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March 24, 2005

nils økland :: bris

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Borrowed Tunes hopes to become the official blog of Rune Grammofon records, a label that has singlehandedly thrust Norway's experimental music community to the forefront of world regional scenes. Germany has its microhouse and minimal techno, Canada has the Tragically Hip; Norway has a bunch of people making staggeringly beautiful music in unlikely formations.

Nils Økland is a virtuoso of the Hardanger fiddle, sometimes called the national instrument of Norway, and the principal accompaniment to liturgical music in traditional Norwegian culture. It's played in a similar way to the American country fiddle - that is to say by sawing out double-stopped chords and moving a melody over a repeated or droned pedal note - but at half or quarter speed. The fiddle has extra resonant strings that give it an eerie, brassy quality not entirely dissimilar to the tone (if not the feel) of a National steel guitar. Nils is also given credit for playing a viola d'amore, which appears to be an Italian variation on the resonant-stringed Hardanger.

On Bris, his third album (and the first I've heard), Økland moves from folk-inspired solo Hardanger pieces to ambient ensemble tracks where the fiddle's resonance blends with a breathy harmonium (a simple squeezebox instrument), double bass and abstract percussion. These bring the most arresting moments on the album, gorgeously lonesome, organic and crystalline, ice blue and deeply peaceful as the instruments swell and ebb together. The melodies, such as they exist, are modal - they make sense, but eerily so as they rely on scales shifted off of familiar centers.

Soon, we'll review an entirely different Rune Grammofon release by the confrontational outfit Shining; you'll need these serene tracks after a dose of their mayhem.

Bris (mp3)
Avminnast (mp3)

Posted by borrowed_tunes at March 24, 2005 10:42 PM

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