Nepali - Norway musical meeting (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:27:25 +0100
From: Arne Fredriksen <arne at etniskmusikklubb.no>
Subject: Nepali - Norway musical meeting


New album from Etnisk Musikklubb: EM53

Folkemusikk fra fjellandene 

Norge og Nepal møtes: 
 

Meeting in the Mountains

Svein Westad

Durga Khatiwada, Jiwan Rai, Shyam Nepali


Et musikalsk møte i solo og samspell mellom Svein Westad fra Norge og 
tre folkemusikere og musikklærere fra Nepal Music Centre i Kathmandu. 
Det blei et svært vellykket musikkmøte. Det viste seg at instrumentene 
munnharpe og seljefløyte - tross forskjeller i karakter og skalaer - 
likevel harmoniserte perfekt med hverandre - noe som ikke minst 
skyldes musikernes dyktighet. Dette høres i melodiene med samspell 
hvor likevel de respektive lands melodier godt kan gjenskjennes.


Nepali and Norwegian tunes are mixed into new musical expressions!

This album is the result of an encounter between the Norwegian folk 
music artist Svein Westad, and music teachers at the Nepal Music 
Centre in Kathmandu. In 1997, Svein was invited by the folk dance 
group Anam Dharan, whom he had met in North Korea some years earlier, 
to give a concert in Kathmandu. Before leaving Norway, he was 
recommended by Rikskonsertene to do a work shop with musicians at the 
NMC. The Nepal Music Centre is a recently finished joint project 
between Music Nepal in Nepal, and Rikskonsertene, sponsored by the 
Norwegian Agency Development Co-operation (NORAD). This meeting turned 
out to be so successful, that Svein invited his Nepali music colleges 
to join him in the concert at the Gurukul music theatre in Kathmandu. 
A few days later, they also recorded some of the tracks on this CD in 
the Music Nepal studio. The Norwegian Munnharpe and Seljefløyte are 
both natural scale instruments, thus seemingly different in character 
from the Nepali Bansuri and the Sarangi. Nevertheless, the instruments 
harmonized perfectly when brought together, thanks to the players’ 
skill in adapting their instruments to the mood of the music. Thus, 
Nepali and Norwegian tunes are mixed into new musical expressions, 
that may be recognized as within both nations’ own music traditions.

 
CD'en er månedens album i Etnisk Musikklubb katalog 72/73:
http://katalog.etniskmusikklubb.no

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Etnisk Musikklubb

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NO-3616 Kongsberg, Norway

Arne Fredriksen

Daglig leder/General Manager