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Written in fRoots issue 345, 2012


TINDRA
Moder Norge
Ta:lik TA88CD (2011)

Songs of courtship, rejection, emigration, cold feet, goat-rustling, a cat’s funeral, eternity and cake from the tradition of Rogaland at Norway’s south-western tip sung with gusto by trio of high-voiced Åshild Vetrhus, the fiddle, accordion and backing vocals of Majorstuen’s Jorun Marie Kvernberg and Irene Tillung, plus male singers Gullgutane.

TINDRA & KROKE
Live In Førde
Ta:lik TA93CD (2011)

Tindra meet the self-sufficient elegance of Poland’s Kroke in funded cultural exchange project at Førde festival. The fiddles and accordions double up OK, if without adding much, but Vetrhus’s chirrupy singing on most tracks is less of a fit.

www.talik.no, UK distributor www.discovery-records.com


© 2011 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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