Sinikka Langeland

Sinikka Langeland can be an award-winning vocalist, kantele participant, and arranger from Norway. Her single and collaborative recordings possess explored the root base from the rune music from the Finnskogen, an area of Norway called for the immigration of Finnish visitors to the region in the 17th hundred years. The kantele (harpu in the indigenous Sami) is certainly a normal plucked string device from your dulcimer and zither groups of devices of Finland and additional Northern Europe. Langeland was created in Norway and analyzed piano, acoustic guitar, and modern folk track throughout her child years and teenage years. She found out the kantele in 1981, and it became her main instrument. After learning in Paris in the middle-’80s, she came back to Norway and received a qualification in musicology from your University or college of Oslo in 1992. Upon graduation, she embarked upon an enormous research study in Finnskogen tunes and music, including several musicians, performers, and producers, included in this Ove Berg. Her debut documenting, 1994’s Langt Innpå Skoga, designated the start of a ten-year collaborative collaboration using the Grappa Musikkforlag label. During her tenure there she released nine albums. Included in this had been Tirun lirun and Runoja, recordings that dove deeply in to the poetry from the rune tunes, aswell as Strengen Var Af Røde Guld and Lille Rosa, both which presented Langeland singing middle ages tunes. During this 10 years she also released a publication within the rune tunes entitled Karhun Emuu and received the Edvard and Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Awards. Langeland authorized with ECM Information in 2005. Starflowers, her debut for the label, premiered in 2007 and presented Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, and Markku Ounaskari. It had been followed in ’09 2009 by Maria’s Track, which arranged traditional Finnish hymns and Bach spiritual tunes to accompaniment by kantele and viola. She re-teamed using the music group from Starflowers for 2011’s The Property THAT’S NOT, establishing the poetry of Edith Södergran and Olav H. Hauge to music. After an indicator from maker Manfred Eicher, Langeland shifted her concentrate for 2015’s The Half-Finished Heaven. Basically three from the album’s monitors were instrumentals, using the kantele in the foreground backed by tenor saxophone, viola, and percussion. After functioning solely with her Starflowers quintet for ten years, Langeland embarked on a fresh project that mixed that music group with the performers from the Trio Mediӕval. She constructed new functions and interpreted traditional rune music predicated on fragments from the axis mundi (“globe tree”) myths bought at the guts of very much Finnskogen lore. The Magical Forest premiered in August of 2016.