Friday, June 17, 2022

FOLKVIND – Folkvind (Oktober, 1977)

Swedish vocals, instrumental, a capella
International relevance: **

Trio Folkvind's sole LP is a straight-ahead folk album with mostly traditional tunes, some augmented with new lyrics. It's quite likely the only trad folk album to mention heroin and Ritalin in its lyrics.

Despite being released on the Oktober imprint (and featuring a Fria Proteatern member, Marie-Louise Söderström), it's a pretty good album. It's well played with mainly fiddle, keyed fiddle and zither providing the musical backdrop to Eva Tjörnebo's voice that fits in nicely with style. Some tracks are pretty evocative, such as ”Jag vill gå vall” and ”Visa från Önnarp” – the latter almost sounds like something out of the ”Wicker Man” movie.

It will hardly appeal to the casual progg fan, and unless you have a special interest in traditional Swedish folk music, it will surely be dismissible, but it's a solid if unremarkable genre piece with the occassional peak moment.

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