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Article: Album Review

Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest

Read "The Magical Forest" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Norwegian singer and kantele player Sinikka Langeland leads her Norwegian-Finnish-Swedish Starflowers quintet through a series of songs built upon myths and legends from Finnskogen, the forested area in eastern Norway bordering Sweden where Langeland has been based since 1992. The name means “forest of the Finns," reflecting the history of Finnish migration to the place during ...

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Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest

Read "The Magical Forest" reviewed by John Kelman


Some pairings seem, in retrospect, to be made in heaven; so inevitable that it's only when they actually take place that it becomes clear how predestined they were all along. Sinikka Langeland--a forward-thinking traditional singer and kantele (Finnish zither/dulcimer variant) champion garnering significant attention in her home country of Norway over the past two decades--has, since ...

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The half-finished heaven

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Hare rune; The light streams in; The white burden; The half-finished heaven; The woodcock's flight; Caw of the crane; The tree and the sky; The magical bird; Hymn to the fly; Animal miniatures; The blue tit's spring song; Animal moment.

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The half-finished heaven

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Hare rune; The Light Streams in; The White Burden; The Half-Finished Heaven; The Woodcock's Flight; Caw of the Crane; The Tree and the Sky; The Magical Bird; Hymn to the Fly; Animal Miniatures; The Blue Tit's Spring Song; Animal Moment.

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2015

Read "Punkt Festival 2015" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 3-5, 2015 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway on the Skagerrak strait. It has a population of 86,000 (the greater urban area 155,000) and is the county capital of Vest-Agder.

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Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu

Read "Manu Katche: Touchstone for Manu" reviewed by John Kelman


With only four records released as a leader on ECM, it may seem a little early to release a “best of" disc for drummer Manu Katché. But having since moved on to fellow German label ACT for Live in Concert, while Touchstone for Manu is only being released in North America in the summer of 2015, ...

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Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa: Trees of Light

Read "Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa: Trees of Light" reviewed by John Kelman


It's not often that a new recording appears on ECM from Anders Jormin--a bassist who is, perhaps, best-known for his work in fellow Swede Bobo Stenson's ongoing trio, last heard on 2012's superb Indicum (ECM), and for his tenure, alongside Stenson, in Charles Lloyd's career-defining 1990s quartets, collected recently in the Old & New Masters Edition ...

Article: Album Review

Sinikka Langeland: The Half-Finished Heaven

Read "The Half-Finished Heaven" reviewed by Vic Albani


Esistono, lo sanno bene gli elfi piuttosto che gli umani, paradisi finiti a metà. Uno di questi lo racconta -grazie anche alle liriche di Tomas Tranströmer -nella sua quarta esperienza nei solchi di ECM la norvegese {Sinikka Langeland, regina del delicatissimo kantele, un'interessante variante del nordico dulcimer in stile cetra/arpa. L'altro è quello ormai certificato e ...

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The half-finished heaven

Read "The half-finished heaven" reviewed by John Kelman


She may have debuted on ECM (and, consequently, far beyond the borders of her native Norway) with 2007's Starflowers, but Sinikka Langeland has, in fact, been around for more than two decades, with her first album, Langt Innpå Skoga, released on Norway's Grappa label in 1994. Composer, singer and master of the kantele—an antiquated Scandinavian dulcimer/zither ...

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Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections

Read "Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections" reviewed by John Kelman


Few artists could call an album The Nature of Connections with as much veracity as Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. There's been the myriad of collaborations on his own albums--just a small handful of the contributors to recordings including Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon, 2013), Cartography (ECM, 2008), Strjon (Rune Grammofon, 2007) and Chiaroscuro (Rune Grammofon, 2004) ...


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