The debut album from this project from Norway.
The project included eight musicians with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, fiddle, keyboards, woodwinds and voices.
This album is a strange one. It was released by the record label Mai back in 1975 on LP. A new updated version with extra tracks was then released in 2015. The original 1975 version was then re-released on CD six years later, in 2021 through the NAKCD series. A series of Norwegian re-releases who has released 680 albums.
The music here is old folk music from one of the central valleys in Norway, a 400 km long valley in the east of Norway towards the border to Sweden. That valley had/has a rich cultural and music scene.
Participating musicians like Jan Garbarek then took this music and added a lot of jazz to the folk music. A bit of a novel way of approaching this music, indeed.
There are a lot of trumpets and saxophones on this thirty-seven minutes long album. The music is very eclectic throughout with some intense jazz at times.
This is indeed a weird, eclectic album. It is also a decent album which is more of a jazz workout than anything else. If eclectic jazz is your thing....
2 points
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