The Nordan suite

"Ale Möller and Lena Willemark's Nordan project continues, two decades later, but this time with an orchestra, and it's mighty (and won Album of the Year at Sweden's folk and world music awards in March) ... The big, complex, time-shifting music by Möller and conductor and arranger Hans Ek, interweaving composition and tradition, fully integrates the orchestra and the folk instruments. No "with strings", this, but a dark, powerful beast and landscape through which cuts, soars and hollers Willemark's riveting narrative singing, counterpointed and answered by Måoller's shawm, cow's horn, wooden trumpet and whistles, kantele, harmonica and more ... Music that I venture would thrill the likes of Bartók and Stravinsky".