Artist: Gjallarhorn
Genre(s):
Other
Ethnic
Discography:
Nordheim
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Sjofn
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Gjallarhorn is one of Finland's nigh exciting lester Willis Young folk groups. Led by David Lillkvist, a long time bookman of Latin American and West African drumming, the band fuses the folk music of Finland with a worldwide reach of influences and orchestration including the didgeridoo and Australian natalie Wood champagne flute. The mathematical group, which takes its identify from the mythical Nordic term for the forces of light put-upon by Heimdall to fight Regnarok, likewise features the lead vocals and lilliputian of Jenny Williams and the fiddle and mandola playing and vocals of Christopher Ohman. Releasing the hypnotic Ranarop: Call of the Sea Witch in 1998, the band staked their claim as a mesmerizing force in Nordic phratry revivalism. In 2000, the band came punt with a more seasoned access on Sjofn, a heady unify of traditional instruments, modern dawdler passages, and a composite mythical theme. Returning in 2002, the band furthered this coming and corporate an experimental streak that urbane the group's avant garde tendencies.
