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Kalle Almlöf's claim to blog inclusion
stems from his co-operation with Arbete & Fritid/Roland Keijser
associate Anders Rosén; Almlöf's first album was ”Västerdalton”
which prominently featured Rosén's fiddle, and so did 1975's ”Stamp,
tramp och långkut”. The eponymous 1980 album at hand marks the
third time they united on disc, and it also features some further
noted fiddlers, namely Pers Hans Olsson, Jonny Soling and Björn
Ståbi.
As expected, it's Swedish folk fiddling through and through
with an emphasis on polskas (a particular type of dance tunes highly
popular among Swedish folk musicians). The perfoming duties are split
in solos and duos, and while there's nothing wrong with any of it
(the skills displayed here are impeccable, needless to say), it's a
collection of tunes clearly aimed at the folk music audience and not
at all recorded with any progg listeners in mind. The best tracks are
the most melancholic ones, particularly the two that round off the
first side, ”Bakmes” (a variation on well-known Swedish folk song
”Vårvindar friska”) with Anders Rosén, and Almlöf's solo
execution in ”Polska från Älvdalen”. The high point of side B
is the Kalle Almlöf original ”Åreskutan”, a tribute to a
Swedish mountain by the same name.
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