"HARPAPHONICS" - GRISELDA SANDERSON

• artist:GRISELDA SANDERSON
• featured artist:GRISELDA SANDERSON
• region:Scotland
• release year:2008
• style(s):Folk
• country:United Kingdom
• formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
• record posted by:Waulk Records
• label:Waulk Records
• publisher:Waulk Music
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Harpaphonics is an exploration of the unusual Swedish instrument, the nyckelharpa, a bowed keyed fiddle. Griselda invites guests such as Max Moya Wirght of Ojos do Brujo to share in this celebration with a set of original compositions and traditional folk tunes from northern Europe. The influences occasionally drift further south into North and West Africa, especially on the track Irime where Ghanaian percussionist Samuel Yeboah adds his Ewe influence.

'With its ornate curves and multiple strings and keys, the Swedish nyckelharpa makes Jimmy Page’s double-necked guitar look like a ukulele…Griselda tames the unwieldy beast and deliver’s enthralling performances'
Clive Davis, The Sunday Times

‘Like a hurdy gurdy played with a bow, the 16-string nyckelharpa is a traditional keyed fiddle, little heard outside its native Sweden. Scottish instrumentalist, sound artist and musicologist Gris Sanderson makes it the focus of her latest imaginative ensemble, and creates a brave new music derived in part from the traditional sounds of Scotland, Sweden and West Africa. Unusual tunings, fingered strings, slaps and dynamic changes add to the already vast sonic armoury (sheep in 'Treadlightly'!) in this rich and varied album.’
Norman Chalmers, Scotland on Sunday, 15 February 2009
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Produced by Griselda this album was released on her Waulk Records label.