Haunting medieval voices abound here as Sinikka Langeland brings her voice and kantele to meld with Anna Maria Friman, Berit Opheim and Linn Andrea Fuglseth, aka Trio Mediaeval. Her own team of Trygve Seim/ss-ts, Arve Henriksen/tp, Anders Jormin/b and Markku Ounaskari/dr provide sympathetic support for the dreamy voices. You get traditional material like “Puun Loitsu” as well as campfire stories such as “The Wolfman” and “The Magical Forest.” The voices create breezy cobwebs of sounds, sliding under cracked doors and half opened windows, with the horns adding howls from afar. Got any good campfire tales?
ECM Records