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Nordan is a respectful sampling of sacred Swedish folk music, whereby Ale Möller shows off his strengths as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger for a record label that fits him like a glove: the equally chilling and crisp ECM from Germany. The album showcases material laid down hundreds (if not thousands) of years earlier, tapping the veins of medieval folklore as it speaks through the voice of the fisherman's wife, the exiled brother, the shepherd, the knight, and various other historical archetypes. Lena Willemark fuels these various tall tales with a gorgeous voice and accomplished fiddle playing, along with an ensemble of half a dozen other musicians. Her playing smolders at various points on the disc (but especially so on the brief instrumental "Jemsken"). In addition, it almost goes without saying that Manfred Eicher further serves the material with his faithfully minimalist production values, emphasizing the natural sounds of the dulcimer, accordion, mandolas, percussion, drone fiddles, and double bass. Consequently, the music has a timelessness to it, and a legitimacy that would certainly perish if there were any attempts to make it "hip" (perhaps the alto saxophone would be the only guilty party). The disc closes simply and beautifully with "Drömspår -- Efterspel," a prayer on Möller's accordion that drifts under the northern lights, somewhere out at sea. Its impact lays in its simplicity. By playing it straight, Nordan preserves something more intimate than history -- it revives the thinning fires of legend and myth. ~ Glenn Swan

Recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway in December 1993.

Personnel: Lena Willemark (vocals, fiddle); Ale Moller (mandola, dulcimer, harp, flute, accordion, cows-horn, shawm); Mats Eden (fiddle, kantele); Per Gudmundson (fiddle, Swedish bagpipes); Jonas Knutsson (saxophone, percussion); Palle Daielsson (double bass); Tina Johansson, Bjorn Tollin (percussion).

Musician (12/94, p.98) - "...Willemark's rich, expressive voice conveys the same kind of passion and incandescence that Clannad's Maire Brennan delivers....the real strength is Moller and the other instrumentalists, who use a jazzy sense of interplay and texture to flesh out these tartly tuneful folk melodies..."
 
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List Price $18.98 (You save $3.43)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, International, Swedish
Label ECM
Orig Year 1994
All Time Sales Rank   327909  
CD Universe Part number 1178821
Catalog number 523161
Discs 1
Release Date Jun 06, 2000
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Manfred Eicher
Engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug
Recording Time 65 minutes
Personnel Bjorn Tollin - percussion
Tina Johansson
Ale Moller - mandola, dulcimer, harp, flute, accordion, cows-horn, shawm
Jonas Knutsson - saxophone, percussion
Lena Willemark - vocals, fiddle
Mats Eden - fiddle, kantele
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