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Great new album from Norway\u00b4s foremost bluegrass band<\/p>\n
Earlybird Stringband is one of Norway\u2019s foremost bluegrass bands. On the band\u2019s first Norwegian-language album, LassoFolk, the musicians delve deeply into the Norwegian treasure trove of folk music, and serve us Norwegian folk music with an old-time bluegrass flavour. LassoFolk was recorded live in an old house. The entire album was recorded with stereo microphone equipment and with limited use of effects. \u201cWe have tried to reduce the number of elements separating the instrument from the listener as much as possible.\u201d The sound on this recording is the sound of a log cabin, not a reverb machine. The members of the band have discovered unique Norwegian tunes from different parts of the country, which have a wide range of tonalities and rhythms. They also present their own version of an early song by Lillebj\u00f8rn Nilsen, \u201cDanse ikke gr\u00e5te n\u00e5\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Earlybird Stringband is one of Norway\u2019s foremost bluegrass bands. On the band\u2019s first Norwegian-language album, LassoFolk, the musicians delve deeply into the Norwegian treasure trove of folk music, and serve us Norwegian folk music with an old-time bluegrass flavour.<\/p>\n
The idea for LassoFolk was born when vocalist Hans Martin Austestad and fiddler Olav Christer Rosseb\u00f8 were on a study trip to the USA to immerse themselves in the world of American folk music: old-time and bluegrass. At a jam session with a handful of local musicians they started to play a Norwegian reinlender, a tune they often played at folk music jams in Oslo, and it proved to work equally well at a jam in the USA. They didn\u2019t tell the others anything about the tune beforehand, so nobody knew that it was Norwegian. \u201cAfterwards someone asks what kind of tune it was. Some of them even think that they have heard it before. We explain that it\u2019s a Norwegian instrumental. Somebody says, \u2018I thought for sure that it was an American tune\u2026.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlternating between American and Norwegian folk music is something we have always done in the Earlybird Stringband,\u201d Hans Martin writes in the liner notes. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s just as natural as alternating between cheese and cold cuts on our sandwiches. Sometimes we play both at the same time, just to be wild and crazy.\u201d Combining different folk music genres has been at the core of old-time and bluegrass music from the very beginning.<\/p>\n
LassoFolk was recorded live in an old house. The entire album was recorded with stereo microphone equipment and with limited use of effects. \u201cWe have tried to reduce the number of elements separating the instrument from the listener as much as possible.\u201d The sound on this recording is the sound of a log cabin, not a reverb machine.<\/p>\n
The members of the band have discovered unique Norwegian tunes from different parts of the country, which have a wide range of tonalities and rhythms. They also present their own version of an early song by Lillebj\u00f8rn Nilsen, \u201cDanse ikke gr\u00e5te n\u00e5\u201d.<\/p>\n
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