''Come Home'' (released 2009 on the

Heilo catalog The following is a summary of the Heilo Music albums. Heilo Music is a Norwegian record label with records published by the parent label Grappa Music Grappa Musikkforlag (established 1983 in Norway) is a Norwegian music company initiated and dire ...

by the Grappa label – HCD 7244) is a studio album by the couple

Annbjørg Lien Annbjørg Lien (born 15 October 1971) is a Norwegian musician, playing the hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle), violin, and nyckelharpa. Career She first came to national prominence in 1986. Shortly afterwards got a recording deal with the Heilo lab ...

and

Bjørn Ole Rasch Bjørn Ole Rasch (born 28 July 1959) is a Norwegian artist (keyboards performer), composer, arranger and producer. He is a professor of popular music at the Agder University College. With his wife, Annbjørg Lien, he runs the Kongshavn Studios in ...

Review

On this album the Norwegian traditional musician and Hardanger fiddle virtuoso Annbjørg Lien teams up with her husband, foot bellows organist Bjørn Ole Rasch, for a wonderful and eclectic album featuring Hardanger fiddle, harmonium and contemporary and fresh versions of traditional music. With distinct compositions and performances, and a wide range of musical influences, they continue breaking musical boundaries.

Reception

The review by the Norwegian newspaper

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awarded the album dice 5, and the review by the Norwegian newspaper

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also awarded the album dice 5.

Track listing

#"Funk Trunk" (4:08) #"Jo The Gigant" (4:29) #"Come Home" (3:25) #"The Goblin's Halling/The Buckin' Mule" (3:22) #"Kongshavn" (2:55) #"Woody's Bounce" (3:32) #"The Old Car" (4:09) #"Phelia/January" (7:14) #"Roquebrune" (4:39) #"Hässleholm" (3:58) #"The Little Goblin" (3:39)

Personnel

–

Hardingfele A Hardanger fiddle ( no, hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings (rather than fo ...

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

keyed fiddle A nyckelharpa (, "keyed fiddle", or literally "key harp", plural ) is the national musical instrument of Sweden. It is a string instrument or chordophone. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to cha ...

and vocals *

– foot bellows organ,

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

and vocals

Credits

*Mastering – Roald Råsberg *Mixing – Trond Engebretsen *Recording – Trond Engebretsen

Notes

*Recorded and mixed at Kongshavn Studios in Kristiansand, Norway

References

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