Lena Willemark

With warm vocals and a forward thinking method of the fiddle, Lena Willemark has increased to top of the echelon from the Swedish music picture. Her single recordings and collaborations with multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller and rings Frifot and Nordan Task have helped to create the original music of her homeland up to modern specifications. While she’s been praised her on her behalf “fine level of sensitivity and power,” THE EARTH mentioned that her “amazing, powerful tone of voice can snap a listener’s throat hairs to interest.” A indigenous of Evertsberg, a little town in Dalarna, Sweden, Willemark was initially subjected to jazz and improvisational music in the past due ’70s. Her debut single recording, Nar Som Grast Det Vajar, released in 1989, received a Swedish Grammy and a German Music Critics reward. That same yr she produced her debut appearance using the Elise Einarsdotter Outfit on Secrets of Living; she also made an appearance on the 1993 collection Senses. Since 1990, Willemark spent some time working with Möller, a flute, octave mandolin, shawn, accordion, trumpet, bouzouki, hammered dulcimer, lute, percussion, and folk harp participant from southern Switzerland. They became a member of with upright bass participant Per Gudmundson to create Frifot, an organization specialized in improvising on traditional Swedish music. Willemark and Möller shaped a second music group, Nordan, which specific in reinterpretations of middle ages ballads, in 1994. Willemark offers increasingly drawn focus on her songwriting. In 1998, she debuted her structure “Windogur,” created with composer Karin Rehnqvist within the Women’ Following series commissioned by the town of Stockholm in its part as Cultural Capital of European countries 1998. The tune, which she performed with Bobo Stenson, Palle Danielsson, Lisbeth Diers, Staffan Larsson, Mikael Marin, and Mats Olofsson, was sung mainly in the local vocabulary of Älvdalen. Additionally, Frifot released a self-titled recording in 1999. In the turn from the hundred years, Windogur was documented in a studio room and made an appearance on Sweden’s Amigo label. In 2001, she made an appearance around the Elise Einarsdotter Ensemble’s recording Summer Night time. Frifot released Sluring in 2003, that was nominated for any Swedish Grammis honor. That same 12 months, Willemark collaborated with Norwegian vocalist Kirsten Bråten Berg and percussionist Marilyn Mazur around the recording Stemmenes Skygge; it had been ultimately released by Norway’s Heilo label in 2005. She joined up with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and performed frequently on its stage, aswell as in North Europe within different traditional and traditional groups. A single record, Älvdalens Elektriska, premiered in 2006, accompanied by a Frifot disk entitled Soar T in 2007. More than the next many years, Willemark lent her instrumental and organizing skills to varied recordings of her region’s traditional music through the 20th hundred years; she was an associate of the united states & Eastern Band aswell, which released a double-disc of local vacation recordings in 2011. In 2013, she collaborated with Mats Oberg and Jonas Knutsson for Alla Drömmars Sång. This is followed a season later with the Nordan Collection ‎with Möller as well as the Västerås Sinfonietta. Also in 2014 she documented Years in an organization with Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari, and Kari Heinilä. Willemark produced her initial appearance on ECM in over ten years with 2015’s Trees and shrubs of Light, some modern compositions and improvisations in cooperation with Jormin and Japanese koto participant Karin Nakagawa.