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fRoots
issue 256, 2004
ERIK PEKKARI WITH PELLE BJÖRNLERT, BENGT LÖFBERG,
ANDERS LÖFBERG
Gubbstöt
Giga GCD 67 (2004)
Old-time dance tunes from the south of Sweden, not the well-known asymmetric
polska music of further north but the stuff of the Norwegian runddans bands:
polketts, engelskas, waltzes, polkas, schottisches and just a handful of
polskas, on Pekkari’s single and double-row melodeons, with long-time
accomplices on fiddle, guitar and double bass.
© 2004 Andrew Cronshaw
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