Track Listing

1. 30-Year Jig - Vasen
2. Toadeater - Hedningarna
3. Imeland - Groupa
4. The Great Pie Pols - Chateau Neuf
5. Red Jacket - Swap
6. My Kantele - Loituma
7. One Day He'll Cry - Garmarna
8. Wedding March/Rowers Go Berserk - Vasen
9. Delivering The Light - Hege Rimestad
10. Foxwoman - Hedningarna
11. Weathervane - Wimme
12. Fanitullen - Tapani Varis
13. Sea Duck's Waltz - Olov Johansson
14. The Skvader - Hoven Droven
15. The Bear - Hedningarna
16. Texas - Wimme
17. The Blue Tune/The Legless Lizard - Den Fule
18. Klockar Aleksanteri - Troka
19. All The Young Men - Triakel
20. Way Down In Smaland/Swingpolska - Vasen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72496 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Compilation
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
In recent years, Northside Records has carved a unique niche as the American home of some of Scandinavia's finest folk and folk-rock artists. This compilation gives you 20 tracks by 15 of the brightest Northern Lights, including the Gothic, almost grind core rock of Hedningarna, winners of a Swedish Grammy for previous efforts, virtuosic fiddling and world percussion from Väsen, culture-clashing Celtic music from Swåp, a British-Swedish quartet, mutant swamp funk from Hoven Droven and the strangely compelling music of Tapani Varis's jews harp. As might be expected from people who spend half the year in frozen darkness, some of the tracks have a deeply melancholy feel, but the playing is always energetic enough to cast off a few rays of sunshine. --j. poet