洛克·福尔摩斯小说的大量影响，还带有一点Steampunk元素。"The Witcher's Brew"——这是我的dungeon synth项目，以更轻松、有趣的方式延续了Witcher的主题。我的首张专辑"Don't Let Nekkers Steal Your Casio"即将发行，其中包含我最喜欢的（而且简直太俗气了）的synths, Casio CZ-1.

Yes, after almost twenty years and release of Your Rivers, it felt like the right time to close the Evoking Winds chapter. But oh, it's a bunch of projects with the same people. Here are some of them: Black Brass Reverie - is post black metal fused with dark jazz, telling the stories of strangers travelling together on by ship and drinking whisky in the bar. Quintessence of solitude, noir atmosphere and middle-life crisis. Clockwork Aphrodite - is a gothic black metal happening in the setting of late-victorian London, with a lot of influence from Sherlock Holmes prose and a little bit of steampunk. The Witcher's Brew - is my dungeon synth project, continuing the Witcher themes in a more relaxed, funny atmosphere. The debut album "Don't Let Nekkers Steal Your Casio" is coming soon, featuring one of my favourite (and cheesy as hell) synths, Casio CZ-1.

V: 感谢你参加这次采访。我真的很喜欢你的音乐，期待你未来的作品。采访结束时你还有什么想对大家说的吗？

Thank you for participating in this interview. I really love your music and am looking forward to your future works. Is there anything else you would like to say to everyone at the end of the interview?

A: 非常感谢。对于我们在中国的听众，我真的很荣幸我们的音乐传到了你们的耳朵里。尽管我们相距遥远，但音乐让我们分享同样的故事、情感和梦想。请照顾好自己，愿灵感之风常伴你左右。

Thank you so much. To our listeners in China - I’m truly honored that our music has reached you. Even though we live far apart, music allows us to share the same stories, emotions, and dreams. Please take care of yourselves, and may the winds of inspiration always be with you.