Lasse Sörlin, GregerBrändström, Ale Möller and Mats Berglund
Härjedalspipan
17.99
Traditional Swedish music for the wooden flute called härjedalspipa.
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Info from the record label: "Härjedalspipa" is a kind of wooden whistle from Härjedalen in northwestern Sweden, with a unusual, sweet sound. Before this recording was made this instrument was very little known, but here Ale shows how it can be used today. Indeed, this recording has sparked a new interest in this whistle.
The "härjedalspipa" has a special timbre and also its own special tonality, and Ale plays both the traditional form of this instrument and also a variety which has been made to play a "normal" scale. The "härjedalspipa" was traditionally a solo instrument, but here it is also played together with fiddles and zither.
| "...multi-instrumentalist ÅLE MöLLER and company explore the härjedalspipan, the folk flute of the Härjedals region. Möller is joined by instrument maker Oskar Olofsson, regular compadre, fiddler Mats Berglund and local fiddlers Greger Brändström and Lasse Sörlin. They not only sought out recordings and written records of these old tunes, but found manuscripts describing the instruments, and reconstructed these old flutes as well. There are solo flute songs in the tradition, but also modern arrangements for fiddle and flute. A bonus on the album are a number of recordings from the 30s and 40s of flute player Olof Jönsson, one of the last of the old school, and part of the inspiration for this album." - CF, Dirty Linen |
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