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Written in Folk Roots issue 173, 1997
STEINAR OFSDAL
Pi:p
Grappa GRCD 4126 (1997)
Instruments shape, and are shaped by, the forms of music they play. Bukkene
Bruse’s Ofsdal goes with the flow of his worldwide collection of flutes, in
company with guitar, yue qin and lyre player Olav Torget and Mari Boine
percussionist Helge Norbakken.
© 1997 Andrew Cronshaw
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