Magnus Wiik – Norwegian Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1

Photo: Anders Lillebo

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Pub and dance after the concert

Magnus writes more about the album here:

The album Norwegian Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 was created from a desire to make a record of "fiddle music shot from the hip". Many of my favorite recordings are from completely informal settings that were never intended for records, where folk musicians just play fiddles for fun. The premise of this album was to try to capture some of these moments on recording, where you play around some fiddles with your shoulders down. These are also the moments I appreciate most as a musician.

I invited seven Hardanger fiddle players I have a great feeling for, with an age range of over fifty years. Some I had played with regularly for several years, others I had never played with before. The album was recorded with a simple, portable rig at home, both mine and several of the people involved, in rehearsal rooms and hotel rooms in Rauland, Gvarv, Hamar and Oslo. The process was a joy from start to finish, so I thought I might as well call it Vol. 1, there will definitely be more sequels.

The starting point for starting this project was to record some cuts that could serve as a basis for some narrative sections on the children's album Jakten på Amerika. The first recordings were made at Johanne Flottorp's while she was on maternity leave (but don't tell NAV). With a sleeping baby in the next room, there was a natural time pressure on how much you could get done, and after finding a couple of cuts that worked, it was just a matter of getting a few takes in in the time you had, simply shooting from the hip. When a few days later I was going to put these recordings together with narration, I thought it was so cool that it deserved a life of its own.