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Folk Favourites
DJ 99 shares some of his favourite Norwegian folk music tracks with you.
Releases
Kenneth De Gala:
Spursmann
Catch up with one of the latest releases from Etnisk Musikklubb.
Martyred Saints & Sister Bells
STAVE CHURCH SONGS
This new album from Elisabeth Holmertz, Anders Røine, Harald Skullerud and Elisabeth Vatn has a strong historical connection and is based on a notation for a medieval sequence dating back to the 12th ...
Meltemi - Wind of Mykonos
Oluf Dimitri Røe
A Greek-Norwegian musical journey.
Er det runir
Svein Westad, Halvor Håkanes, Anne Svånaug Haugan & Svein Stensaker
Medieval ballads and old tunes in new arrangements.
Hommage à Ole Bull
Nils Økland & Sigbjørn Apeland
With this record Nils Økland and Sigbjørn Apeland commemorate the fabulous work of Norwegian composer and violinist Ole Bull
Áiggi Askkis - An Introduction to
Mari Boine
2011 sees the release of Áiggi Askkis – An introduction to which is a two-disc compilation that sums up a career hardly any other Norwegian artist is able to match.
Straum, stille
Slagr
On Slagr's striking second album, tradition and modernity are entering into a darkly beguiling liaison.
Rakhshani Love Songs and Trance Music from Balochistan
Rakshani Music from Balochistan
Etnisk Musikklubb is releasing a new CD with Rakshani music from Balochistan. Main artist on the double CD is the highly acclaimed musician Abdulrahman Surizehi from Saravan in Iranian Balochistan, no...
NEW CD:
Ferd
Hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre is releasing a new album of traditional and new tunes called "Ferd" (Journey). Hamre is one of Norway's foremost performers of the hardanger fiddle with a long carrier as ...
Diom De Kossa with new CD:
Baba Toulenga - in my father's shadow
As a child he picked coffee beans in the rainforest in the north of Ivory Coast. Today he is a drum master from Holmlia in Oslo, with a musical career spanning from playing in bands with Robert Burås ...
New CD from Sudan Dudan:
Kari og Ola
The sparkling Norwegian duo Sudan Dudan are finally ready to release their follow-up of the previous success recording Sudan Dudan. Their new album is a compilation of old songs dressed in a mix of No...
New CD:
Hardanger fiddle music from Valdres
- The intention with this recording has not been to mimic an archaic playing style, but rather to acknowledge what the style has meant to Jan Beitohaugen Granli and show the inherent power of this mus...
New CD:
Kouame Sereba releases ambient afrobeat
African music is most commonly associated with rhythm, festivity and color. “Bako”, however, provides storytelling and a deeper, contemplative expression in which rhythm has an integral part.
New CD:
Norwegian traditional music between religion and superstition
At certain points, folk singing and fiddle playing were regarded as the purest of sins. On the album "Salme, segn og solbøn" (Psalm, tale and sun prayer), the siblings Ingvill Marit and Per Anders Bue...
New CD:
A time to cry
Under the title "A time to cry", the Norwegian record label Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) is now releasing a CD recorded this spring in a threatened Palestine home in East Jerusalem.
Alde:
New music for Hardanger Fiddle
Benedicte Maurseth has composed fresh and vibrant new tunes for hardanger fiddle, and on this new album she performs them all as a solo fiddler. Some of the tunes were originally composed for the thea...
The Trondheim Soloists:
Passionate play with Folk Songs
Revealing intense musical details, the new CD In Folk Style sets a new standard for the performance of Edvard Grieg's "Suite From Holberg's Time". In addition the folk musicians and soloists Gjermund ...
Unni Boksasp Ensemble releases new CD:
Keramello
"Keramello" is Unni Boksasp Ensemble`s second album, with folk tunes from her home area in Mid Norway.
New CD from Sondre Bratland and Annbjørg Lien:
Alle vegne
For a number of years the duo of Sondre Bratland and Annbjørg Lien has been performing in concerts in Norwegian churches. This CD, "Alle vegne" (Everywhere), presents their fully ripened versions of N...
Johan Sara jr.:
Transmission
"I have lived through the different seasons in the arctic nature and I have become aware of the sounds of nature. Each season has its own shade of sound", Johan Sara jr. states about his new CD releas...
raw, lyrical and subtle:
CD Release of Eplemøya Songlag
The choral trio Eplemøya Songlag explores and exploits the possibilities inherent in the fusion of jazz vocals and traditional Norwegian folk singing, including both traditional material which they ar...
Etter`n Guttorm:
Album Release with popular music from the 1800s
Singer Guttorm Flisen from Elverum in the eastern part of Norway is the inspiration for a new CD by the ensemble "Etter`n Guttorm". This is popular music of the people from the 1800s, long before mode...
November
Annlaug Børsheim
Annlaug Børsheim just released her first solo recording inspired by a number of journeys between Scotland and Norway
Sandkorn
Sigrid Moldestad
Sigrid Moldestad is releasing a new record called “Sandkorn”
Skir
Majorstuen
Majorstuen’s new album Skir out on February 1st
Langt ute
Geitungen
The album Langt Ute presents tunes that were once popular with party-goers in the hinterland of Rogaland county, tunes that were dance-floor favourites – the hits of yesteryear.
Pre develske drom
Henning Gustavsen
Henning Gustavsen presents mild but powerful music from the Norwegian Romani/Travellers tradition.
SAPMI
Torgeir Vassvik
Traditional arctic music with a contemporary, urban edge
The Meråker Clarinet
Bjørn Aksdal & Geir Egil Larsen
In Meråker, a parish situated north-east of Trondheim close to the Swedish border, an old and very special home-made folk clarinet is found.
Eins
Britt Pernille Frøholm & Irene Tillung
FRØHOLM/TILLUNG is one of the most exciting folk music duos in Norway today.
Dalstroka innafor
Johanne Flottorp, Gard Nergaard & Tor Hoslemo
With this album the Folk Music Archives of Agder presents tunes played by three of the best Hardanger fiddlers of the region.
Norway World/Traditional
Various artists
A wide-ranging sampler promoting a fine variety of the most recent releases from the Norwegian traditional and world music scene.
MÁNU RÁVDNJI
Adjágas
Adjágas’ music is gentle, peaceful, dreamlike, spiritual and utterly engrossing. It is, at the same time, strangely alien.
Come home
Annbjørg Lien og Bjørn Ole Rasch
“Come home” is a personal production made on a naked and down to earth manner; fiddles, nyckelharpor, vocals and harmonium.
Seven Winds
Seven Winds
In 2008 ”Seven winds” toured Norway, Sri Lanka, Korea, China, India, Nepal, and Tanzania. Now they are releasing their first CD as a trio on Heilo label.
To måner
Valkyrien Allstars
It is often said that music is a live activity that should be seen performed and not only listened to. The truth of this assertion is very much proven when attending a concert by the Valkyrien Allstar...
Rammeslag II
Daniel Sandén-Warg & Sigurd Brokke
RAMMESLAG, the first album Daniel Sandén-Warg and Sigurd Brokke did together, received excellent reviews and was described as ”folk music’s rock-’n-roll” and ”the best possible”.The CD won a Folkalarm...
Duo
Asklak Brimi and Erlend Viken
For many fiddlers, the combination of two fiddles is the epitome of musical interaction. It is like a conversation. One fiddle asks, the other answers, they taunt each other, fight with each other, co...
Olav Luksengard Mjelva
