Gegründet im Jahre 2000, wurden TARA FUKI bereits mehrfach mit dem Czech Academy of Popular Music-Preis bedacht und spielten zudem 2007 als erste Gruppe Tschechiens bei der Weltmusik-Messe Womex. Mit ihrem neuen Album „Motyle“ melden sich die beiden Künstlerinnen sechs Jahre nach ihrem letzten Studioalbum „Winna“ zurück und präsentieren über zehn Lieder hinweg einer betörend...

Der Startschuss für die internationale Karriere IVA BITTOVAs war „Step Across The Border“, eine Dokumentation über FRED FRITH aus dem Jahre 1990 - seitdem ist die gebürtige Tschechin eine feste Größe in der internationalen Musikszene und hat neben zahlreichen ambitionierten Solo-Alben u.a. mit Künstlern wie BILL FRISELL, BOBBy McFERRIN, DAVID KRAKAUER, MARC RIBOT, PHIL...

The music of Stundom (formerly known as Elmøe & Hoffmann) is Nordic in its essence: Inspired by the traditional dance music from their ancestors, mixed with the classical chamber music tradition and several modern symphonic elements, achieved with a blend of the cittern, the violin and the piano. All of the music is freshly composed and arranged by Stundom, and the roots of...

With a very special empathy and grounding, Stine Michel puts music to renowned Danish poet, Inger Christensen's collection of poems "Sommerfugledalen" (Butterfly Valley) Inger Christensen's critically acclaimed and 30-year-old sonnets, with whom the singer herself has a very close relationship. "Sommerfugledalen" (Butterfly Valley) in a genre hybrid of pop, folk and world...

Mette Kathrine are regarded as one of the most active and rooted traditional Danish folkmusicians represented in bands like Jensen & Bugge, Zenobia. -and known for their great interpretations for the traditional Danish music and songbook. The many years with the traditional music must have inspired her: For many years, I didn’t think I was the composing kind. But the more...

CD + 16p. booklet & descriptions (DK & UK language) The Danish folk music tradition features a huge number of fantastic songs, from many time periods. There are happy songs and joking songs, but there are also deep and heartfelt ballads featuring stories about failure, longing and eternal love. Eternally valid items.. The duo Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred Høirup's lively...

Per Fjord's album ”UDENFOR BILLEDET” (“Outside the picture”) from 1993 is reissued. DK Lyrics and music by Per Fjord and Svend-Erik Pedersen. Produced and arranged by Martin Gerup and with a great line up of Danish musicians and singers as contributors. The album received an extremely good reception in the press in its time Now, almost 30 years later, Per Fjord and...

BRAGR plays contemporary Scandinavian folk music with both traditional tunes and original compositions. Their arrangements gives the music a fresh aura and elements of surprise. During concerts, the musicians presents the melodies with humorous anecdotes and interresting stories about the old fiddlers, from whom they inherited the material, to make the music come even more...

The Duo Maskineri is two highly respected Daish folkmuscicians, singers and composers Maja Kjær Jacobsen, fiddle and song, and Søren Vinther Røgen, guitar also know from Fru Skagerrak, Maja & David, Maja Kjær Kvartet, Trolska Polska, Trio Svin and Kontoret. Traditional music doesn’t let people or time stand in its way. It is a timeless machinery that has a life of its own. A...

Himla is a new Nordic collaboration between singer and songwriter Adine Fliid (DK / NO), cellist Oda Dyrnes (NO), and clarinetist Siri Iversen (DK). The Nordic trio's debut album “Himla” offers a modern take on the Nordic pop / folk genre. The three musicians draw their primary inspiration from pop music, but add elements from folk, avant-garde and chamber music. The album...

RÅ consists of three vibrant and innovative musicians from the Scandinavian folk and improvisation scene who playfully explore traditional Swedish folk music. RÅ has taken the beautiful melancholy of the polska, the bubbling rhythmics of the waltz and the playful swing of the polka and explored the possibilities, thus creating a musical sphere that challenges and intrigues...

Jensen & Bugge is the story of Mette Kathrine Jensen Stærk and Kristian Bugge, who grew up in the same neighborhood outside Vejle (DK) but first really met at the Music Conservatory and in 2001 formed the duo Jensen & Bugge which is now one of Denmark's undisputed busiest duo within the traditional instrumental Danish folk music. Now, 20 years later, with many CD releases,...