Draupner / cdRoots

The new Draupner CD (August, 2003) - Arvet

Two young fiddlers and a guitarist/mandolist offer music of "tradition and renewal," as they call it. Henning Andersson (fiddle), Göran Antonsson (standard fiddle and 5-string fiddle) and Tomas Lindberg (guitar and mandola) deliver unadorned and exciting music, new and old, from Hälsingland, Sweden.

Listen:
Ante Sundin
Polska efter Blind-Pelle
1984
Egotrippen

Full notes in Swedish and English

"They have the ability to get to the core of a melody, be it traditional or newly composed, and bring out its essence. They do it with arrangements that eschew complexity in favor of character. It all has a lively pulse and sweep." - Peggy Latkovich, RootsWorld

Information from the record label:
Apart from Dalecarlia, Hälsingland is surely the Swedish province that has fostered some of the country's most renowed folk musicians. Prominent figures such as Jon Erik Hall, Jon Erik Öst and Hultknäppen from nothern Hälsingland and Eric Ljung and the Härdelin family in Delsbo. From Olle and others from the valley of the river Ljusnan, just to mention a few...

These great musicians have worthy successors in the group Draupner, whose members hail from Järvsö and Mörtsjö. Fiddlers Görgen Atonsson and Henning Andersson, together with guitarist Tomas Lindberg from Uppland, had a smash breakthrough at the Musik Direkt National Festival in 1995. This is Sweden's biggest competition for young musicians, and Draupner took home several prizes. Already then many people were fascinated by the boys' vigorous and inimate ensemble playing.

Since then the boys from Hälsingland have played for the King and Queen at the solemn opening of the Swedish Parliament and have made quite a few appearances in Sweden and abroad. The latest occasion was in Greenland, where Draupner represented Sweden at the island's first folk musik festival. The fourth player, Lars Öst, has moved to France, so when Draupner now appears with its first CD it is as a trio. With Görgen's and Henning's energetic fiddling, and with Tomas' striking guitar playing.

The pieces are a glorious assortment of traditional tunes from all over Hälsingland as well as a number of the group's own compositions. An excellent mixture of this province's impressive music from past and present. A mixture showing us that Hälsingland's folk music traditions are just as alive and in at least as good hands now as in olden days.

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