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This artist-owned Norwegian label is completely unique in its approach, offering a group of artists who blur the lines between tradition and innovation, as well as producing some excellent folkoric recordings.

Ossicles - Karl Seglem
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-10100)
The Norwegian saxophone (and goat horn) weilding explorer is joined by Håkon Høgemo: Hardanger fiddle; Olav Torget: electric guitars, konting, mbira; Gjermund Silset: electric bass and percussionists Erland Dahlen, Kenneth Ekornes and Harald Skullerud on this 2010 release. All About Jazz calls it "an album that occupies the same continuum as fellow Norwegians like saxophonist Jan Garbarek and traditionalist singer Mari Boine but, with its combination of goat horns, Hardanger fiddles, ethnic percussion and African instruments breaks down barriers in its own very personal way." Highly recommended.

Stille - Ase Teigland
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-0877)
Teigland comes from Utne in Hardanger. She is one of Norway´s talented young Hardanger fiddle players, and plays with genuine feeling and grace. She has studied with Knut Hamre, Stein Versto and Leif Rygg. On this solo CD she plays tunes in nine different tunings for the fiddle. Liner notes in Norwegian and English give the history and origin of the tunings and the tunes.

Tya - Karl Seglem and Reidar Shar
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-9717)
Reidar Skår (piano, keyboards and computers) is an innovative and creative musician, composer and producer working in his own studio in Oslo. He has participated on a numerous list of recordings with Norwegian jazz, pop and rock artists. Skår has been collaborating with Seglem for years - mainly as a studio technician, co producer and composer/arranger. Seglem (sax and horns) has been called one of Norway’s foremost saxophonists, with an original and distinctive voice and a unique ability to renew himself. They are joined by an ensemble of fiddle, guitar, accordion, voices, percussion and more in an adventurous set from 1997.

Den Blide Sol - Berit Opheim, Sigbjorn Apeland
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-0765)
Berit Opheim (voice) and Sigbjørn Apeland (church organ) present a series of traditional religious works

Rio Aga - Gabriel Fliflet
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-0874)
The Norwegian accordionist and writer is joined by a fine group of supporting musicisns: Berit Opheim (voice), Gjermund Larsen (cello, fiddle), Sondre Meisfjord (bass), Tore Bruvoll (guitars), Ånon Egeland (fiddle and jew's harp), with music by Fliflet and lyrics by Ragnar Hovland. Highly recommended.

Tur - Tromsø Kunstforsyning
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-0980)
Experimental new music from Tromso, Norway performed on cello, trombone, electronics, voice, piano and percussion.

Born to be Slow - Jon Eberson Trio
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-0983)
Norwegian guitarist Jon Eberson with vibraphonist Rob Waring and bassist Carl Morten Iverson.

Åresong - Gabriel Fliflet
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-1102)
The Norwegian singer and accordionist strikes again in 2011 accompanied by musicians like Benedicte Maurseth, Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, Stein Urheim, Per Jørgensen, on guitars, percussion, bass, horns, fiddles, voices and more. While it lacks the sheer madness of the Fliflet-Hamre recordings of the 90s, it's just as exploratory and adventurous, with a touch of romanticism. Highly recommended.

Akku - Akku
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-akku)
The trio AKKU has been inspired by the musical traditions of the North: its sounds and vocal techniques. Most of the compositions on the album include fragments of traditional music that have been adapted and further developed. Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, voice; Elfi Sverdrup, voice; Lars Andreas Haug, tuba, voice.

Cissokho System - Cissokho System
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-cissokho)
West African roots meet Norwegian jazz and popular music in a vibrant take on the mbalax style. Led by the inimitible kora wizard Solo Cissokho

Gamaltnymalt - Moldestad, Mjolsnes, Hogemo
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-gamal)
Three outstanding fiddlers developing traditions into something real new. Sigrid Moldestad, Einar Mjølsnes and Håkon Høgemo are essential performers of the Norwegian fiddle tradition, and here they present their music on the 5-string hardingfele (hardangar fiddle), creating a potent and formidable sound! This recording was awarded the Norwegian 'Spellmannprisen' in 2005.

Solo - Håkon Høgemo
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-hogemo)
Håkon Høgemo is one of the foremost fiddlers in Norway today. His unique sound and technique have lifted the art of Hardanger fiddle playing to a higher level. His solo album presents Hardanger fiddle music from some of the main areas of this tradition: Sogn, Voss, Hardanger and Valdres.

Hardangar Fiddle - Lorentz Hop
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-hop)
Back in print! Lorentz Hop lived from 1887 to 1954 and was one of Norway´s leading Hardanger fiddle players in his time. He was from Fana near Bergen. From 1930 until he died in 1954, Hop toured and played in Norway and abroad. The music dates from the 17th century. The Hardanger fiddle music from western Norway has power, strong heavy rhythms, and a very rich explorative tonality. Lorentz Hop is a sound from the past - with something to tell us, today

Fire - Isglem
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-isglem-fire)
Isglem is one of Norway´s leading groups working with freely improvised music. This recording is a duo performance by reedist Karl Seglem and percussionist Terje Isungset.

Middle of Mist - Terje Isungset
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-isun-middle)
2003 solo album by the Norwegian percussionist/sound sculptor

Gullfakse - Lars Underdal
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-lars)
Lars Underdal from Vinje in Telemark, has studied with several fiddlers and at the renowed Ole Bull Academy in Voss. He has performed at a number of folk music competitions and at concerts in Norway and abroad. His performance style is powerful and expressive. Gullfakse is a fine selection of fiddle tunes from Telemark, in the tradition of such legendary fiddlers as Myllarguten and Gibøen.

Null G - Isglem
$19.99
(cdRoots# nor-nullg)
Norwegians Terje Isunset (percussion, voice, drums) and Karl Seglem (saxophone, goat horm voice) in a 1993 recording of new routes in Norwegian rhythm and noise.

Kasta Beinet - Onkelfolke
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-onkel)
Onkelfolke is another good example of the new-folk-wave in contemporary Norway. They play new compositions based on the traditions of their home regions of Nordmøre, Rogaland and Vest-Agder, sometimes combining regional influences into something genuinely new and unique to modern Norway. Folk songs, ballads, springar, pols and halling dance tunes find a new lift in the skilled hands of these musicians playing accordion, flute, guitar, hardinfele, percussion and voices.

Eitt Steg - Berit Opheim
$18.99
(cdRoots# nor-opheim)
Back in print! - Berit Opheim sings unaccompanied Norwegian folk songs on this striking recording. The song traditions in Norway is called kveding (to «kvede» is an old wordmeaning «to sing»). It´s songs passed on for generations and deeply rooted in Norwegian musical heritage. You can hear medieval ballads, psalms, children songs, lullabys, callings and vocal improvisations on the album. The recording is done in the Stave Church at Urnes, in Sogn. The church was built about 1130 to1150, and is considered to be the oldest stave church in Norway. It´s the first time a sound recording has been done in the church.

Nye Nord - Karl Seglem
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-seglem-nye)
Karl Seglem is described as one of the most innovative musicians and composers in Norway. This 2002 release features a larger than usual ensemble in a broad and exciting sound.

Spir - Karl Seglem
$special order
(cdRoots# nor-spir)
Jazz meets folk music in a superb fusion by this Norwegian ensemble.
KARL SEGLEM Tenor saxophone, Norwegian ram horns
BERIT OPHEIM Vocals
MORTEN SÆLE El. and ac. guitars
AUDUN ERLIEN El. bass
TERJE ISUNGSET Drums and percussion, jews harp

Syng - Smakvedarane
$16.99
(cdRoots# nor-syng)
A children's choir and children soloists from the town Voss sing traditional folk tunes from Western Norway. A charming record for young and old children. Excellent musical accompaniment by a team of top Norwegian musicians make this a recording for anyone with a sense of wonder.

Tya - Karl Seglem and Reidar Skar
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-tya)
Tya is the name both of a river and a hydropower plant. The piece is dedicated to a birthplace, a childhood and an upbringing in an industrial community, and composed with the notion of water´s life-giving power (a word with a multiplicity of meanings). An extraordinary recording with music full of images.

Song - Utla
$17.99
(cdRoots# nor-utla-song)
The trio UTLA presents new aspects of sound and imaginary journeys through Norwegian landscapes. Free improvisation and deep folk roots make this a unique sound, performed on saxophones, horns, percussion and hardangar fiddle. This recording also features vocalist Berit Opheim.

Blink - Blink
$temp out of stock-18.99
(cdRoots# nor-1103)
Blink is four women from five countries who met at the Nordic Master in the Folk Music programme in Norway. Together they have travelled throughout Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland for almost two years, seeking out old traditions, creating new music, and exploring the sensitive and powerful constellation of the two strings and two voices of Johanna-Adele Jüssi (Estonia) on fiddle, vocals; Jullie Hjetland Jensen (Denmark/Norway) on vocals, autoharp; Charlotta Hagfors (Finland) on vocals, percussion and Emilia Amper (Sweden) on nyckelharpa, vocals.