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Written in fRoots issue 198, 1999

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Låtar På Nyckelharpa Från Österbybruk
Tongång AWCD-36 (1999)
CD reissue of 1975 LP recording at a nyckelharpa meeting in Uppland of a handful of players including Eric Sahlström, Justus Gille, Viktor Vikman. Sounds pretty rough now, but it was these who carried the instrument’s tradition through the thin years before the present boom.
 

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Gubbskivan
Tongång AWCD-27 (1999)
An informal session of nyckelharpas, fiddles and harmonica at Leif Alpsjö’s house in Uppland in 1979, with Alpsjö, Curt Tallroth, nyckelharpa king Eric Sahlström, famous fiddler Viksta-Lasse, Lasse’s brother and nephew Sven and Bo Larsson and grand-daughter Gunnel Viking.

Ö.R.A.
Ö.R.A.
Tongång AWCD-31 (1999)
Nyckelharpa, fiddle, piano-accordion trio. Anders Mattsson, Robert Larsson (both Riksspelmän and Viksta-Lasse stipendiaries) and Örjan Englund play, with style and lively grace, traditional and new Swedish dance tunes, including several from Viksta-Lasse, Larsson’s great-uncle.

TROLLRIKE SPELMÄN
På Hugget! - En vandring i Sahlströmskogen
Tongång AWCD-32 (1999)
Tunes from the Sahlström family’s tradition, delivered by 25-year-established group of seven nyckelharpa players including Sture Sahlström, plus Eric Sahlström’s daughter Sonia on fiddle, with twelve-string guitar and bass.


© 1999 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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