MP3: Sinikka Langeland - Høstnatt på fjellskogen
Time for some autumnal music - for those that passed on reading the interview (thanks again Mr. Porter!), Sinikka Langeland is a Norwegian/Finnish artist who mixes Nordic folk tradition with modern jazz, her instruments of choice being the kantele and voice. Opening track "Høstnatt på fjellskogen" ("Autumn night in the mountain woods") is evocative of exactly that, the shortening days and the slow recession into winter solitude/hibernation. It rushes in like the wind and then all becomes silent and still. Likewise, this piece moves slowly towards a center - notes are left hanging and unresolved, the strange chords creating a tension in the air. When it finally does drift into silence, there is peace.
Sinikka Langeland - Høstnatt på fjellskogen