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Trio Mediaeval: Rímur
by Mario Calvitti
Rimur (vocabolo che ha già fornito il titolo anche a un album dei Sigur Ros) sono le canzoni in rima o allitterate della tradizione epica islandese che forniscono la base di partenza per questo album del Trio Mediaeval, dove alle voci delle tre cantanti norvegesi si unisce quella strumentale del trombettista loro connazionale Arve Henriksen. I ...
ECM e le voci: Theo Bleckmann e Sinikka Langeland
by Mario Calvitti
Con gli anni, le voci hanno acquistato un carattere sempre più rilevante nel catalogo ECM rispetto ai tempi della sua fondazione, quando l'etichetta bavarese era rivolta alla pubblicazione di musica di carattere prevalentemente jazzistico e quasi esclusivamente strumentale. I primi nomi di cantanti a trovar spazio nel catalogo dell'etichetta sono stati quelli di Norma Winstone, Aina ...
Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen: Rímur
by Mark Sullivan
Rímur are songs in the unique Icelandic tradition of rhyming narrative verse. Transmitted orally for centuries, in the twentieth century they were recorded and transcribed by ethnographers and folk song collectors. They form part of the inspiration for this music, along with chants, folk songs, religious hymns, and fiddle tunes. There's also an emphasis on improvisation, ...
The Magical Forest
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Puun Loitsu; Sammas; Jacob's Dream; The Wolfman; The Magical
Forest; Koyri;
Kamui;
Karsikko; Pillar to Heaven.
Trygve Seim: Rumi Songs
by Mark Sullivan
Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim may lack the marquee status of countryman (and fellow ECM artist) Jan Garbarek. But he is no less adventurous, and has recently been popping up all over on 2016 ECM releases: on Mats Eilertsen's Rubicon; with Sinikka Langeland and the Trio Medieval on The Magical Forest; with Iro Haarla and symphony orchestra ...
Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest
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 ...
Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest
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 ...
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.
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.
Punkt Festival 2015
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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