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A Single Sunbeam
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: To Render in Paint; Eclipse Cycles; Two Shades; Light a Candle; A Single Sunbeam; Tunnel; Between Science and Superstition; Your Inner Shadow.
Daniel Herskedal: A Single Sunbeam
by Geno Thackara
What Del Close did for the art of improv comedy or Jacques Torres for the art of chocolate, Daniel Herskedal does for the tuba. An occasional star such as Bob Stewart has taken the instrument somewhere fresh outside the time-honored contexts of orchestra or marching band, but it is another thing to make the entire tradition ...
Daniel Herskedal: Call For Winter
by Ian Patterson
Tubaist Daniel Herskedal is on a roll. In 2019, shortly after the release of Voyage (Edition Records), he picked up a Norwegian Grammy as part of Marja Mortensson's trio for the outstanding Mojhtestasse (Vuelie, 2018). This was followed by the soundtrack on the closing credits of Joe Talbot's award-winning film Last Blackman in San Francisco (2019). ...
Lååje – Dawn
Label: Vuelie
Released: 2019
Track listing: Gubpede böötim - Where Did I Come From; Piere Åvla - Piere Åvla’s Yoik; Eagnede fropmehkem - A Storm is Rising;
Tjájhnie - The Woodpecker; Lååje - Dawn; Årrode våårege - Be Cautious; Riäksage - The Ptarmigan; Biejjeste beajjan -
From One Day to the Next; Orresje - A Place to Live.
Mojhtestasse
Label: Vuelie
Released: 2018
Track listing: Miesiej vuelie (The Reindeer Calves - a cappella); Svahken vuelie (The Mountain of Svahke); Daniel Mortenson; Johan A. Persson; Galkije johke (Running Water); Miesiej vuelie (The Reindeer Calves - arranged version); Vaajese (A Tale); Vaartije (Cairn); Mojhtesh (Memories); Aajmeste (From the Snow Storm); Saltien alda muw (My Reindeer Cow); Mojhtestasse (Cultural Heirlooms).
Marja Mortensson: Mojhtestasse
by Ian Patterson
The passing on of musical tradition is fundamental to any culture, but so too is innovation, which breathes new life into old ways. Mojhtestasse, the second album by Norwegian south Saami singer Marja Mortensson, continues her revival of the yoik tradition--a unique, chant-like vocalisation--that has been dormant in her family for several generations. Mortensson's wordless chant-cum-improvisations ...
