- country:Norway
- region:Crete
- style(s):Early World Music, Early Music
- label:Hush Music
- type:Quartet
- gender:female
- instrumentation:string
- artist posted by:Musikkprofil Booking & Managment
Line up
- Anne Hytta (Hardanger Fiddle)
- Eléonore Billy (Nyckelharpa)
- Kelly Thoma (Cretan Lyra)
- Sigrun Eng (Cello)
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Tokso is an ensemble consisting of four musicians and composers, and was established after a concert project at the Mela Festival in Oslo 2008. Their repertoire consists exclusively of their own compositions performed with virtuosity and musicality, accenting the freshness of new creation and the freedom of innovation. They make extended use of improvisation as well as of various techniques inspired by the traditions from which they come from, as well as utilizing techniques of their own invention.
The Norwegian hardanger fiddle, the cello, the Swedish nyckelharpa and the Cretan lyra are all four played with a bow, but traditionally, they neither share a common repertoire nor are they ever used together in the same orchestra. However, in Tokso, thanks to the personalities of the musicians involved, the instruments bind together in an astonishingly harmonious way in a group sound of remarkable coherence which immediately impresses the listener with its maturity and depth. Tokso means bow in Greek.