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CD No: XOUCD140 by Bazar Blå called Nysch. Released: 2004

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The Review: From fROOTS Jan/Feb 2005:

A deserved breakthrough abroad for Bazar Blå seems to be happening just now, but the trio, in which Hedin's nyckelharpas interweave lushly with Bjorn Meyer's six-string acoustic and electric basses and Fredrik Gille's range of hand percussion including bendir, udu, rig, qhatam, djembe and cajon, has been around for quite some time. Its first two albums, Nordic City and Tripfolk came out in 1998 and 2000 respectively, and were reviewed in fR189 and fR216. After 2003's Live album on its own label (reviewed in fR252), the new studio album Nysch is back on Xource.
With some of the same tunes as the live set and a bunch of new compositions, while not radically different in style or sound from its predecessors this one is as good a place as any to start listening to prime exponents of new music that, in common with a marked trend throughout European music, crosses boundaries with high skill and musicianship while retaining a strong sense of coming from somewhere, because of these player-composers' deep familiarity with traditional music. As so much in western classical music seems to be running out of creative steam, there are increasing signs that the technical excellence, melodic ingenuity and non-music-stand-bound energy of the likes of Hedin and groups such as Bazar Blå, or the Nyckelharpa Orchestra - another that he's involved in - as well as others outside Sweden, are streaming in from the left-field that established, stiffening genres ignore until it overtakes them. It's ironic and pleasing that in this case the cradle of such outflanking freshness should be folk music, and one of its prime tools an instrument that nearly became extinct but has been sustained and developed to a new height of sophistication by traditional players.
Andrew Cronshaw Key words:

The Band: Bazar Blå Sweden

Band members:
411 Fredrik Gille (Percussion: Cajon, Tablas, Frame Drum...) 153


CD Tracks: 1. Grannlåten
2. Mulven
3. Andalus
4. Syster Ararat
5. Nypolskan
6. RIQ
7. Kebabchichi
8. Pôselåten
9. RODpolskan
10. Nysch
11. Framedrumsolo
12. Vilnius