Alvaleken, by Mats Edén

Alvaleken

by Mats Edén

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1.	Hallibakken 02:03	buy track
2.	Alvaleken 02:12	buy track
3.	Fansleken 02:09	buy track
4.	Marsch 02:01	buy track
5.	Nymåne 02:49	buy track
6.	Korphalling 02:26	buy track
7.	Vintersjöhöjden 02:25	buy track
8.	Birgittapolskan 02:52	buy track
9.	Långdans 02:35	buy track
10.	Mörkerleken 01:45	buy track
11.	Krafthalling 02:04	buy track
12.	Tre öl 03:37	buy track
13.	Guckuskoleken 02:00	buy track
14.	Omas halling 04:57	buy track
15.	Rävsvans 03:29	buy track
16.	Tobakspolskan 02:17	buy track
17.	Kvarnleken 03:04	buy track
18.	Järnsparven 02:47	buy track
19.	Huldrelek 04:07	buy track
20.	Vårspringlek 02:56	buy track
21.	Dimma 03:57	buy track

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Mats Edén - one of the most influential musicians in Scandinavian traditional music since the 70ties - presents a selection of 21 tunes from the several hundred tunes he has composed in traditional styles. His work is a rare example of a successful combination of recirculation and innovation: on the one hand many motifs sounds familiar to tunes you have heard, but then frequently in new and fresh contexts that makes you think «this is of course traditional» even if you previously never have heard it this way!
Mats made the recording with a small Zoom recorder in his home in Dalby, Sweden, and thus lets the listener be a fly on the wall in his studio.
Tellef Kvifte produced, edited and mastered the recordings on distance from his studio in Oslo; thus, a typical covid production! The album is accompanied by a pdf booklet with comments for each tune, as well as written music for the whole album.
Mats is one of the very few musicians that stylistically is equally at home in Sweden and Norway. Both as a performer and as a composer, he roams freely across the border between the two countries, as well as across the stylistic borders between districts in the two countries.
Though his work in Groupa and countless other contexts, Mats is one of the key figures in the development of the contemporary sound of traditional musics in Scandinavia, and has contributed on a large number of records. On the Taragot label, you’ll find him already on Egeland/Edén/Marin vol 1, from 2019, and in duo with Guro Kvifte Nesheim on the album Den kaldsteikte fra 2020.

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released May 17, 2021

Recorded by Mats Edén
Mixed and mastered by Tellef Kvifte
Produced by Tellef Kvifte
Taragot 34

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Mats Edén Dalby, Sweden

Mats Edén is a legendary fiddler, composer, teacher, rooted in the traditions of Värmland, Sweden. He is one of the most prominent musicians in the development of Swedish traditional music since the 70ties.

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