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Grappa-Heilo
Please note!
Most of our CDs have been imported from Europe or Asia. They are not all shrink-wrapped, and I am not going to con you by wrapping them here just to make you think they have been sterilized in America. I guarantee that the CDs and the contents are all brand new and in perfect condition. Whenever I can, I use recycled shipping materials. They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
Thanks- Cliff, cdRoots
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Kyrja - Tone Hulbaekmo
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-kyrja)
Modern Norwegian folk music and traditional songs and old hymns the Østerdal valley of Norway. Tone Hulbækmo is a harpist and one of the most respected singers in the country, and her voice graces many a recording. On this CD she is accompanied by flutes, reeeds, some keyboard and acoustic piano, percussion, kantele, lutes, cello, violin and choral ensemble.
Stemmenes skygge - Braten-Berg, Mazur and Willemark
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-skygge)
Norwegian Kirsten Bråten Berg (vocals, jew's harp), Sweden's Lena Willemark (vocals, violin, viola), and Danish percussionist Marilyn Mazur join together for is going to be one of the great Nordic recordings of 2005. 'Voices' Shadow' is a pure trio recording, unadorned and yet ornate in structure, deeply rooted in tradition and yet almost avant garde in performance, and a total joy to listen to.
Bridges: Live In China - various
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7201)
A cross cultural concert by Norwegian and Chinese musicians: Terje Isungset (Percussion, Ice Percussion), Unni Løvlid (Vocals), Frode Haltli (Accordion), Lu Yingmei (Vocals), Wu Chuan Ping (Vocals), Pan Xin Zhi (Vocals), Wu Anhua Dongliang (Vocal, Dong Pipe and Flute, Ox-bone Fiddle, Lusheng).
Syng Du Mi Royst - Kirsten Braten Berg
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-bergroyst)
Kirsten Bråten Berg's 2001 recording, 'Syng Du Mi Røyst,' is a contemporary work, with an ensemble of piano, percussion, guitar, bass (Arild Andersen), hardingfele, violin, viola d'amore and bouzouki. The roots are deep, but the sound is distinctly modern. Fans of Lena Willemark's jazz and modern recordings will find this irresistible.
Rusk II - Rusk
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-rusk2)
Rusk is a Norwegian folk trio of singer Unni Lövlid, accordionist Frode Haltli and violinist/hardangar fiddler Vegar Vårdal. On their second recording (2006), they focus on the music of the southeastern part of Norway. The roots are traditional, but they play in a uniquely rough and modern style.
Fortal - Traditional Songs From Honindal - Various Artists
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7208)
Tigerlily - Tigerlily
$14.99
(cdRoots# grcd-tiger)
This young Norwegian band fuses and melds folk, rock, ambient grooves and jazz into an unusual whole, driven by Elisabeth Vatn's bagpipes and clarinets, Harald Skullerud's percussion, and Olav Torget's plucked strings (including guitar, bass, banjo Senegambian konting and Chinese moon guitar).
Himalaya Blues - Reiersrud, Jacobsen and Vajra
$15.99
(cdRoots# grcd-himalaya)
Norwegian guitarist Knut Reiersrud, flute player Hans Fredrik Jacobsen and the traditional group Vajra from Nepal present a mixture of traditional Norwegian, American and Nepalese music, recorded in Katmandu.
Anon - Anon Egeland
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-anon)
The reknowned fiddle player's 1999 Norwegian release.
Herrelaus - Yggdrasil
$out of print-out of stock
(cdRoots# grcd-ygg)
Tre Nyhus (3x Nyhus) - Sven, Ashild Breie and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-nyhus3)
Sven Nyhus (fiddle), Åshild Breie Nyhus (fiddle, viola) and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano, zither) join the family name in a wonderful trio exploration of true Norwegian 'roots,' as only a family of musicians can find them.
Aminje - Spindel
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-spindel2)
The hardangar and fiddle duo of Liv Merete Kroken and Sigrid Moldestad has expanded in 2005 to include Olav Tveitane on guitar, bass, vocals and cistern; Dagfinn Andersen on piano, trøorgel and vocal and Ivar Kolve on percussion and marimba. It's a much more agressive and modern sound that never loses sight of the Norwegian roots of the tunes.
Levende Langeleik - Various
$15.99
(cdRoots# grcd-langeleik)
A collection of artists playing the Swedish langeleik (zither)
Spindel - Moldestad and Merete Kroken
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-spindel)
Norwegian fiddlers Sigrid Moldestad and Liv Merete Kroken present a traditional repetoire for the hardangar (hardingfele) and standard fiddle, with some some accompaniment on bass, percussion and keyboards.
Fanitullen - various
$19.99
(cdRoots# grcd-fanitullen)
Norwegian and Sámi folk music is documented in 68 short recordings from the 1930s to the 1990s. It covers almost every traditional instrument, song style and melodic structure in 2 CDs (Originally released as a 2 LP set, rematered for CD) Notes in Norwegian only. Artists include Ola Brenno, Tone Hulbækmo, Herleik Stuvstad, Mikkel Kåvenes, Johannes Dahle, Peder Nyhus, Hans Brimi, Edvard Ruud, Kristian P Åsmundstad, Eivind Sigurdsson Berg and literally dozens of others.
Berg og Vatn - Per Saemund Bjorkum
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-vatn)
A super recording of Norwegian newly-composed folk music, led by violinist Per Sæmund Bjørkum, with harpist Tone Hulbækmo, organist Kåre Nordstoga, bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and fiddler Oystein Rudi, in a tribute to two central musicians from the North-Gudbrandsdalen area: Pål Skogum and fiddler-historian Torger Olstad.
Havella - Slåtter fra Nordland - Susanne Lundeng
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-havella)
Traditional Norwegian fiddle tunes, solo performances by the noted Nordic fiddler, recorded in 1991
Hardingfelespel Frå Vestre Slidre - Ola Boe
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-olaboe)
Hardangar fiddler Ola Bøe (1910-1986) lived in Vestre Slidre (western valley of Valdres in Norway). His father, a noted fiddler himself, passed on the family tradition. Ola Bøe was an exceptional dance fiddler, and won the National Championship in 1969. These recordings (issued by Heilo in 1999) were made by the national radio in the 1950s and 60s.
Konkylie - Tone Hulbaekmo
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-konk)
Tone Hulbækmo is considered to be one of Norways finest singers, and this 1995 recording is a prime example of her formidible vocal talent, a series of tradition-based original songs written by she and Hans Fredrik Jacobsen, performed in a contemporary, art-music style, accompanied by flutes, harp, bagpipes, kantele, percussion, accordion, guitar and ud.
Skrekk - Skrekk
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-skrekk)
Skrekk presents dramatic Norwegian folk music. Two singers, Tone Juve and Camilla Granlien, accompany themselves on double bass and cello, while Åse Teigland enhances the atmosphere with her fiddling. The members of the group are intrigued by the powerful stories and melodies of the old broadside ballads popular in the 1800s, and served the same purpose as today’s tabloid press. The tales they related were often dramatic: crimes committed in the heat of passion, ghost stories, robberies and tragic love stories were depicted in a direct and detailed fashion, often with a moral at the end. The group brightens up the mood of its concerts with amusing or lyrical songs, usually accompanied in sparse, often quite unusual instrumental settings that act as an often literal soundtrack to the stories.
Langt innpa skoga - Sinikka Langeland
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-skoga)
On this 1994 recording Sinikka accompanies her voice with the kantele on a series of more traditional tunes, accompanied by accordion, fiddle, kanteles, acoustic bass and horns.
Spel - Bukkene Bruse
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-bukkene04)
Selected live recordings from the group's '03 Norwegian national tour features some guest appearances by the classical string quartet Vertavo, joining Lien and her ensemble in a new series of adventurous interpretations of traditioanal and original Nordic music.
Nattsang - Jon Anders Halvorsen and Tore Bruvoll
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-nattsang)
Night Song' is the debut recording by Jon Anders Halvorsen and guitarist Tore Bruvoll. This album consists mostly of Norwegian mediveal folk ballads, but with some modern twists reflecting guitar player Bruvoll's diverse musical background. This is a special order CD.
Stjerneklang - Sinikka Langeland - Andreas Liebig
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-stjern)
Sinikka Langeland sings folk songs and improvises with Andreas Liebig, who performs on the historic Wagner-organ (1741) in Nidaros Cathedral, in Trondhjem, Norway. They present Bach's organ chorales for Christmas in a unique and passionate way.
Håstaboe slåttar - Knut Hamre, Åse Teigland and Frank Rolland
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-har3)
Another beautiful set of solos, duets and trios from the Norwegian hardangar fiddle tradition, performed to perfection by three of Norways most respected traditional fiddlers. This recording focuses on the work of the respected old fiddler, Ola Håstabø (1826-99) and was recorded in honor of the 100th anniversary of his passing.
Blamman - Blamann Blamann
$15.99
(cdRoots# grcd-blammann)
Blåmann Blåmann is a group of four musicians from Vinje in Telemark. They primarily play the old traditional folk music of their area, but their arrangements are also influenced by newer pop music. Their repertory spans several different folk music types, including ballads from the Middle Ages, lyrical pieces, springar and gangar dance tunes, slåttestev (short songs based on fiddle tunes), and ballad melodies. Their music-making is unpretentious, but at the same time they take care to arrange their material so that the original core is preserved. Blåmann Blåmann’s goals are to play well, have fun, and give their audience a top-quality musical experience.
Curing Norwegian Stiffness - CNS (Chateau Neuf spelemannslag)
$14.99
(cdRoots# grcd-cns-stiff)
2001 release is a mix of music 'for all ages' with that classic CNS sound
Ballader Pa Vandring - Det Syng!
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-detsyng)
Norwegian singers Eli Storbekken, Sinikka Langeland, Halvor Hakanes, Agnes Buen Garnas and Anne Marit Jakobsen
Frie Former - Honndalstausene
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-frie)
Traditional dance music from western Norway played by 7 hardangar fiddlers, all women, known as 'The women (wenches) of Hornindal.' The 2001 release, 'free forms' (frie former), is an excellent recording of the lush, full sound of the Nordic fiddle orchestra.
Munnharpa - Hallgrim Berg and Erik Roine
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-munnharpa)
Music for the munnharpa (mouth harp or 'jew's harp') from Norway
Runarstreng - Braten-Berg and Bjorgum
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-runastreng)
Kirsten Bråten Berg Og Hallvard T. Bjørgum present dance tunes, ballads, stev (short improvised songs), and psalms from Setesdal, Norway. The vocals are accompanied by munneharpe (Jew's harp), hardingfele. Both arrtists are known for their global experiments and wide-ranging interests, but this recording from 1999 marks a return to the roots for both, in 16 direct folk songs from their home. Solo vocals, solo fiddle pieces, duets for voice and fiddle and one munneharpe harp duet make this an excellent CD for those who like their folk music straight.
Rusk - Rusk (Unni Løvlid, Vegar Vårdal, and Frode Haltli)
$16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-rusk)
Norwegian folk music from the area Solør and Finnskogen. Traditional dance music, songs and psalms in new arrangements. Singer Unni Løvlid, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal and harmonium and accordionist Frode Haltli.
Lille Rosa (Kjaerlighetsballader) - Sinikka Langeland
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-rosa)
Singer and kantele player from Norway performs love songs and medieval ballads
Vind (Wind) - Hans Fredrik Jacobsen
$17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-vind)
Norwegian flute sax and kantele player and his ensemble alternate between jaunty folk tunes and electro-expermiments, always centered on the 'wind' of the title in Norwegian folk tunes, Celtic and new age inspirations and some downright southern American feel on a few tracks. Instuments include guitar, percussion, bagpipes, nyckleharpa, harp and synths provided by Annbjorg Lien, Knut Reiersrud, Tome Hulbaekmo and Frode Fjellheim.
Igloo - Terje Isungset
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-igloo)
The Norwegian percussion settled into an ice hotel near the Arctic Circle, built all of his instruments out of ice, and recorded this unique and beautiful work, accompanied on some tracks by the wordless vocals of Sidsel Endresen. It does not get more unique than this!
Runoja - Sinikka Langeland
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-runoja)
This album pushes Sinikka closer to modern jazz and the avant garde than her previous recordings. Using her voice and kantele, with her Norwegian and Finnish traditions as the starting point, she works with an ensemble of bass, percussion and trumpet to create a dynamic new sound for the runic songs that are at the heart of her work.
Visor Og Kvæde Frå Blåberglandet - Dvergmal
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-4121)
1996 recording by thereknowned Norwegian folk ensemble Dvergmål, the home base for some of Norway's best: Jon Anders Halvorsen (voice, harmonium), Marit Mattisgard (voice, langeleik), Øyonn Groven Myhren (voice, lyre, seljefløyte) and Turid Spildo (voice, hardingfele).
Meisterspel - various
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-meisterspel)
Twenty-three 'masters' of hardingfele recorded between 1937 and 1997 including Hauk Buen, hallvard Bjørgum, Leif Rygg, Knut Hamre, Håkon Høgemo, Odd Bakkerud, Ola Boe, Eivind Mo, Torleiv Bolstad, Alf Tveit, Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa and more. Notes in English and Norwegian.
Min Kvedarlund - Kirsten Braten Berg
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-bergmin)
A 1993 compilation of folk songs sung by one of Norway's most noted traditional singers, Kirsten Bråten Berg, sung unaccompanied or lightly accompanied by some of Norway's best musicians. This 24 track CD combines 4 earlier LP releases from 1979 through 1988 by the artist - the complete 'Min Kvedarlund' and 10 songs from her first self-titled album, 'Slinkombas' and 'Slinkombas... og bas igjen.' Accompanists include Ale Moller, Hallvard T. Bjorgum, Per Gudmundson, Gunnar Stubseid and many others.
Two Moons - Terje Isungset
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-twomoons)
The second recording of "all ice" music from the Norwegian percussionist, this time joined by Per Jørgensen on vocal and ice trumpe, with Isungset on ice percussion, icehorn and isofon. Absolutely unique; beautiful, surprising and highly recommended.
4th International Jew's Harp Festival - various
$temp out of stock-19.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7189)
2 CD set of performances from the 4th International Jew's Harp Festival in Rauland, Norway in 2002 features artists from around the world, from Norway to North America to Vietnam to Tuva and eastern Europe. Listen!
Endless Songs From Bhutan - Jigme Drukpa
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-drukpa)
This artist from Bhutan (based in Norway at the time of this recording) plays traditional instruments like the dra-nyen (lute), yangshin (hammered zither), dong lim and zur lim (flutes) and kong-tha (bamboo mouth harp), and sings the two most common secular styles in Bhuta, secular music, zhung-dra and bö-dra. As far as I know, this is the only recording available of music from Bhutan.
Bra Kast! - Geitungen
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-geit)
A trio of fiddle, guitar and accordion from Rogaland in southwest Norway plays the traditional music of the region with straight-forward, youthful energy and a minimum of hyp and fusion. Håvard Ims (accordion), Vidar Stefán Berntsson Skrede (fiddle and hardanger) and Olav Christer Rossebø (guitar, mandolin, mandola) play it to-the-bone, from driving dances to delicate tunes.
Har du lyttet til elvene om natta? - Sinikka Langeland
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-natta)
Sinikka Langeland (born 1961) is a kantele player, singer and composer from Finnskogen in eastern Norway. Her family, however is from Karelia, Finland, and this unique mix of musical cultures is the signature of her music.
Vita - Unni Lovlid
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-lovlid)
A beautiful recording of solo voice by the Norwegian singer Unni Løvlid (a member of the ensemble Rusk), made in a remarkable crypt below a church in Norway. Phenomenal voice matched by phenomenal sonic space... it can't get much better.
Rosa i Botnen (CD and DVD) - Knut Hamre and Benedicte Maurseth
$temp out of stock-19.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7206)
A CD and DVD set of traditional hardangar music from Norway, performed by a group of some of the country's best musicians: Nils Økland (Hardanger Fiddle, Fiddle, Viola D'amore), Benedicte Maurseth (Hardanger Fiddle), Knut Hamre (Hardanger Fiddle), Håkon Mørch (Percussion) and Sigbjørn Apeland (Organ).
Seljefloyta - Ofsdal/Berg/Jacobsen
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-selj)
Well-known Norwegian artists Steinar Ofsdal, Hallgrim Berg and Hans Fredrik Jacobsen expore the sound of the seljefløyta, the willow flute, in a recording of solo folk pieces recorded in 1997.
Til Telemark - Sigmund Groven
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-groven95)
Harmonica is not the first instrument to enter most mnds when Norwegian music is mentioned, but Groven is at least allowing it to make the long list with his remarkable work on the instrument. On To Telemark he is joined by many supporting musicians including Iver Kleive on organ, Per Sæmund Bjørkum on violin, Anne Vada on vocals and many others on piano, keyboards, flute, saxophones, clarinet and more.
Kamma No - Tone Hulbaekmo
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-kamma)
Vocalist and harpist Hulbækmo is joined by Hans-Fredrick Jacobsen (reeds and flutes) and Arild Plassen (violin) on this 1999 release of Nordic folk music.
Strengen var ad rode guld - Sinikka Langeland
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-sinikka-stren)
Medieval ballads from Norway
Svevende jord (Floating Earth) - Tone Hulbaekmo
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# grcd-tonesvev)
Modern Norwegian folk music and traditional songs by famed singer and haprist Hulbækmo and an ensemble that includes Hans Fredrik Jacobsen , Iver Kleive
Nykkjen - Turid Spildo
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-7196)
Turid Spildo is best known as the vocalist and hardang fiddler from the Norwegian ensemble Dvergmål. Here she is in solo mode, singing songs from the West-coast of Norway, accompanying herself on hardanger-fiddle andorgan. The tunes were collected by a schoolteacher from Sogn og Fjordane, North-West in Norway: Olav Sande (1850-1927) in the period 1880-1904. 16 of the tunes, mostly ballads, keep the old tradition alive in this simple and lovely recording.
Song i himmelsalar - Dvergmal
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# grcd-dvergmal)
Dvergmål is the Norwegian folk quartet of Jon Anders Halvorsen (voice, harmonium), Marit Mattisgard (voice, langeleik), Øyonn Groven Myhren (voice, lyre, seljefløyte) and Turid Spildo (voice, hardingfele)
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