Linde Slagr

• 1Glimmerskyer07:24
• 2Tåke06:44
• 3Søvnløs06:04
• 4Etterglød05:05
• 5Kime03:53
• 6Legende05:15
• 7Linde02:07
• 8Voggesang02:10
• Total Runtime38:42

Info for Linde

The trio Slagr releases their sixth album Linde, made up of music created in a time of new beginnings. The music on the album is written by Katrine Schiøtt in the middle of maternity leave, giving a new touch to the trios distinctive sound. Postpartum - lack of sleep, emotional vulnerability, an extreme focus on something outside oneself; providing nourishment and love to the newborn. A minor state of emergency where small moments can inspire to musical fragments and contemplation on the beginning of life, eternity and transience. In this state, this music was conceived. Slagr’s music is detached from time, place and the concrete materiality of life.

"With strong ties to folk motifs, structures like European chamber music, and a colorful sound palette that evokes the cold north as well as the the equatorial regions that give us gamelan and marimba music, Slagr’s music is a timeless antidote to our fixation on immediate gratification and scattered attention. As the liner notes say, “Slagr is archaic, but at the same time radical.” (Gary Whitehouse, agreenmanreview.com)

Slagr

Slagr
The members of Slagr are: Anne Hytta – Hardanger fiddles Amund Sjølie Sveen – vibraphone and percussion Lars Johansen – viola da gamba and lute You have never heard anything like the music that Slagr plays. The group was founded by Anne Hytte in the summer of 2003, with the aim of exploring the possibility of combining elements of Norwegian folk music with medieval and Oriental musical traditions to generate a new, modernistic musical idiom with roots in folk music. The contrast between crisp and soft sounds that meet at the point of intersection between serenity and intensity is a distinctive element of Slagr’s music. The melodic structures that move beyond the ordinary major and minor modes, and the sounds that first collide and then merge, evoke changing colours and landscapes. The contrast between the round, gentle sound of the vibraphone and the raw, brittle nature of the Hardanger fiddle and the viola da gamba emphasizes the shifting colours of the music. “Cool. Beautiful. Absurd.” These are some of the adjectives that have been used to describe Slagr’s music. The group’s music is created primarily by Anne Hytte. Slagr also plays fiddle tunes and medieval melodies. The entire group is responsible for the arrangements, with Lars Johansen setting the tone. “It appears that ‘slagr’ was the word used in Old Norse for what we would call a tune.” – from the book “And the Fiddle Sounded” Performances: Fabrikken, Oslo Telemark International Folk Festival

This album contains no booklet.