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Written in fRoots issue 310, 2009
 

SYLVARNES/VANGEN
Kong Ring
Sylvarnes SFSPCD 072 (2007)

Odd Sylvarnes Lund on bukkehorn and jew’s harp, Roar Vangen on fast-strummed, generally retro-prog tasteless, occasionally langeleik-ish 12-, 6-string and electric guitars play not very inspired original tunes. It’s hard to play bukkehorn - a goat’s horn with fingerholes, blown like a trumpet - in tune at all, and it’s more at home alone and in the less rhythmic moments. www.roarvangen.com


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