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  Altarstein

  «ALTARSTEIN for stille stemmer» er en videreføring av samarbeidet med Jon Fosse, tonsetting av hans tekster og oppfølging av «Wind And Sun» utgitt 2023. «ALTARSTEIN» har et helt nytt ensemble, nye klangmuligheter med cello og kantele, den unge eksperimenterende trompeteren Kristina Franson, Tone Åses vokalkunst, virtuositeten til Svante Henryson og den solide klangkunstner Ståle Storløkken på synth.

  Tittelen henspeiler på en middelaldersk alterplate av stein fra Guddal kirke i Fjaler. Utenfor kirkegården ligger en sjelden myrgravplass fra 1100-tallet, med over 200 graver — unikt i Norden. Verket hedrer disse stille stemmene, og gjenspeiler samtidig kjærlighet til livet.

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  Solokonserter Wolf Rune

  Wolf Rune, a solo album, casts a new light on the highly personal idiom of Sinikka Langeland, kantele player and folk singer from Finnskogen. She integrates her own songs among folk hymns, shamanistic rune songs and traditional dance pieces, and expands the expressive range of her instruments.

  It's a very beautiful, original, thought-provoking album, played and sung by a highly accomplished musician who's absolutely herself. — London Jazz News

  Recorded in 2019 at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Wolf Rune is an addition to Sinikka’s ECM discography. The music incorporates rune songs, spells and incantations, religious tunes and folk dances, and verses that testify to the interlinked nature of all things — from Meister Eckhart to Jon Fosse.

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  Wind And Sun

  Up to now, music to poems by Børli, Södergran, Olav H. Hauge and forest-Finnish rune songs has formed Sinikka’s core repertoire. In Jon Fosse’s poems she finds an underlying sound that resonates with her. The music is folk-based, but she also wants to bring the timeless aspect of Fosse’s poetry into our own time with musicians who use a modern form of expression. The kantele sounds almost like an orchestra in its own right.

  This ensemble was put together for the concerts celebrating Sinikka’s 60th birthday. The musicians raise the compositions with their improvisations, in concerts inspired by Fosse’s western Norwegian landscape of wind, sun, sea and sky.