Traditional music from Setesdal meets world music. Annbjørg Lien, Bjørn Ole Rasch, Hallvard T. Bjørgum and more Each song has evolved into a unique musical piece with heartfelt musical meetings between 52 musicians and artists from 18 different countries. The listener is presented a window into a three-year artistic research project that has resulted in an incomparable record.
How would performers from other cultures respond musically to traditional Norwegian music from Setesdal, and how would Norwegian artists respond to the musical response from the outside world? The initiators Kirsten Bråten Berg, Sigurd Brokke, Gunnar Stubseid and Hallvard T. Bjørgum wanted to figure out how different instruments from different countries and parts of the world would affect the original material, and what tonal and rhythmical challenges and opportunities this encounter would produce in the search of a new soundscape? Every tune on the record has evolved into a unique piece of music, in many of the cases far away from the original material. What initially could seem like a stiff research project at the university has become a fabulous and innovative pioneering work that’s unparalleled.