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.
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På
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Vallåtspolska |
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de
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Gammal
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polska
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med
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Polska
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Gärdeby
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Marsch |
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Polska |
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sägner |
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