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Return to the roots<\/p>\n
TR\u00c5 DANSEN is in a way a \u00abreturn to the starting point\u00bb for Hans Fredrik Jacobsen. Throughout his 30-year career as a musician, he has passed on and worked with both folk- and medieval music from distant centuries and other\u00b4s personal lyrics. TR\u00c5 DANSEN mixes personal experiences and historical people with music that has i\u00b4s roots in Hans Fredrik\u00b4s hometown Ris\u00f8r and the surrounding region. Just like a sailor, he returns to his hometown after many years of traveling around the world as a musician.<\/p>\n
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New album from Hans Fredrik Jacobsen<\/p>\n
Jacobsen\u00b4s new record is a folksong-album, which places great emphasis on spreading the lyrics. But it is also something more, with its great variation in the use of instruments, musical styles and touches of pure instrumental music. This is probably due to the fact that Hans Fredrik is first and foremost an instrumentalist, who nevertheless has always written songs, using both other\u00b4s and his own texts. In TR\u00c5 DANSEN, for the first time, his own lyrics are in the focus and it is the first time he sings his own songs on record.<\/p>\n
An exciting musical spice is added throughout the songs. Both by the singer himself, but also with the powerful musical team. You can find elements of both Norwegian traditional music and what is called world-music, a mixture of the familiar, the domestic and the exotic. This is also emphasized by the use of instruments such as Norwegian harp, Iranian santur, the Hardanger fiddle, Irish flute, Caribbean steel drum, elsitar, accordion, slide guitar, harmonium and harmonica. But the frame keeping this together is Hans Fredrik\u00b4s compositions and texts. The songs and melodies have been created over a period of 20 years. Some are entirely new, but all of them have gone through major or minor alterations under the recording process.<\/p>\n
TR\u00c5 DANSEN is Hans Fredrik\u00b4s 3rd solo album. The frist two were \u201cJ\u00f2L\u201d (Via music 1998) and \u201cVind\u201d (Heilo 2004). In addition, he has released \u201cLangt nord i skogen\u201d (KKV 1987) together with Tone Hulb\u00e6kmo, \u201cHimalaya Blues\u201d (Heilo 2004) together with Knut Reiersrud and the Nepalese group Varja, \u201cSelfl\u00f8yta\u201d (Heio 1997) with Steinar Ofsdal and Hallgrim Berg, and 3 CD\u00b4s together with the medieval group Kalenda Maya: \u201cRenaissance and medieval music\u201d ( Simax 1985 ) , \u201cNorse ballads\u201d ( KKV 1989 ) og \u201cPilegrimsreiser\u201d ( KKV 1997). Hans Fredrik has participatedon around 100 albums as a studio musician, and he has collaborated with Erik Bye, Secret Garden, Sissel Kyrkjeb\u00f8, Annbj\u00f8rg Lien and poets including Halldis Moren Vesaas, Ove R\u00f8sbak og Ola Jonsmoen, to mention a few.<\/p>\n
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