Alder, sounds of the Vikings?

Tongång
AWCD21
1997

No one knows the music of the Vikings.

The Vikings are all dead today, and they have brought their music to "Valhall". 
Alder is no reconstruction, because it would be impossible to make a believable reconstruction of music that no one has heard for a thousand years.
Alder is an attempt to make a musical feeling of the Viking age. The music on this CD is brought from a living tradition. Music with unknown age from unknown origins. This music has been brought from man to man and every one of them has put his own piece to the tunes. A living tradition is always moving, but it also contains parts that can remain constant through time. It is always hard to tell the new parts from the old ones. In Alder we have only used instruments that we know - or that we think - the Vikings used. We have only used music that fits to these instruments. These elements have given us a traditional Scandinavian music which could be really old, and perhaps even older than that.
Who knows?

 
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