Releases

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 ...

A Greek-Norwegian musical journey.

Medieval ballads and old tunes in new arrangements.

With this record Nils Økland and Sigbjørn Apeland commemorate the fabulous work of Norwegian composer and violinist Ole Bull

The trio Tindra performs irresistibly charming folk music with drive and a sense for the small, fine details.

The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir explores the complex landscape of folk music

On Slagr's striking second album, tradition and modernity are entering into a darkly beguiling liaison.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

- 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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

"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...

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...

Annlaug Børsheim just released her first solo recording inspired by a number of journeys between Scotland and Norway

Sigrid Moldestad is releasing a new record called “Sandkorn”

Majorstuen’s new album Skir out on February 1st

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.

Traditional arctic music with a contemporary, urban edge

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.

FRØHOLM/TILLUNG is one of the most exciting folk music duos in Norway today.

With this album the Folk Music Archives of Agder presents tunes played by three of the best Hardanger fiddlers of the region.

A wide-ranging sampler promoting a fine variety of the most recent releases from the Norwegian traditional and world music scene.

Adjágas’ music is gentle, peaceful, dreamlike, spiritual and utterly engrossing. It is, at the same time, strangely alien.

“Come home” is a personal production made on a naked and down to earth manner; fiddles, nyckelharpor, vocals and harmonium.

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.

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...

Maros presents songs that are connected with nature, people and animals. It is a journey through a musical landscape where past and present meet with their different moods.

Johan Sara Jr. is one of the world’s best performers in one of Europe’s oldest song traditions, Sami music from the Arctic, the joik. His unique combination of joik and contemporary elements provides ...

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...

SVER’s music is recognized by a high energy-level, tight interaction and creative and modern arrangements that take the Norwegian folk-music to a new and pleasant expression.

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...

Fest is the first CD from the folk trio Fotefar (Footprints) and clarinet player Håvard Lund.

A new release from Olav Luksengård Mjelva, his debut album and one for fiddle fans. Bringing together some distinct styles of playing, read the full article as he explains his background and aims for ...

Synnøve S. Bjørset ranks among the foremost performers of traditional Hardanger fiddle music today. With uncommon strength and spirit, she now presents a tasteful, melodious collection of little-known...

Gro Marie Svidal meets us with excellent, sparkling Hardanger fiddling in her 2009 debut album. This is a production that provides more than folk music documentation and fact. We are exposed to convin...

The first ECM album to appear under Nils Økland’s name, “Monograph” follows the Norwegian violinist’s discs for the label with Christian Wallumrød - “Sofienberg Variations” (2001) and “A Year From Eas...

Draumkvedet was transcribed by Jørgen Moe and M. B. Landstad in the mid-19th century. Since then it has held a special place in Norwegian and Nordic folk poetry and the kvedar (traditional vocal) trad...

Round dances and the associated music spread throughout the rural communities towards the end of the 18th century. The waltz was the first to arrive, and quickly became very popular.

Gjermund Larsen’s music displays an unusually broad emotional range, from virtuosic brilliance to gentle tenderness. He takes a masterly approach to the older tonalities of Hilmar Alexandersen, while ...

Now in his seventieth year, Sondre Bratland has made a powerfully melodious and moving album with his own songs featuring texts by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge.

Inga Juuso is one of the most prominent Sami artists today, not only as a soloist, but also with her involvement in numerous CD-productions throughout the years. She grew up with classical Sami yoik a...

In recent years Ragnhild Furebotten og Tore Bruvoll have played a very important part in bringing some of Norway’s older music traditions into the present day. They are among the best known folk music...

Yoik and jazz are innovative music genres that invite improvisation. This CD is a meeting between the genres by two outstanding representatives of each music style.

“I always imagined I’d be a rock musician or a ski jumper, playing drums with the hardest band in the world or flying for hundreds of meters off the ski jump. And it felt like it, too, those fabulous ...

If you’ve never heard music played on the fiddle or jew’s harp before, this is the place to start. And if you have, be advised that what you are holding is a landmark recording.

This album presents two young and very competent performers of the rich folk music tradition from Setesdal. Sigurd Brokke and Daniel Sandén-Warg play solo folk music with marked rhythm and a rather hi...

It is a pleasure to be able to present this selection of medieval ballads sung by one of the most distinctive and highly respected vocalists of the Scandinavian traditional landscape.

“I’ve been fascinated by traditional¬ music since childhood. I grew up in Hornindal, Nordfjord on the west coast, in a home full of music: My grandfather played the Hardanger fiddle, my father played ...

In 2007 the Telemark Festival featured acclaimed artist and folk musician Annbjørg Lien as festival composer. As part of an international folk music string quartet Lien performed her newly completed c...

The long list of famed fiddlers from previous centuries is dominated by men. Despite the fact that female fiddlers were a minority, there have been exceptions to the rule, among other places in Nordfj...

In the growing forest of younger, competent performers of vocal folk music in Norway, Kim Amdre Rysstad is one of those who, in a short period of time, has established himself as a highly respected pe...

Flukt has gained a name for creativity in Norwegian folk music. Here, in their third CD, the musicians are still flying high in their striving for ultimate expression for the combo of fiddle, accordio...

The world premiere for an impressive” ramshorn” (goat horn) lure and willow flute album, of a kind never heard before!

Two great poets from Lom: Tor Jonsson (1916–1951) and Olav Aukrust (1883–1929. Though their views of rural life were far apart, it held a great influence on them both. Tor Jonsson faced much hardship ...

Unni Boksasp is a warm and imaginative singer who draws you easily into the world of her own Norwegian traditions.

With a single exception, all the tunes on this record were collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (1812–87). The song Hagbard og Signe was transcribed by O.M. Sandvik (1875–1976) after Svein Tveiten fro...

The music of “Ragnhild Furebotten Trio” has musical preferences within contemporary music, Nordic, American and French folk music as well as classical music – reflecting a modern way of thinking and a...

Three years after their recording “Nattsang” (2004) duo Bruvoll/Halvorsen return with the sequel. Norwegian medieval ballads and folk tunes were their point of departure then as now, and this time the...

Unni Løvlid returns with a new album, three years after her previous solo release Vita (2005) recorded in the Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum. It has taken four years to complete the present album, for whi...

Annbjørg Lien from Norway joins Catriona Macdonald from Shetland, Liz Carroll and Liz Knowles from America, Mairead ni Mhaonaigh (Altan) from Ireland and Emma Härdelin from Sweden to assemble in Glasg...

John Ole Morken is a native of Holtålen County in the region of Trøndelag, Norway. Holtålen, located south of Trondheim and bordering on Røros, has rich music and dance traditions whose history dates ...