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Baltic Crossing
GO Danish Folk Music - Carl Erik Lundgaard


Baltic Crossing is the first folk music band to be part of ECHO’s ”Rising Stars program”!

Rising Stars want to promote young European musicians every season. Every year maximum 6 Rising Stars are selected. Non-calssical musicstyles stay an excemption. It was accepted that jazz or other styles can occasionally be proposed. But the artistic comty suggests that it will stay an excemption and that a formula might be 5+1 or 6+1.

BALTIC CROSSING’s ECHO tour:

December 15th, Athens Concert Hall, Greece
January 12th, Cité de la musique, Paris, France
January 13th, Philharmonie / Salle de Musique de chambre, Luxembourg
February 3rd, L'Auditori Chamber Music Hall, Barcelona, Spain
March 13th, Bozar Salle Henry Le Boeuf, Brussells, Belgium
March 16th Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 1st, Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden
April 30th, Laeiszhalle / Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany
May 2nd, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna,
Austria May 19th, Birmingham Town Hall, UK
May 22nd, The Sage Gateshead, UK

The Rising Stars Programme exists since 1997. It was for all these years the most successful and continued initiative of ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) . The programme tries to give an answer to the complex problems for younger artists to access the highest standard Concert Halls in Europe and to find an attentive audience: Many local artists have the qualitative potential to aim for a larger audience but are not detected by foreign concert halls and do not achieve the interest of an international programmer.

On the new CD ”Firetour”, The 5 musicians in Baltic Crossing, Esko Järvelä, Antti Järvelä, Andy May, Ian Stephenson and Kristian Bugge, plays a collection of folk music from the Danish Islands, Lolland and Falster. There is music from 18th century manuscripts of Bast, Ålholm and Reventlow and music from various 19th century collections like those of the Adrian family (Hillestrup, Falster), Niels Christian Andreasen (Sandby, Western Lolland), and Hans Hansen (Toreby, Eastern Lolland).

And last but not least, the CD includes a new composition, a polska tune by Frede Nielsen from Flintinge, Lolland.

Like the band’s first CD, ”Firetour” is released by GO Danish Folk Music (www.gofolk.dk) and is avaliable online via www.folkshop.dk, Itunes ect


 


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Baltic Crossing - Firetour

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Musikalsk samarbejde bryder strømmen Denmark, Finland & UK

-traditionel folkemusik fra Lolland og Falster (Lolland og Guldborgsund kommuner).

De 5 supermusikere Esko Järvelä , Antti Järvelä , Andy May, Ian Stephenson og Kristian Bugge fra henholdsvis Finland, England og Danmark spiller traditionel folkemusik fra Lolland og Falster (Lolland og Guldborgsund kommuner).

Baltic Crossing følger op på deres DMA nominerede debutcd Baltic Crossing GO0508(2008) og efterfølgende travle turneliv med dette projekt Firetour.
Der er musik fra de Lollandske 1700 tals samlinger (Ålholm, Bast og Reventlow). Og derudover musik fra Adrian slægtens nodesamling fra Hillestrup på Falster, Niels Christian Andreasens nodebog fra Sandby på Vestlolland og fra Hans Hansens nodebog Toreby på Østlolland. Endelig indeholder cd'en også en ny polska, komponeret af Frede Nielsen fra Højreby Lolland.

Via Højreby Spillemandslaug blev der hurtigt etableret et samarbejde med Kristian Bugge (konservatorieuddannet folkemusiker og musiklærer på Lollands musikskole) og orkestret Baltic Crossing. Gruppen har i forbindelse med deres kurser og koncerter på Lolland altid overnattet hos Frede Nielsen i Flintinge. Frede Nielsen har i den forbindelse præsenteret orkestret for melodier fra Lolland og Falster. Disse møder og hyggestunder hos Frede Nielsen førte til ideen om at Baltic Crossing skulle indspille en CD med musik fra Lolland og Falster. Orkestret tænkte lidt over sagen og besluttede sig så: "Let's do this crazy idea of Frede's". Heldigvis syntes Lolland og Guldborgsund Kommuner også om projektet og har sammen med Saugmann Bjerregaards fond støttet projektet økonomisk.

Antti Jävelä [FI]  -kontrabas, violin og mandolin
Kristian Bugge [DK] - violin
Ian Stephenson [UK] -guitar og toradet harmonika
Andy May [UK] -sækkepiber og klaver
Esko Järvelä [FI] -bratch, violin og trædeorgel.

1 Firetour - Tretur & Firetur (Adrian) 02:20
2 English Gimp – Engelsk Gimpe (Bast) 04:17
3 Rigel – Borcher Madsen Rigel (Hans Hansen) 01:54
4 Fredes Polska (Frede Nielsen) 02:57
5 March – La Pantouffle & La Marquise (Ålholm) 03:06
6 Lounge Mazurka – Mazurka (N.C. Andreasen) 03:46
7 Reventlow – 157 & 75 (Reventlow) 03:23
8 Hopska – Lollænderhopsa & De glade damers hopsa (N.C. Andreasen) 02:51
9 Schottis – Rheinlænder nr. 13 (N.C. Andreasen ) 02:52
10 The green skirt – Det grønne skjørt (N.C.Andreasen) 02:17
11 Waltz no 132 – Vals nr. 132 (Adrian) 02:26
12 Klinkevals (Hans Hansen) 01:26
13 The Psalm – Toreby Ligsalme, totur (Rasmus Toxsværd) 03:59

Tak til/Thanks to:
Nina & Jarmo Kettunen, Mauno Järvelä, Susanna Töyli, Maija Pokela, Jens Søndergaard, Andreas Tophøj, Gerd & Frede Nielsen, Jyrki Nuolikoski, the Mässbacka family, Hill-Aina Steffenach, Heikki Puronvarsi, Erling Olsen, Paula Susitaival, Minerva Pappi, Kenneth Huumarsalo, Vesa Laasanen, Guldborgsund Kommune, Lolland Kommune, Saugmann Bjerregaards Fond

Recorded January 2nd – 6th 2010 in Jamitalo, Härmä, Finland by Antti Järvelä & Jarmo Kettunen
All arrangements by Baltic Crossing
Mixed by Antti Järvelä
Mastered by Minerva Pappi
Coverart and design by Paula Susitaival
Photos by (? – hasn’t been decided yet)
Front painting by Frede Nielsen
Cover text by Frede Nielsen
Translations by Kristian Bugge & Andy May
Released by Go Danish Folk Music
Produced by Baltic Crossing

Read more at www.balticcrossing.com

Forord ved Frede Nielsen

På denne CD er der traditionel folkemusik fra Lolland og Falster (Lolland og Guldborgsund kommuner).
Der er musik fra de Lollandske 1700 tals samlinger (Ålholm, Bast og Reventlow). Og derudover musik fra Adrian slægtens nodesamling fra Hillestrup på Falster, Niels Christian Andreasens nodebog fra Sandby på Vestlolland og fra Hans Hansens nodebog Toreby på Østlolland. Endelig indeholder cd’en også en ny polska, komponeret af Frede Nielsen fra Højreby Lolland.
Via Højreby Spillemandslaug blev der hurtigt etableret et samarbejde med Kristian Bugge (konservatorieuddannet folkemusiker og musiklærer på Lollands musikskole) og orkestret Baltic Crossing. Gruppen har i forbindelse med deres kurser og koncerter på Lolland altid overnattet i mit hus i Flintinge og jeg har i den forbindelse præsenteret orkestret for melodier fra Lolland og Falster. Disse møder og hyggestunder i mit hjem førte til forslag fra mig om at Baltic Crossing skulle indspille en CD med musik fra Lolland og Falster. Orkestret tænkte lidt over sagen og besluttede sig så: ”Let’s do this crazy idea of Frede’s”. Heldigvis syntes Lolland og Guldborgsund Kommuner også om projektet og har sammen med Saugmann Bjerregaards fond støttet projektet økonomisk.


Nodebøgerne og nodesamlingerne:

Hans Hansens nodebog (Toreby)

Karen Lassen på 91 år bor på Toreby Plejehjem. Hendes svigerfar, Hans Hansen (f. 1867), var lokal spillemand og har efterladt sig en nodesamling, som vi, takket være en lokal folkedanser, Leif Andersen, har fået overdraget. Nodebøgerne indeholder melodier fra slutningen af 1800-tallet og begyndelsen af 1900-tallet.

Rasmus Toxværds indsamling (Falster)

Rasmus Toxværd (1847-1923), fra Sillestrup spillede violin ligesom sin far Severin Toxværd (1809-1890), der i 1820 havde købt en violin. Han lærte aldrig at læse noder, men spillede efter gehør hele sit liv. Far og søn spillede sammen til baller i området og da faderen døde, arvede Rasmus hans violin. I Rasmus Toxværds optegnelser finder vi blandt andet den smukke Toreby Ligsalme.

Adrians nodebog (Hillestrup, Falster)

Slægten Adrian indvandrede til Falster fra Holland en gang i det 16. århundrede. Den ældst kendte spillemand i slægten er Lars Adriansen (f. 1786). Om ham fortælles blandt andet, at han fungerede som skytte for præsten, men samtidig drev krybskytteri på præstens duer, som han derefter kunne sælge – til præsten. 2 af hans sønner og 5 børnebørn blev spillemænd. Et af børnebørnene, Hans Adrian (1853-1924) fra Hillestrup nedskrev i 1915 en god del af slægtens repertoire for at redde det fra glemsel. Nodebogen, som nu er i privateje, er nok den bedst kendte fra Falster.

Borcher Madsen

I Hans Hansens nodebog er der kompositioner af lokale spillemænd. For eksempel indeholder den flere kompositioner af Borcher Madsen (1815 - 1897) fra Falster.
Borchers navn forekommer hyppigt i de gamle spillemandsbøger, idet han ofte fremstillede melodier på bestilling. I alt kendes ca. 100 melodier fra hans hånd. I en folketælling fra 1840 omtales han som ugift skrædder, men andre kilder nævner ham som hjælpelærer og kirkesanger. Imidlertid giftede han sig og flyttede til Nykøbing, og blev byens mest fremtrædende musikdirektør
Det fortælles af hans barnebarn Vilhelm Hansen, der selv var en kendt musikdirektør på Østlolland og Falster, at han ofte i sit hus i Nykøbing Falster fik besøg af spillemænd fra omegnen, som ville have nye melodier med hjem. Borcher Madsen tog så straks nodepapir og pen frem og skrev ubesværet en vals, mazurka, galop eller andet direkte fra hovedet for fem eller seks stemmer. Derfor hændte det, at Borcher, når han selv var ude at spille, blev præsenteret for nogle af sine egne kompositioner uden at kunne huske en tøddel af dem og derfor selv måtte lære sig dem.
Fra Hans Hansens nodebog har vi udtaget Borcher Madsens Rigel.

Niels Christian Andreasens nodebog (Sandby)
Historien om spillemanden N.C.Andreasen og hans familie er beskrevet af hans nu 80-årige nevø. Niels Christian har efterladt sig en stor nodesamling bestående af fem nodebøger, hvoraf den første og mest sirligt skrevne er dateret til 1852. Han er altså allerede som 13-årige begyndt at nedskrive noder. Nodebogen er interessant derved, at den har musik, der rækker tilbage til 1700-tallet. Derudover indeholder nodebøgerne også masser af varianter af datidens kendte dansemelodier, for eksempel en smuk variant af den melodi der kendes som Gamle nr. 12 fra bogen ”358 Danske Folkedansemelodier”. Endvidere findes der en variant af Rheinlænder nr. 13, som Hans Hansen også har i sin nodebog. Den er dog her skrevet i A dur og det er denne variant Baltic Crossing spiller. De har valgt at spille den som en schottis, hvorimod Højreby Spillemandslaug spiller Hans Hansens variant, som polka.

De Lollandske 1700 tals samlinger:

Ålholm-samlingen
Ålholm-samlingen har tilhørt grev Otto Ludvig Raben (1730-1791). Samlingen indeholder syv indbundne nodebøger med i alt 2.500 dansemelodier. Den er dateret 1764-1782, men blev først fundet i 1991. Fortrinsvis består musikken af tidens klassiske kammermusik. Greven var selv en fremragende fløjtenist, så mange af noderne er fløjtemusik. Han var rig nok til at have fine lærere ude fra Europa, måske er det grunden til at mange af melodierne har udenlandske titler, f.eks de to (La Pantouffle & La Marquise) som Baltic Crossing har udvalgt til cd’ens March.

Brødrene Basts nodebog
Højreby Spillemandslaug har i mange år beskæftiget sig med Brødrene Basts nodebog, som er dateret til 1763-1782. Brødrene Christian Frederik og Poul Danchel Bast er født i henholdsvis 1743 og 1747 i Horslunde på Lolland, hvor faderen var degn. De studerede begge teologi ved Københavns Universitet. Studierne er tilsyneladende blevet finansieret ved at spille til dans ved private selskaber og gilder for det københavnske borgerskab. Begge fik i øvrigt siden solide præsteembeder.
Bogen indeholder datidens populære dansemelodier og er domineret af menuetter og engelskdanse, men der er også gamle polsdanse/polskaer. Om nogle af melodierne stammer fra Lolland kan man egentlig ikke vide, men sikkert er det, at brødrene har fået deres første musikundervisning i lokalområdet, hvor de voksede op. Pia Brun Jørgensen har udgivet hele Bast-nodebogen. Baltic Crossing har valgt melodien Engelsk Gimpe, den kunne de slet ikke stå for!

Reventlows nodebog
Reventlow-bogen er den yngste af de lollandske 1700-talsnodebøger. Den er dateret 1799 og har været ejet af en E. Reventlow. Men hvem det helt nøjagtigt var, ved man faktisk ikke. Slægten Reventlow er en vidt forgrenet dansk/holstensk adelsslægt. Nodebogen rummer 157 dansemelodier med tilhørende dansebeskrivelser. Dansene er tidens modedanse, dvs. engelskdanse og contradanse. Nodematerialet er spændende og indeholder mange melodier i 6/8 og endda også nogle i 9/8. Kun en enkelt af bogens melodier har en titel, nemlig Schotsch Bonet nr. 119, ellers har melodierne blot en nummerering. Vi har fra nodebogen valgt to melodier, nr. 75 og nr. 157, vi synes de er meget karakteristiske for materialet.

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Baltic Crossing plays a collection of folk music from the Danish Islands, Lolland and Falster

Esko Järvelä, Antti Järvelä, Andy May, Ian Stephenson og Kristian Bugge (Finland, UK and Denmark) now follow up on their awarded debut-CD Baltic crossing GO0508 (2008) with this collection of folk music from the Danish Islands, Lolland and Falster.

The music is taken from 18th century manuscripts of Bast, Ålholm and Reventlow and music from various 19th century collections like those of the Adrian family (Hillestrup, Falster), Niels Christian Andreasen (Sandby, Western Lolland), and Hans Hansen (Toreby, Eastern Lolland).
And last but not least, the CD includes a new composition, a polska tune by Frede Nielsen from Flintinge, Lolland.

Through local folk musicians the Højreby Spillemandslaug, a collaboration was quickly established with Kristian Bugge (graduate of the folk music department at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense and music teacher at the local music school on Lolland) and the band Baltic Crossing. Whenever the band has had concerts or workshops on Lolland, they have always stayed at Frede Nielsen's home in Flintinge. During these cozy sessions the idea came up that Baltic Crossing should record a CD with music from Lolland and Falster. The guys said: "Let's do this crazy idea of Frede's!" Luckily the local municipality's cultural departments (Lolland & Guldborgsund kommuner) liked the project and gave financial support as well as the Saugmann Bjerregaard's Foundation.
(Text and info in Danish and English)
 
Andy May (UK) - Northumbrian pipes, piano, harmonium
Ian Stephenson (UK) - guitar, melodeon 
Esko Järvelä (FI) - violin, viola
Antti Järvelä (FI) - double bass, mandolin, violin, hurdy gurdy,
Kristian Bugge (DK) violin

 

More info:
www.myspace.com/balticcrossing - www.balticcrossing.com

 

Introduction by Frede Nielsen

This CD is a collection of folk music from the Danish Islands, Lolland and Falster. There is music from 18th century manuscripts of Bast, Ålholm and Reventlow and music from various 19th century collections like those of the Adrian family (Hillestrup, Falster), Niels Christian Andreasen (Sandby, Western Lolland), and Hans Hansen (Toreby, Eastern Lolland). And last but not least, the CD includes a new composition, a polska tune by Frede Nielsen from Flintinge, Lolland.
Through local folk musicians Højreby Spillemandslaug a collaboration was quickly established with Kristian Bugge (graduate of the folk music department at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense and music teacher at the local music school on Lolland) and the band Baltic Crossing. Whenever the band has had concerts or workshops on Lolland, they have always stayed in my home in Flintinge. At those times I’ve presented to them some local tunes from Lolland and Falster. These cozy sessions in my home gave me the idea to suggest that Baltic Crossing would record a CD with music from Lolland and Falster. The guys thought briefly and said: ”Let’s do this crazy idea of Frede’s!” Luckily the local municipality’s cultural departments (Lolland & Guldborgsund kommuner) liked the project and gave financial support as well as the Saugmann Bjerregaard’s Foundation.


The manuscripts and musical collections:


Hans Hansen’s manuscript (Toreby, Eastern Lolland)


Karen Lassen is a 91 year old lady who now lives at the residential home in Toreby. Her father-in-law, Hans Hansen (born 1867), was a local musician whose manuscript has been given to Frede, thanks to a local folk dancer, Leif Andersen. The tunes seem to date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Rasmus Toxværd’s collection (Falster)

Rasmus Toxværd (1847-1923) from Sillestrup played fiddle, just like his father, Severin Toxværd (1809-1890). Severin bought a fiddle in 1820. He never learned to read music but played by ear all his life. Father and son played together for dances in the area and when the father died, Rasmus inheritated his fiddle. In Rasmus Toxværd’s collection the beautiful Toreby Ligsalme is found amongst others.

Adrians manuscript (Hillestrup, Falster)

The Adrian family emigrated to Falster from Holland back in the 16th century, actually. The oldest known musician from that family is Lars Adriansen (born 1786). The story goes that he was the gamekeeper for the local priest. But at the same time he was poaching the priest’s pigeons, and selling them to - the priest! Two of his sons and 5 of the grandchildren became musicians. One grandson, Hans Adrian (1853-1924) from Hillestrup wrote down a big part of the family’s repertoire in 1915 to save it from being forgotten. His manuscript book is probably the most famous manuscript from the Island of Falster, actually.

Borcher Madsen

Hans Hansen’s manuscript contains compositions of local musicians. For instance, a couple of tunes by Borcher Madsen (1815 - 1897) from Falster.
Borcher’s name appears frequently in the old manuscripts, because he wrote tunes for specific occasions regularly. Altogether around 100 of his tunes are known.
At a census in 1840 Borcher Madsen is mentioned as an unmarried tailor, other sources suggest a cantor or teacher, but when he married and moved to Nykøbing he became the most prominent music director.
His grandson recalls how local musicians often came to visit Borcher when they needed new tunes for special occasions. Then he quickly took his pen and paper and wrote them a waltz, mazurka, galop or something else. He would write the pieces straight from his mind, directly arranged for five or six instruments. Hence sometimes people would ask for one of his tunes and he would not remember anything about them. Baltic Crossing was totally charmed by Borcher Madsen’s ”Rigel” that we found in Hans Hansen’s manuscript.

Niels Christian Andreasens nodebog (Sandby)

The story of the musician N.C.Andreasen and his family is told by his nephew, himself now 80 years old. Niels Christian has left a big collection of music that consist of five books. The first is very carefully written and dated 1852. So he’d started writing down music already at the age of 13! The music is exciting because it goes back to the 18th century, actually. Besides that the books contain a lot of the well-known and popular hits from that time; for example a great version of the tune known as Gamle nr. 12 (published in the Danish collection ”358 Danske Folkedansemelodier”).
Furthermore there is a version of Rheinlænder no. 13 which is also found in Hans Hansen’s manuscript. Here it is written in A major and it is this version Baltic Crossing has chosen. They have found it works well as a schottis, whereas the local group, Højreby Spillemandslaug plays the Hans Hansen version, as a polka.

The 18th century collections from Lolland:

The Ålholm collection
The Ålholm collection belonged to Count Otto Ludvig Raben (1730-1791). It comprises seven bound notebooks with no less than 2.500 dance tunes, dated 1764-1782. But it wasn’t discovered until 1991. The books are mainly full of chamber music from that time. The count was a good flautist himself and was rich enough to hire some fine European teachers. Maybe that is why many of the tunes have foreign titles, like the two (La Pantouffle & La Marquise) that Baltic Crossing has chosen for the track March.

The Bast Brother’s manuscript
For many years Højreby Spillemandslaug has worked with and played a lot of the music from the Bast Brother’s manuscript, which is dated 1763-1782. The brothers, Christian Frederik and Poul Danchel Bast were born in 1743 and 1747 respectivly, in Horslunde on Lolland, where their father was a teacher. They both studied theology at the University of Copenhagen. Their studies seem to have been financed by playing for dancing at private parties in Copenhagen. After university, both brothers got good jobs as priests.
The manuscript is full of popular dance tunes from that time, dominated by menuets and country dances, but there are also quite a few old polska tunes in between. It is hard to tell if the melodies originally come from Lolland, but the brothers definately got their first musical classes in the local area where they grew up.
Pia Brun Jørgensen has published the whole manuscript as a fine tunebook. Baltic Crossing has chosen the fantastic tune Engelsk Gimpe, no chance we could miss that one!

Reventlow’s manuscript
The Reventlow manuscript is the most recent of the 18th century collections from Lolland. It is dated 1799 and it belonged to E. Reventlow, but little is known about him/her. The Reventlow family is very large and has noble roots around Denmark and Holsten. The collection contains 157 dance tunes with descriptions for the dances. The dances are of the popular kind from that time like country dances and quadrilles. It is a very exciting material with a lot of tunes in 6/8 time and even some in 9/8. Only tune number 119 has a title, the ”Schotsch Bonet”, the rest of the tunes have only numbers. We have chosen two very charecteristic tunes from this material, no. 75 and no. 157. 

 


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Baltic Crossing

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Nyt musikalsk samarbejde bryder strømmen

Denmark, Finland & UK

Idéen til gruppen opstod da Kristian Bugge og den engelske guitarist Ian Stephenson mødtes på en folkemusikkonference i Kokkola i Finland i foråret 2002. Gruppen mødtes første gang hos Ian i Newcastle i januar 2003. Siden har de arbejdet med musikken og turneret i bl.a. Danmark, Finland og Norge.
De travle, unge musikere har nu udgivet deres første cd i eget navn!
Baltic Crossing spiller traditionel folkemusik fra deres tre hjemlande og nabolandene omkring. Dette er en invitation til en spændende rejse gennem de nordiske og keltiske lande.

Ian Stephenson (GB) på guitar og toradet harmonika
Uddannet på Englands eneste videregående uddannelse for folkemusik på Newcastle Universitet. Spiller i de engelske grupper 422 og Kathrin Tickell Band. Lokal initiativtager og igangsætter for div. projekter omkring Newcastle, bl.a. Windy Bottom folk Festival.

Andy May (GB) på sækkepiber og klaver
Bredt anerkendt traditionsbærer på de ret sjældne northumbrian pipes. Vandt som 10-årig sin første af en lang række spillekonkurrencer på dette instrument. Fungerer nu som dommer på de samme konkurrencer og spiller og turnerer desuden med den kendte sanger Jez Lowes band og med sit eget Andy May Band.

Antti Järvelä (FI) på kontrabas og mandolin
Er vokset op i den berømte spillemandsby Kaustinen. Spiller i nogle af de mest kendte finske folkemusikorkestre så som JPP, Troka og ikke mindst Frigg til hvilket han er initiativtager og bærende kraft. Har medvirket på adskillige indspilninger for mange finske artister og er ligeledes en meget brugt underviser. Studerer på Sibelius Akademiets folkemusikuddannelse i Helsinki.

Esko Järvelä (FI) på violin og bratsch
Er fætter til Antti og således også fra Kaustinen, hvor hans far Mauno Järvelä er storspillemand og en meget vigtig bærer og videregiver af den lokale musiktradition. Esko spiller også i Frigg, samt bl.a. Tsumi Sound System og Töttersön. Er i allerhøjeste grad vokset op med musikken fra den spæde start, hvilket høres i hans overbevisende spil. Studerer ligeledes på Sibelius Akademiets folkemusikuddannelse i Helsinki.

Kristian Bugge (DK) på violin
Modtog i 2004 Danmarks Radios P2 pris, ”radium prisen”, som bl.a. omfattede en pladekontrakt. Det førte til hans debut cd der udkom i sommeren 2005 og senere modtog to priser, ”årets folkemusik debut” og ”årets folkemusik instrumentalist”, ved Danish Music Awards – Folk i Tønder den 11. marts 2006! På cd’en medvirker Baltic Crossing på ca. halvdelen af numrene. Kristian spiller desuden med det danske folkemusikband Habadekuk, duoerne Jensen & Bugge og Wenzell & Bugge m.fl.

 

Baltic Crossing use their strong affinity for old dance music and respect for each others traditions to bring a new youthful energy to the folk music of Europe.  Wherever they meet, at least one has to cross the Baltic Sea. 

They are:

Kristian Bugge (DK)                                  Violin
Antti Jarvela (FI)                                      Double Bass, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar (9)
Esko Jarvela (FI)                                       Violin, Viola, Double Bass (8)
Andy May (UK)                                         Northumbrian & Uilleann Pipes, Piano
Ian Stephenson (UK)                                Guitar, Melodeon, Double Bass (9)

tracks:

1. Sextour
Two traditional Danish tunes. The first one is found as ”Den toppede høne fra Vendsyssel” in the famous tunebook ”358 Danske Folkedansemelodier”. Kristian learned the second one from accordion and harmonica player Sonnich Lydom who found it in the manuscript of J. Mortensen from Svendborg under the name ”Wiener Quadrille”. The same tune was also found in the Fredericia manuscript of Hans Peder Christensen as “Sextour”. We liked that name better..

2. Vänkärin Set
First a traditional Swedish slängpolska from Harg in the region of Uppland. Kristian learned this tune from his good friend, Daniel Hedman who lives in beautiful Österänge in the northern part of Uppland.
Andy wrote Vänkärin Polska (The Shotgun Polska) in 2005, supposedly in the style of a northumbrian 3/2 hornpipe, but the rest of the band insisted it’s a polska, and Esko gave it a Finnish name which means ‘the front passenger seat of a car’ or ‘Shotgun’!!

3. Original Polka set
Two polkas from Vejle where Kristian grew up. The first one is called ”Du er min egen” and is from the repertoire of the famous fiddle player from Vejle, Frederik Iversen (1864-1948). He was the first musician ever to play traditional music on Danish Radio! The second one is called ”Et års Polka” and was composed by Kristian as a first birthday present for the wonderful twins, Greta and Alfred Wallin from Helsingborg in Sweden.

4. Den Strejkende General / The Striking General
Traditional Danish dance tune from the playing of Madvig Vilsen (1909-1987) from the Island of Læsø. It was originally composed by D.T.S. Bjerregaard (1852-1916) from Kjellerup outside Viborg, but the Læsø musicians adopted it and it became part of their big and very exciting traditional repertoire.

5. Ostindiens Velkomst
Traditional dance tune from Sønderho on the Island of Fanø. One of the many favourites we learned from the playing of Peter Uhrbrand.

6. Sir John Fenwick's
Two Traditonal English tunes: Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among them All/The Dusty Miller.
Sir John Fenwick of Wallington, Northeast England, was a supporter of the Jacobites, and was excecuted in 1697 for plotting to kill the English king William of Orange. The tune is found in several early Northumbrian collections including Peacock's Pipe Tunes, although 16th century versions exist, commonly named Mary Scott the Flower of Yarrow. There are many tunes titled The Dusty Miller but this 3/2 hornpipe version is found in the manuscript of English dance tunes ”John of the Greeny Cheshire Way”.

7. Korv och Mos
This fantastic tune was composed by the renowned fiddler Mats Edén from Sweden.  It means “Sausages and Mash”.  We had a great time playing the tune with Mats during our famous no-underpants gig at the excellent Haukeliseter Festival in Norway.

8. Space Cowboys
Antti found these two nameless traditional Finnish Quadrilles in a tunebook whilst sitting reading on the toilet in Kaustinen.  He immediately saw that they had great potential, washed his hands, and brought them to England for our first ever concert.  They were christened Space Cowboys by the wonderful Swedish Saxophonist Harriet Ohlsson, who thought the chords sounded just like the classic rock song “The Joker” by Steven Miller.

9. Mofodragon Set
Koukkulammin polkka is composed by a great Finnish fiddler Otto Hotakainen (1908-1990) from Halsua. He wrote many great polka tunes after he once thought there would be something for people to think about.
Molbodrengens Hopsa is composed by Otto Rasmussen (1872-1949) but was made famous during the seventies, actually, by the great Danish fiddle player Ewald Thomsen (1913-1993) who used to play it regularly.

10. Schottis set
We first combined the tunes “Blind-Ola” (Norway) and “Harrin Jenkka” (Finland) together with a little help from the Finnish-Norwegian band “Frigg” whilst on tour with them in Denmark.  Ian would be extremely happy if anyone would notice the other tunes he has tried to hide in the intro...

11. Grønne Aal / Green Eel
We learned this tune from Gerd and Frede Nielsen from Flintinge, Lolland, DK. We’ve had many good tunes in their beautiful home. Among that we had the joy of their great sausages, cheese, bread and beer.. Grønne Aal is from the manuscript of Hans Pedersen Adrian (1853-1924) from the Island of Lolland.

Read more at www.balticcrossing.com

   

 


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