Artist : Svalastog
Title : Woodwork
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2006
Date : Sep-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Rune Grammofon RCD 2056
Source : CDDA
Length : 45:29 min
Size : 63,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.the wood metal friction 05:13
02.snow tracer 06:25
03.reconnecting joints 04:53
04.mouse tracking 05:58
05.centerline reminder 04:18
06.reforestation 04:27
07.cow goat goat 03:17
08.slow blowing wireless 03:59
09.white oak white pine 03:48
10.rework and out 03:11
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45:29 min
True story, as told by Per Henrik Svalastog himself:
"I found an old Norwegian zither laying around my
grandfather┤s barn in the mountains. It appeared that he
had been a fiddler before he lost all his fingers at the
sawmill and convertet to become a hardcore pietist setting
down a prohibition against music, dancing, card-playing and
television. That made me want to convert as well, from
digital medias to real playing. From electronica to folk
music. Back to the sources. Heritage and environment."
So it goes that Per Henrik is playing and improvising on
archaic folk instruments like the ram's horn and harpeleik,
which is a Norwegian zither. He is then processing it all
in the computer, resulting in a detailed and accomplished
but soothing and quite hypnotic music.
Taking the music out of the city and into the Norwegian
woods, and not the arctic regions, as is the popular image
if you come from Troms° and is associated with electronic
music.
Per Henrik Svalastog is also a member of Information who
released the excellent "Biomekano" (RCD2024) on Rune
Grammofon in 2002. The previous year he did a stunning
SPUNK remix for their "Filtered Through Friends" collection
(RCD2022), a track that is also available on the "Until
Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown" vinyl box set.
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