KRY (2009)

September 04, 2009 / Martine Gulbrandsen

01. EN REELL HALLING
trad: Guilderoy Reel / Halling from Elverum
arr: Håvard Gravdal

Ireland meets Norway; a melodic battle between a reel and a halling. Who will win?

02. GÅTE
mel: Jostein Hasselgård / lyrics: Øyvind Ebbesvik
arr: Håvard Gravdal, based on an instrumental by Jostein Hasselgård

A song about expectations and passion for the one you love, combined with confusion and unanswered questions making your beloved a mystery.

03. KOLERA-VISE
mel: traditional Norwegian / lyrics: Alf Prøysen
arr: Pust

A man is about to be buried, and his widow is happily walking among the mourners. All of a sudden the man breaks out of the coffin, cancelling the funeral. His wife orders him back into the coffin, claiming the doctor knows best whether he is dead.

04. DET BOR EN GAMMEL BAKER
mel: Anne Hilde Grøv / lyrics: Inger Hagerup
arr: Pust / Elisabeth Anvik / Anne Hilde Grøv

There is a baker who lives on a tiny, desolate island. Nobody buys his cakes and he cries when the boats just float by. He has to eat all the cakes on his own and he eats himself to death. There is no longer any baker living on the tiny island.

05. LUKK MEG INN
mel & lyrics: Elisabeth Anvik
arr: Pust / Håvard Gravdal

Close me in is a song about feeling both intimacy and distance with a person at the same time.

06. FARAO PÅ FERIE
mel: Jostein Hasselgård / lyrics: André Bjerke
arr: Jostein Hasselgård

This is an alliteration-rhyme song about Pharao visiting his grandmothers in Miramarmora, poking at his furious grandma sitting in a pine-tree.

07. INNUNDER BLÅE HIMMELRAND
mel: Olav Budeng / lyrics: Jon Gunnes
arr: improvisation based on an arrangement by Håvard Gravdal

This is the Song of Rennebu, a beautiful and picturesque Mid-Norwegian village. The lyrics praise the feeling of attachment to a person’s place of origin, which is a place of pleasant memories, where you can find peace and lifelong serenity.

08. TRASSVISA HENNES TORA
mel: Egil Monn-Iversen / lyrics: Alf Prøysen
arr: Andreas Utnem

Two lonely souls find comfort in each other, experiencing a glimpse of happiness.

09. HADE'GODT
improvisation by Pust

The title of the song means "Bye bye!" or "Have fun!".

10. FRAM DANSAR EIN HAUGKALL
mel: Anne Hilde Grøv / lyrics: Arne Garborg
arr: Elisabeth Anvik / Anne Hilde Grøv

The lyrics are an extract from Haugtussa, a long poem about the young girl Veslemøy who is clairvoyant. At a party, as the dancing gets wilder and wilder, she has a vision, hearing the sound of a lyre. Haugkallen – the Master of the Mountain – comes out dancing, trying to seduce her in order to bring her to his kingdom.

11. USYNLIG
mel: Elisabeth Anvik
arr: Elisabeth Anvik

The title of the song means invisible.

12. EG KAN RO
mel: Fläskkvartetten / lyrics: Freddie Wadling
(New Norwegian translation by Elisabeth Anvik)
arr: Elisabeth Anvik

I can row is the story about how rings in water can symbolize humans growing together.

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