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- country:Norway
- region:Agder
- style(s):Scandinavian, Baroque
- label:Taragot sounds
- type:Duo
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental
- artist posted by:From Sweden Productions
Line up
- Ånon Egeland (Fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, Jew´s harp)
- Mikael Marin (viola, violino grande)
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Dark, slow, intense, deep-pitched duetting, on hardingfele very unusually tuned an octave down, and electric viola similarly plunged to octave-low register, in ‘sorrowful tunes to make your heart sing’ - these are the melodies of songs, from living tradition, hymn-books and manuscripts, of sadness as melancholy as the plover’s cry, love lost, farewell, the transience of life, and ‘bottomless baroque mystery.'
Norway’s Ånon Egeland has a distinguished, open-minded and multifaceted career in traditional music and the inspiring communication of its skills and knowledge to new generations. Mikael Marin is the viola player with the very well-known Swedish trio – recently become a duo – Väsen. In live performances of this project the two of them, with grey beards and dressed in retro suits and hats, appear like ghosts from another time.
If the concept might seem not the best recipe for a jolly time, well, it’s certainly not smile-and-scrape uptempo levity. But there are so many fiddle albums that, fine as they are, can blur into a degree of genericness, while this one inhabits its own slow-churning, thoughtful and rather beautiful world of meaningful melodies.