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fRoots

2013 April

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Andrew Cronshaw

2013 April

"These three are all so fluent across the genres that improvisation and top-class Nordic jazz is interwoven with the traditional material, be it an Älvdalen dialect saying fra Lena made into a song by Jonas or a polska with Lena's fiddle in full traditional style yet able to marph into ecstatic improvisation, or her viola warmly tracking Knutsson's arcing sax lines. The complete integration embraces tradition, their own compositions or an extended development of All My Loving, sung in English, one of Lennon and McCartney's most straightforwardly poppy up-tempo songs transformed into a warmly intimate love song. In Lena's singing there's no sense of "now traditional - now jazz", nor any suggestion of copying; she's unlike anybody else, in any genre".