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Written in Folk Roots issue 138, 1994

HEDNINGARNA
Trä
Silence SRSCD 4721

Overwhelming - this is a record I dreamed of. Huge sounds, voices silky and grinding, joik, chaos, chainsaw and falling tree, percussion thunder, breath-rhythms, and at last icy running water. Music that steamrollers both safety and the smartass and goes ahead and screams, and words in Finnish and Swedish so cunningly formed and uttered they leap through the language barrier. It does what folk-rock seemed to promise but never had the nerve to deliver and does it without kit drums or bass guitar but with a whole new armoury of noise weapons sharing and supporting but never obscuring those individual voices. The real thing, and straight into the Swedish top 10 within a week of release.

No prosaic analysis - dance and fear.


© 1994 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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