Sarek was a Swedish
folk-pop
Folk-pop is a musical style that may be 1) contemporary folk songs with large, sweeping pop arrangements, or 2) pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements. Recording production values created a unblemished style that appealed to ...
band formed in 2002, taking their name from
Sarek National Park
Sarek National Park ( sv, Sareks nationalpark) is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Lapland in northern Sweden. Established in 1909, the park is the oldest national park in Europe. It is adjacent to two other national parks, namely Stor ...
. They debuted in 2002 with the single "Vinterland" ("Winter land") and in 2003 they broke through with their single "Genom eld och vatten" ("Through fire and water") in
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song ...
. The group parted ways in 2012.
Members
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Stina Engelbrecht (music, lyrics, vocals, chorus,
kulning
Kulning or herding calls is a domestic Scandinavian music form, often used to call livestock (cows, goats, etc.) down from high mountain pastures where they have been grazing during the day. It is possible that the sound also serves to scare away ...
)
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Jessica Wetterstrand (vocals)
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Zara Kronvall (vocals)
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Kristofer Pettersson (
nyckelharpa
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 ...
,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
)
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Göran Månsson
Göran or Jöran (both pronounced ) is the Swedish language, Swedish form of George (given name), George, not to be confused with the Slavic languages, Slavic Goran (Slavic name), Goran.
Notable people with the name include:
*Göran Andersson, S ...
(
flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
,
jew harp,
percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
)
Discography
;Albums
* 2003 – ''Genom eld och vatten''
* 2004 – ''Sarek''
* 2008 – ''I natt ska marken skälva''
* 2011 – ''Magiska toner''
;Singles
* 2002 – ''Vinterland''
* 2003 – ''
Genom eld och vatten
"Genom eld och vatten" is a song written by Stina Jadelius and Mårten Eriksson, and performed by Sarek at Melodifestivalen 2003, where it ended up 6th. On 30 March 2003, the song entered Svensktoppen, where it first ended up fourth, and peaked a ...
''
* 2003 – ''Solen glimmar''
* 2004 – ''
Älvorna''
* 2004 – ''Medan stjärnorna vandrar''
* 2004 – ''Törst''
* 2004 – ''Alla änglar log''
* 2008 – ''I natt ska marken skälva''
* 2008 – ''Magiska sekunder''
See also
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Swedish folk music Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle. Another common instrument, unique to Swedish traditions ...
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Nordman
Nordman is a Swedish duo founded in 1993, that mixes folk music with rock and pop. This genre is called etnorock or folk rock in Swedish. The group consists of Håkan Hemlin, as singer and frontman, and Mats Wester, who plays the nyckelharpa, as ...
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Timoteij
Timoteij were a Swedish ethnopop group established in 2008. The group originally consisted of four women, Cecilia Kallin, Bodil Bergström, Elina Thorsell and Johanna Pettersson, all born in 1991. Pettersson left the group in 2014.
History
Tim ...
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Drängarna
References
Melodifestivalen contestants
Swedish folk music groups
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