Gáman - Early & Late: Music from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands (2013) / AvaxHome

Traditional Nordic folk music with roots in the Middle Ages meets three new compositions by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (b. 1932), Sunleif Rasmussen (b. 1961) and Rune Glerup (b. 1981) on this CD debut of the Danish trio Gáman. The rare combination of drum songs from Greenland, chain-dances from the Faroe Islands, wedding music from the island of Fanø and new sounds by three living composers becomes an opportunity to dance, listen and immerse yourself in worlds of sound that surprisingly and enrichingly elucidate one another.

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The contemporary works Just as you can sense the dance steps and song in the Faroese folk tunes, the Faroese landscape can be felt in Faroese-born Sunleif Rasmussen’s Accvire. The title is a concatenation of the English names of the three instruments: Accordion, Violin and Recorder. “It’s just landscape music!” says Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen. “The Faroese landscape and the VERY change-able weather. In five minutes you can pass from the loveliest sunshine to lashing rain. And then there’s fog, and then a storm. At least the music evokes very specific, clear land-scape images in us. When you have a spectacular landscape like that of the Faroes, it rubs off on the art.” Rune Glerup’s work has the French title objets/décalages, which means objects/time shifts. The work is built up of five different parts – A, B, C, D, E – and Bolette Roed says: “Rune Glerup’s idea was that you hear the parts differently depending on what comes before and after. So the five parts are repeated but presented in different orders, so that they appear in different contexts.” Both Sunleif Rasmussen’s and Rune Glerup’s works have been in the ensemble’s repertoire since 2008, while Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s Together or Not is of more recent date. It was commissioned for Gáman’s concert at the Other Minds festival in San Francisco, where they also performed among other pieces Accvire. “In terms of sound Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has challenged our instrument combination in Together or Not,” says Bolette Roed. Andreas Borregaard adds, “We have our separate sound-worlds that are very far from one another. And presumably the title says that the three worlds perhaps nevertheless hang together.”

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Scandinavian music never ceases to excite, at least this listener. In both today's shares we have small ensembles giving inspiring performances of contemporary as well as traditional (as on this CD) pieces. Bolette Roed on recorder is part of both ensembles - Gaman and Alpha. While contrast between folk tunes and modern works may be jarring to some listeners, they do speak to each other in some unexpected ways. The sonic quality of the recording is exemplary.

Track List:

1. DANISH TRAD. Two Svabo Polonaises
2. RUNE GLERUP (b. 1981): object/décalages (2007)
3. GREENLANDIC TRAD. Tornge’s Song (Qaanaaq)
4. PELLE GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN (b. 1932): Together or Not (2012)
5. GREENLANDIC TRAD. Qivittoq-song after Jakob Dorph (Nanortalik)
6. FAROESE TRAD. Ormurin Langi + Regin Smiður
7. DANISH TRAD. Three Bridal Pieces from Sønderho
8. SUNLEIF RASMUSSEN (b. 1961): Accvire (2008)
9. FAROESE TRAD. Brestiskvæði
10. GREENLANDIC TRAD. Traditional song (Ikerasak)
11. FAROESE TRAD. Goodnight and Farewell

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