Artist: Valkyrien Allstars

Country: Norway
Genre: Folk/Country
http://www.valkyrienallstars.com/
http://www.myspace.com/valkyrienallstars
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Valkyrien-Allstars/46335571728

Reviews: Å gjev du batt meg (mp3)

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Live at the Office: Valkyrien Allstars

There's a new episode of Listen to Norway's fantastic video series "Live at the Office" and it features an artist I like a lot- Valkyrien Allstars. Check it: http://listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2012021312564193428702
If you haven't listened to their latest album "Ingen hverdag" yet, I highly suggest you remedy that.

Mon, Feb 13th, 2012 16:21:29

Valkyrien Allstars - Ingen hverdag (video)

A new tune from Norwegian folk act Valkyrien Allstars off their upcoming album, due out October 14. Recommended!

Fri, Sep 16th, 2011 19:18:07

99 Minutes #4

Episode #4 of Listen to Norway's "99 minutes" podcast series is now online: http://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2010081612422029193408
Featured artists include Valkyrien Allstars, Motorpsycho, Arne Nordheim, Kvelertak, Todd Terje, The Whitest Boy Alive and more, plus an interview with renown jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen.

Mon, Aug 16th, 2010 15:53:44

MIC Norway profiles Valkyrien Allstars

MIC Norway profiles the excellent fiddle trio Valkyrien Allstars: http://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2010012214084435003891

Thu, May 6th, 2010 13:47:27

Sirius playlist week #5

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. TALK 1
02. The Goner - Within the hour
03. Moto Boy - The heart is a rebel
04. Detektivbyrån - Hemvägen
05. TALK 2
06. Valkyrien Allstars - Hvis jeg var deg
07. Tobias Hellkvist - Patience
08. Scarred By Beauty - We swim
09. [ingenting] - Tack
10. TALK 3
11. I'm From Barcelona/Daviel Lindlöf - Lower my head
12. Monazno - Yes we can't
13. Silver - The white logic
14. Eskatol - Siste dans
15. TALK 5
16. Murmansk - The surgical assistant
17. Dyno - Destroy! Destroy!
18. Folkvang - Folkvangs första
19. C.Aarmé - Angola (Princess version)
20. TALK 5
21. Abhinanda - Junior

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Mon, Feb 1st, 2010 12:30:18

MP3: Valkyrien Allstars - Å gjev du batt meg

The good folks at MIC Norway sent me a big box of CDs earlier this week as part of their "Listen to Norway" music promotion program, so to oblige them I will attempt to do some sort of weekly feature on one of the contents therein. I'm planning on listening to most of it anyway, so why not give it focus? Now as for the types of discs they sent me, there's a good selection of pop, rock, indie and metal stuff that I've either heard before or at least somewhat familiar with, so I decided to jump into the other stuff first. I know some Norwegian jazz, mostly through artists affiliated with Rune Grammofon or ECM, and we'll get to those in coming weeks, but it's definitely the folk music that intrigued me the most. As regular readers should know by now, I love traditional Scandinavian folk, especially when it's done in contemporary fashion ala Detektivbyrån, but I'm also quite fond of the trad stuff, it's just that I barely know where to start with it so let us consider this to be a mutual exploration. There's a lot of folk music out there and I've listened to a damn lot of Hardanger fiddle this week and while I couldn't begin to tell you the history of the style or anything about the various regional variations, I know what I like and Valkyrien Allstars are a group I definitely can get into. According to the liner notes of their self-titled debut (2007), the trio got their start as the house band at The Valkyrien Restaurant in Oslo though they definitely seemed to have moved beyond that now, having been nominated for a Norwegian Grammy and toured Japan (and released a new album "To måner", which I do not have yet). Musically speaking, they are at their essence, a Hardanger fiddle trio, though they do mix it up by adding a few extra instruments and vocals. But what I like best about them is their energy and enthusiasm, a similar trait I heard in Swedish act Hedningarna, the band that first got me interested in Nordic folk. "Å gjev du batt meg" is one of the group's mellower tracks, but I just love the vocal on it, especially frontwoman Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen's rough-edged tone. It reminds me of Hajen/Jaw Lesson a bit, in fact they even kinda look similar as far as hairstyle is concerned. Anyhow, it's those little cracks at the edges that make it, and that's why I'm sharing this song today.

Expect more folk discoveries and other new (to me) tunage in weeks to come.

Valkyrien Allstars - Å gjev du batt meg

Fri, Jan 29th, 2010 13:21:07