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Folk

by Håkon Thelin

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Ottar Kåsa: Fela er spelemannens songrøyst 00:37
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Håkon Thelin: El Bajo Cantaor 07:57
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Ingfrid Breie Nyhus: Tradering 02:19
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Luciano Berio: Sequenza XIVb 13:01
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Unni Løvlid: Kvilesteinen 01:10
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Lars-Petter Hagen: Hymn 05:41
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Sarah Ludwig-Simkin: Atlas 01:01
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Stefano Scodanibbio: Geografia amorosa 09:12
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Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen: Ikaros i mikrokosmos 00:57
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Håkon Thelin: Melodía (solo en el sueno) 06:45
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Håkon Thelin: Tablón-Táctil-Pulsar-Sonar 03:24
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about

Folk is the continuation of a project that began with my previous solo album Light (winner of a Norwegian Grammy in 2012), where I reflect on a musical language which I call 'a folk music for the double bass'. On Folk, the framework consists of three virtuoso works that reflect the timbre, texture and technique of flamenco music.

The other works on the CD are composed by Luciano Berio, Lars-Petter Hagen and Stefano Scodanibbio. Luciano Berio’s monumental Sequenza XIVb, in Stefano Scodanibbio’s reinvented version for bass, has musical references to flamenco music as well as drumming traditions of Sri Lanka. The Sequenza is one of the highlights within the contemporary repertoire for bass. Lars-Petter Hagen wrote Hymn as a listening-tune for bass, in what he describes as non-existent folk music for an enormous, fictitious fiddle. Geografia amorosa by Stefano Scodanibbio explores the rhythmic and percussive possibilities of the double bass, which “in this terrain proves to be a "magical instrument", in that it unites the achievements of the tradition of music for string instruments with the innovations, the disturbances, the openings (or ’openness’) of improvised music outside of the settlements of high culture (Stefano Scodanibbio)".

The music on Folk is coupled with texts written and read by Ottar Kåsa, Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, Unni Løvlid, Sarah Ludwig Simkin and Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen. The texts reflect upon the identity of music, musician and instrument, its tradition and future, and sometimes providing deeply personal artistic associations with these.

The album cover is an artwork in itself: created exclusively for this release by Norwegian painter Helge Røed.

credits

released November 3, 2022

Cover painting by Helge Røed

Music recorded in Hoff church, østre Toten on the 3rd-4th April and 26th-27th September 2013

Voice tracks recorded at various locations

Produced by Håkon Thelin

Recorded, mixed and mastered by cato Langnes and Håkon Thelin
Mixed and mastered at Studio Nordheim, NOTAM, Oslo

Executive producer Kristian Skaarbrevik

Cover design by geir Esben Østbye

CD released by Atterklang, 2015

Released with support from Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere and NOTAM

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Music released by Norwegian bass player and composer Håkon Thelin /// Peninsula Audio Records - label for experimental double bass music

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