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01. SVALASTOG - The wood metal friction
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02. SVALASTOG - Snow tracer
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03. SVALASTOG - Reconnecting joints
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04. SVALASTOG - Mouse tracking
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05. SVALASTOG - Centerline Reminder
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06. SVALASTOG - Reforestation
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07. SVALASTOG - Cow goat goat
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08. SVALASTOG - Slow blowing wireless
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09. SVALASTOG - White oak white pine
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10. SVALASTOG - Rework and out
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ARTIST
SVALASTOG
TITLE
Woodwork
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
RUNE GRAMMOFON
CATALOG #
RCD 2056CD
RCD 2056CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/28/2006
This is the second full-length release by Tromsø, Norway (hometown of
Biosphere
,
Alog
,
Bel Canto
and
Röyksopp
) native
Per Henrik Svalastog
. Performed on Harpeleik (Norwegian zither), Bukkehorn (ram's horn) and Kuhorn (cow's horn). 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 converted 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
." Per Henrik is actually playing and improvising on archaic folk instruments like the ram's horn and harpeleik, and then processing them into 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 Tromsø and are associated with electronic music. This project was started with his first album
Silencer
, released by Beatservice in 2005 and called "
a work of hushed splendour
" in
The Wire
. Here it has been developed further into near perfection.
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