Music of Norway

Terje Isungset - Igloo - $17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-igloo)
The Norwegian percussion settled into an ice hotel near the Arctic Circle, built all of his instruments out of ice, and recorded this unique and beautiful work, accompanied on some tracks by the wordless vocals of Sidsel Endresen. It does not get more unique than this!

Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars - $18.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7220)
Three Norwegian fiddlers join forces to bring the tradition to life - Ola Hilmen, Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen and Erik Sollid, joined by a full band, push the music into pop, rock, jazz and even some traditional folk songs. Listen and Listen

Sinikka Langeland - Har du lyttet til elvene om natta? - $17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-natta)
Sinikka Langeland (born 1961) is a kantele player, singer and composer from Finnskogen in eastern Norway. Her family, however is from Karelia, Finland, and this unique mix of musical cultures is the signature of her music.

Kirsten Braten Berg - Min Kvedarlund - $18.99
(cdRoots# grcd-bergmin)
A 1993 compilation of folk songs sung by one of Norway's most noted traditional singers, Kirsten Bråten Berg, sung unaccompanied or lightly accompanied by some of Norway's best musicians. This 24 track CD combines 4 earlier LP releases from 1979 through 1988 by the artist - the complete 'Min Kvedarlund' and 10 songs from her first self-titled album, 'Slinkombas' and 'Slinkombas... og bas igjen.' Accompanists include Ale Moller, Hallvard T. Bjorgum, Per Gudmundson, Gunnar Stubseid and many others.

Geitungen - Bra Kast! - $18.99
(cdRoots# grcd-geit)
A trio of fiddle, guitar and accordion from Rogaland in southwest Norway plays the traditional music of the region with straight-forward, youthful energy and a minimum of hyp and fusion. Håvard Ims (accordion), Vidar Stefán Berntsson Skrede (fiddle and hardanger) and Olav Christer Rossebø (guitar, mandolin, mandola) play it to-the-bone, from driving dances to delicate tunes.

Henricksen, Isungset, Seglem - Daa - $18.99
(cdRoots# nor-daa)
Three of the more adventurous musicians in Norway team up to create bold new music with some deep roots but ultimately with an unswerving sense of innovation and a passion for the new.

17.99 - Sinikka Langeland - $MP3-Only
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-rosa)
norway

Geitungen - Langt Ute - $17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7255)
Geitungen 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. Geitungen play the tunes in the rhythmic old style. The three musicians’ fiddles, melodeon, mandolin, hardanger fiddle, mandola and guitars make an expression that is straightforward and the music ranges from cosy, warm mazurka to hot-headed hopsars and plaintive waltzes, sometimes with elements of more contemporary popular music styles in the arrangements.

Terje Isungset - Hibernation - $17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-ice0905)
The 2009 edition of the Norwegian percussionist's "all ice" music, performed on ephemeral instruments made of ice. With Sara Marielle Gaup, Peter Paelinck, Eilif Gundersen

Unni Lovlid - Vita - $17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-lovlid)
A beautiful recording of solo voice by the Norwegian singer Unni Løvlid (a member of the ensemble Rusk), made in a remarkable crypt below a church in Norway. Phenomenal voice matched by phenomenal sonic space... it can't get much better.

various - 4th International Jew's Harp Festival - $19.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7189)
2 CD set of performances from the 4th International Jew's Harp Festival in Rauland, Norway in 2002 features artists from around the world, from Norway to North America to Vietnam to Tuva and eastern Europe. Listen!

Turid Spildo - Nykkjen - $16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7196)
Turid Spildo is best known as the vocalist and hardang fiddler from the Norwegian ensemble Dvergmål. Here she is in solo mode, singing songs from the West-coast of Norway, accompanying herself on hardanger-fiddle andorgan. The tunes were collected by a schoolteacher from Sogn og Fjordane, North-West in Norway: Olav Sande (1850-1927) in the period 1880-1904. 16 of the tunes, mostly ballads, keep the old tradition alive in this simple and lovely recording.

various - Bridges: Live In China - $16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7201)
A cross cultural concert by Norwegian and Chinese musicians: Terje Isungset (Percussion, Ice Percussion), Unni Løvlid (Vocals), Frode Haltli (Accordion), Lu Yingmei (Vocals), Wu Chuan Ping (Vocals), Pan Xin Zhi (Vocals), Wu Anhua Dongliang (Vocal, Dong Pipe and Flute, Ox-bone Fiddle, Lusheng).

Agnes Buen Garnas - Draumkvedet - $18.99
(cdRoots# kkv-garnas-draum)
Agnes Buen Garnås sings Norwegian medieval songs accompanied by flute, hardingfele, organ, saxophone and harp. With Harold Gundhus (flute and saxophone) , Knut Buen (hardingfele), Warren Cardstrom (Celtic harp) and Kare Nordstoga (organ).

Stian Carstensen - Farmers Market - $18.99
(cdRoots# wtr-farmers)
Norwegian, Bulgarian and Indian musicians find common ground in what they refer to as speed-Balkan-boogie.

Svein Westad, Durga Khatiwada, Jiwa Rai and Shyam Nepali - Meeting in the Mountain - $16.99
(cdRoots# yy-meetmount)
This album is the result of an encounter between the Norwegian folk music artist Svein Westad, and music teachers at the Nepal Music Centre in Kathmandu. In 1997, Svein was invited by the folk dance group Anam Dharan, whom he had met in North Korea some years earlier, to give a concert in Kathmandu. Before leaving Norway, he was recommended by Rikskonsertene to do a work shop with musicians at the NMC. The Nepal Music Centre is a recently finished joint project between Music Nepal in Nepal, and Rikskonsertene, sponsored by the Norwegian Agency Development Co-operation (NORAD). This meeting turned out to be so successful, that Svein invited his Nepali music colleges to join him in the concert at the Gurukul music theatre in Kathmandu. A few days later, they also recorded some of the tracks on this CD in the Music Nepal studio.The Norwegian Munnharpe and Seljefløyte are both natural scale instruments, thus seemingly different in character from the Nepali Bansuri and the Sarangi. Nevertheless, the instruments ha

Kelpie - Var det du – var det deg? - $17.99
(cdRoots# wp-87139)
Kerstin Blodig (vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán) and Ian Melrose (guitar, low whistles, seljefløyte, vocals, bouzouki, percussion, programming) combine Celtic and Scandinavian roots in a modern context. They are joined by a few other musicians on hardangar fiddle, percussion and bass on various tracks.

Iver Kleive and Aage Kvalbein - Til trøst (Comfort me) - $18.99
(cdRoots# kkv-341)
Using the Steinway grand piano in the Kulturkirken Jakob and a cello, two of Norways greatest musicians have dug deep into the world of melancholy. Kvalbein and Kleive take the listener on a journey through musical gems from classical music, traditional folk songs and well-loved ballads.

Fotefar and Håvard Lund - Fest - $18.99
(cdRoots# kkv-346)
FEST is the first CD from the folk trio Fotefar (Footprints) and clarinet player Håvard Lund. The trio is Lena Jinnegren, Bendik Lund Haanshus and Ragnhild Furebotten. Lena, from Sweden, has deep roots in rock, folk music and folk ballads. Ragnhild was nominated for the same award in 2008 for her solo CD "Endelig vals" (Finally a waltz). Bendik trained at the music conservatory in Trondheim, and plays in the group KADO and the tango music band Orangutango. Håvard is artist in residence for the cultural centre in Troms county, and now has a permanent position there as a musician, composer and arranger. He has played with the band Farmers Market, with Frode Fjellheim of Transjoik and collaborated with Trygve Seim.

Åsne Valland Nordli - Julekvad - $19.99
(cdRoots# kkv-177)
The Norwegian singer performs Nordic folk songs and traditional European religious songs for the winter holiday and Christmas, with Joakim Friis-Holm (Celtic harp); Arve Henriksen (trumpet); Paolo Vinaccia (percussion) and Elin Ødegaard (vocal improvisation).

Skruk - Starry crowns in heaven - $19.99
(cdRoots# kkv-352)
The Norwegian vocal group performs playful and exciting arrangements of American gospel and spirituals and has enlisted legendary conductor Samuel Carver Davenport from New Orleans to help refine and polish their performance of these songs. All the songs are for choir a cappella, and several arrangements are written by another legend of spirituals, Moses Hogan, a personal friend of Davenport. He writes in a dense and spectacular style, exploiting the many ways language can be used to help the music swing.

Oslo Gospel Choir - En stjerne skinner i natt - $19.99
(cdRoots# kkv-343)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the choir recorded in Oslo Concert Hall in December last year, where they gave five concerts to packed houses. This recording radiates the intimate and inspiring Christmas spirit this choir is so renowned for.he recording offers highlights from the choirs repertoire performed at Christmas concerts across Norway over their 20 years, featuring such favourites as "Glade jul" (Holy Night), "Julekveldsvisa" (Ready for Christmas Eve), "O, helga natt" (O Holy Night), Go Tell It On The Mountain, "En stjerne skinner i natt" (A Star Is Shining Tonight), written by the choir conductor Tore W. Aas, and "Mariavise" (Marys Song), written by Aas and Erik Hillestad.

Buen Garnås, Bratland, Yndestad - Når klokkune gjeve dur - $18.99
(cdRoots# kkv-nar)
Three of Norway's great singers, Agnes Buen Garnås, Sondre Bratland, Hanne Kjersti Yndestad, in solo settings or accompanied by a minimal ensemble of bass, hardingfele and flute.

Arild Andersen - Arv - $19.99
(cdRoots# kkv-arv)
Bassist Arild Andersen's epic Nordic folk and jazz fusion, with Nana Vasconcelos on percussion, Kirsten Bråten Berg on vocal, munnharpe, langeleik, and Bendik Hofseth on tenor and soprano saxophones. Recorded in 1993 - how did I miss this one all these years? Highly recommended.

Kalenda Maya - Norske Middelalderballader - $19.99
(cdRoots# kkv-082)
Medieval Norse Ballads performed with a lot of skill and verve by this quintet of Norwegian musicians - Sidsel Brevig (fiddles), Tone Hulbakækmo (voice, harp, lyre), Hans Fredrik Jacobsen (Arab lutes, flutes, bagpipe, kantele, lyre), Sverre Jansen (psaltery, mandora, hurdy-gurdy, Norwegian dulcimer), Gilles Obermayer (percussion). Recorded in 1989.

Spindel - Aminje - $12.99
(cdRoots# grcd-spindel2)
The hardangar and fiddle duo of Liv Merete Kroken and Sigrid Moldestad has expanded in 2005 to include Olav Tveitane on guitar, bass, vocals and cistern; Dagfinn Andersen on piano, trøorgel and vocal and Ivar Kolve on percussion and marimba. It's a much more agressive and modern sound that never loses sight of the Norwegian roots of the tunes.

Steinar Ofsdal and Per Midtstigen - Sjofloyta - $9.99
(cdRoots# grcd-ofsdalmid)
Norwegian flautists Ofsdal and Midtstigen explore the sjøfløyta

Honndalstausene - Frie Former - $12.99
(cdRoots# grcd-frie)
Traditional dance music from western Norway played by 7 hardangar fiddlers, all women, known as 'The women (wenches) of Hornindal.' The 2001 release, 'free forms' (frie former), is an excellent recording of the lush, full sound of the Nordic fiddle orchestra.

Hallgrim Berg and Erik Roine - Munnharpa - $12.99
(cdRoots# grcd-munnharpa)
Music for the munnharpa (mouth harp or 'jew's harp') from Norway

Tigerlily - Tigerlily - $10.99
(cdRoots# grcd-tiger)
This young Norwegian band fuses and melds folk, rock, ambient grooves and jazz into an unusual whole, driven by Elisabeth Vatn's bagpipes and clarinets, Harald Skullerud's percussion, and Olav Torget's plucked strings (including guitar, bass, banjo Senegambian konting and Chinese moon guitar).

Harnihomba - Harnihomba - $11.99
(cdRoots# grcd-harni)
Modern folk from Norway, new ararnagements of traditional songs and original pieces performed with bagpipes, clarinet, fiddle, guitars, bass, percussion and saxophones.

Various Artists - Fortal - Traditional Songs From Honindal - $16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7208)

Reiersrud, Jacobsen and Vajra - Himalaya Blues - $13.99
(cdRoots# grcd-himalaya)
Norwegian guitarist Knut Reiersrud, flute player Hans Fredrik Jacobsen and the traditional group Vajra from Nepal present a mixture of traditional Norwegian, American and Nepalese music, recorded in Katmandu.

Utla - Song - $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.

Utla - Dans - $17.99
(cdRoots# nor-dans)
The trio UTLA presents new aspects of sound and imaginary journeys through Norwegian landscapes. UTLA´s music is deeply rooted in the tradition of Hardanger fiddle playing, yet connected to urban musical impulses. UTLA presents their music honest and powerfully, combining tradition with improvisation and composition. The ultimate mix between old Norwegian music and modern sounds. Musicians: Haakon Hogemo (hardangar fiddle), Karl Seglem (sax, ram's horn) and Terje Isungset (drums, percussion, Jew's harp)

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