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After two years as a band, the up-and-coming folk-rock band, Gangar finally releases their first EP! Gangar combines folk music with jazz, metal, and rock in the most natural way. They find old traditional tunes in folk music archives and arrange them with inspiration from bands such as Hoven Droven, AC\/DC and Meshuggah.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cNorwegian folk rock has been down and out ever since G\u00e5te was cool. Finally, someone has done something about it! Nice, cool and fun, Gangar has everything. If they don\u2019t make you happy, you are an angry person\u201d<\/span><\/i> \u2013 Tuva Syvertsen<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTre Danser\u00bb refers to the three tunes on the EP and to Gangar\u2019s signature dance, \u201cThe Tree Dance\u201d, where you lock your legs, lift your arms, and sway like a tree with the wind.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The three tunes show the broad musical spectrum in Gangar\u2019s repertoire, from the heavily arranged heavy metal composition \u201cFjellets melodi\u201d, after Ola L\u00f8seth (Rindal, M\u00f8re og Romsdal, 1897-1978), to a tune rocking like a merciless freight train, \u201cReinlender fra \u00c5seral\u201d, after Gunnar Austegard (\u00c5seral, Vest-Agder, 1884-1973). \u201cGammel vals fra Rindalen\u201d consists of a beautiful and sweet melody in contrast to a hard and mean riff, meaning that you have to listen very carefully to realize that it is a waltz.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Front person and fiddle player Mattias Thedens grew up in a folk music family, having played Norwegian and American folk music since he was 9 years old. Saxophonist Oskar Lindberget is firmly planted in jazz tradition, despite his young age he has contributed to no less than 18 recordings. Guitarist Richard Max has a background as a drummer and hardcore fan of prog metal, he\u2019s the cause of the syncopated rhythms and guitar riffs with heavy distortion. Drummer Henrik Dullum grew up with rock music, first time exposed to folk music when he moved to the big city Oslo from Trondheim. Bassist Jonas Thrana Jensen has a basis in popular music and rock, finding Gangar to peek his interest to explore the folk music traditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>\u00abTo headbang to three different traditional tunes, is something I never thought I would do\u201d \u2013 bassist Jonas Thrana Jensen<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gangar has made a wide impression on the live scene in Norway and abroad the last few years. From being the opening act for Hoven Droven\u2019s 30 years release concert in 2021, they went on to make a convincing show case at Nordic Folk Alliance in Gothenburg 2022. This brought them to Delsbost\u00e4mman (SE), Viljandi Folk Music Festival in Estonia, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in the Netherlands, Live at Heart in \u00d6rebro (SE), Osafestivalen, In November 2022 they will have their (no less than) third performance at Folkelarm, Oslo! In February 2023, they will also play at the esteemed show case festival Folk Alliance International in Kansas, US.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The future of Norwegian folk-rock is here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[35],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40016","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-heilo","7":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","8":"uni_main_artist_tag-gangar","9":"uni_artist_genre-folkrock","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-variable","17":"has-default-attributes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=40016"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=40016"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=40016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h4>\n