...ruminates on the relationship between Norway and the United States, particularly on the flow of migrants in the nineteenth century. Having spent some time on the remote island of Traena, he uncovered correspondence and photographs sent between siblings who had never met as one had emigrated to Hawai'i and there is something in the dichotomy between two different civilisations that has been captured here.
Trond Kallevåg
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The idea of swashbuckling Norwegians taking their belongings and, along with so many other nationalities, trying their luck in the land of the free, is what this album is about. What it does best is to pair a modern update of Norwegian folk music with mythic acoustic Americana; layering pedal steel with Hardanger fiddle and harmonium with guitar, finding a common ground as the incomers gradually settle.