Karin Krog - Folkways

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:42
Size: 112,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:36)  1. Waly Waly (The Water Is Wide)
(1:32)  2. Ola Ola Min Eigen Unge
(2:59)  3. Nissespill Og Fans Polka
(4:27)  4. Malfrid Min Frue
(1:51)  5. Arve Brakars halling (versjon 2)
(3:28)  6. Lokk
(1:05)  7. Pathway
(2:46)  8. Fingubben
(2:13)  9. Melodi
(2:07) 10. Brudedans
(2:18) 11. Purka
(1:49) 12. Gjestebudet
(2:45) 13. Vakker er du
(2:36) 14. Soldaten og jenta
(1:52) 15. Huldrevise
(2:48) 16. Halling medley / Arve Brakar
(1:45) 17. Bansull
(5:33) 18. Raga Variations
(1:03) 19. Pathway

Jazz singer Karin Krog may have made stormy improv recordings with a young Jan Garbarek in the late 60s, but this is almost entirely a folk album, devoted to the traditional Norwegian music collected by her violinist great-grandfather, Anders Heyerdahl. As such, it perhaps refines the notion of a niche-market venture more tightly than usual, but folk devotees and jazz admirers of Krog's graceful handling of the malleability of tone will warm to this highly personal set  which features her partner and collaborator John Surman as a second voice on various reed instruments. 

Krog's deceptive simplicity guides an expressive account of The Water Is Wide as an opener, but almost all the rest of the material is sung in Norwegian some of it jiggily fiddle-driven and Celtic-sounding, some of it like stately lullabies or gospel songs, such as Krog's solo exposition Arve Brakar. Norwegian contemporary composer Arne Nordheim contributed Raga Variations, a tapestry of wordless vocal sighs, Surman's wraith-like soprano sax and subtle electronics a set of sonic surprises the album could perhaps have used a little more of, but it's beautifully executed. ~ John Fordham https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/03/karin-krog-folkways-review

Folkways

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