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Written in Folk Roots issue 174, 1997

SUSANNE LUNDENG
Ættesyn
Kirkelig Kulturverksted FXCD 178 (1997)

Susanne Lundeng is one of the fiddlers who, if I played the fiddle, I’d like to play like - just the right phrasing, shape and tightness of turns, tone, and taste in tunes.
      She’s from the north of Norway, and, in keeping with her regional tradition, plays ordinary fiddle, not hardingfele. Live she has that crucial sense of the demonic. Her previous album, Drag, is one of that select bunch I inflict on friends - highly listenable, rich with variety, elegant-sounding but open to fun and clatter. Ættesyn continues in the same vein - strong traditional melodies and her originals which focus and intensify what obviously excites her about her tradition, by turns soaring in a stately brurmarsj or driving hypnotically.
      On 1994’s Drag there was a single song, which gave a glimpse of her capabilities in that direction; here there are two, one unaccompanied and one with piano, further proof she could be a leading singer too. Morten Huuse plays accordion, piano and organ, Odd A. Eilertsen bass and charango, and Finn Sletten percussion.
      The Kirkelig Kulturverksted label is a source of a substantial proportion of the new, beautifully produced and packaged Norwegian-rooted music - Lundeng, Arild Andersen, Kari Bremnes, Knut Reiersrud, Iver Kleive et al.


© 1997 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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