Hurv KRCD-39: Historic recordings of Swedish folk music XI: Ekor Anders spelar och berättar

Ekor Anders Andersson (1898-1983) was a farmer from Evertsberg in the parish of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, where he lived all his life.

His father lilted the old tunes, and Anders started playing a bit of harmonica when he was a little boy and started playing the fiddle around 20 years of age. Foremost among his teachers he mentions Pål Karl Persson (b. 1857). Later he also started composing tunes in an old style but with a definite personal touch.

He was not only interested in the old fiddlers and their tunes but also started collecting stories and tales at an early age.

At the beginning of the 1970s, with the newly kindled interest for traditional music, he attracted much attention from the younger generation, who were looking for role models to learn traditional playing from.

In 1976 he received the finest award from the more official traditional music movement, the gold Zorn award. In 1983, the same year that he passed away at the age of 85, he received the Älvdalen culture prize.

The recordings on this album were made by Ekor Anders himself in the years 1954-55. They were originally recorded on a wire-recorder, but these original recordings are lost. Ekor Anders transferred them to reel-to-reel tape himself, and probably the equipment was quite primitive, maybe the copy was even made through a microphone. In addition, the tape copy has aged so that the sound has deteriorated even further, so I ask the listener to bear with the sound quality.

	Apart from Ekor Anders himself playing the fiddle and telling stories, we hear his musician friends Sven Per (b. 1887) and Sven Lars Larsson (b. 1893) backing him on fiddle.

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