Nu är det officiellt julmånad och Glöggkompaniet firar detta med att släppa julens juligaste album under namnet Decennium – för att fira 10 år som band! Bandet består av musiker kända på egen fot och grupper som Åkervinda, 232 strängar, Alligator Gumbo, Pøbel, Spöket i Köket och många fler.
Med sången i fokus och med rötterna i nordisk, skotsk folkmusik och visa gör Glöggkompaniet vemodiga, dansanta och medryckande tolkningar av vintermörkrets låtskatter som sprider glädje och ljus i årets mörkaste månad. Med stort engagemang och en rejäl dos entusiasm låter bandet influenser från jazz, salsa och amerikansk old-time blandas med en stor kunskap om, och kärlek till, den svenska och keltiska folkmusiken.
Den variationsrika, akustiska instrumenteringen gör att bandet med lätthet hanterar de flesta slags scener. Detta vare sig det krävs lågmäld stämningsmusik, elförstärkt röj eller vadhelst som skulle kunna finnas däremellan – allt med en energi som sprider glädje och ljus i vintermörkret!
Releaseturné runt hörnet med stopp i i Lidköping, Dals-Långed, Göteborg och Malmö! Så fram med glöggen och på med musiken – och bjud in en vän eller två till att lyssna också!
Idag släpper Thor & Olle sitt första stopp på en resa i södern, nämligen Louisiana! Och det följer fler stopp under våren!
Thor & Olle – Musik från södern – Louisiana
Thor och Olle (Thor Ahlgren & Olle Pelayo Lind), två unga, hängivna och skickliga multiinstrumentalister, tar med oss på en fartfylld resa där mångfald bara är förnamnet. På bouzouki, munspel, durspel, säckpipa, flamencogitarr och triangel får vi uppleva en uppsjö av olika folkmusikkulturer från jordens södra trakter. Resan går över dramatisk festmusik och flamenco från våra Medelhavstrakter, via grekisk fiskarmusik och en fransk säckpipslåt, vidare bort mot röjig blues, cajun och country från Lousianas träskmarker. Publiken bjuds in i medryckande refränger och rytmer där alla kan vara med. Till slut landar vi hemma igen, i en svensk folkmusiklåt, som väver in musikaliska minnen från resans tidigare stopp.
New live album from Swedish tango group Orquesta Tangarte (who were nominated in the category Group of the Year at the ”Folk & World Music Gala 2020”) and Argentinean singer Claudia Pannone. Available on CD and for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc. from 2021 01 29!
DOWNLOAD: Visit iTunes Music Store or or your favourite download store.
SVERIGE: Beställ CD genom att maila till shop@monophon.se: SEK 120 inkl porto inom Sverige (betalning via Swish, kortbetalning Payson.se, eller faktura - vänligen ange önskad betalningsmetod).
INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: Order CD by sending an email to shop@monophon.se: SEK 150 (approx. 15 € / 20 $) incl. international shipping (payment through PayPal - credit cards accepted).
Pre-order your CD, limited edition! Buying a CD is a great way to support your favourite tango orchestra in these times.
Presenter & clarinet #09: Harald Leander. Double bass #02 Jacob Bartilson. Violin 2 #02 Irina Binder.
Musical direction Juanjo Passo. FOH/Recorded by Paul Suchanek. Mixed and mastered by Per Tidstrand. Produced by Per Tidstrand. Photo by Tomas Engin. Dancers: Marcela Troncoso & Ruben Marin
In loving memory of Juan José Passo.
Med stöd från / with support from STATENS KULTURRÅD.
Juan José Passo Foto Giedre Mataciunaite
About the Album ”20.”
The Album title is referring to the group’s 20th anniverary in 2019, which was captured live at Palladium in the band’s hometown Malmö, Sweden. Tango, born in the harbour areas of Rio de la Plata, has taken the journey from the rough back streets of Buenos Aires to the finest halls in the world. Tangarte, who for more than 20 years have specialized in playing for dancing, doug deeper into the music in preparation for this tour. Back through history, to the roots of tango, the rhythm and folklore. From there, through the traditional and danceable tango, on to the tango of the concert halls. This music, that hits us with all it’s power, passion and poetry.
The Album begins with the lonely voice of the group’s co-founder Juan José Passo, who recently passed away at the age of 85. A few instrumental tracks are on this record, but most of this live album features the guest appearance of the Argentinan singer Claudia Pannone (Gotan Project).
Tangarte20_Foto_Tomas_Engin
About Orquesta Tangarte
Orquesta Tangarte is an Argentinean-Swedish tango orchestra, founded in 1999 in Malmö, Sweden, by the bandoneonist Juanjo Passo with the purpose of performing and spreading tango music from its birthplace, Rio de la Plata. The orchestra’s music is the tango from Rio de la Plata, with a repertoire of great variety of the different styles and époques of tango, performed both for for dancing and for concerts. Orquesta Tangarte regularly invite guest artists. Orquesta Tangarte have performed together with wind and symphony orchestras. Orquesta Tangarte were nominated in the category Group of the Year at the ”Folk & World Music Gala 2020”.
Nytt livealbum med Malmögruppen Orquesta Tangarte (som var nominerade i kategorin årets grupp på Folk- och Världsmusikgalan 2020) och den argentinska sångerskan Claudia Pannone. Albumet släpps 2021 01 29 på CD samt för download och streaming på alla de vanliga tjänsterna som iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer etc.
SVERIGE: Beställ CD genom att maila till shop@monophon.se: SEK 120 inkl porto inom Sverige (betalning via Payson.se eller faktura, vänligen ange önskad betalningsmetod).
Förbeställ din CD, begränsad upplaga! Att köpa en CD är ett utmärkt sätt att stötta din favorit-tangoorkester i dessa tider.
Om albumet ”20.”
Albumets titel syftar på gruppens 20-årsjubileumsfirande 2019, som här fångades live på Palladium i Malmö. Tangon, som föddes i hamnområdet i Rio de la Plata, har tagit sig från de ruffigaste bakgatorna i Buenos Aires till de finaste salonger i världen. Tangarte, som sedan starten 1999 specialiserat sig på att spela till dans kavlade inför denna turné upp ärmarna och grävde djupare i musiken. Bakåt i historien till tangons rötter i rytmerna och folkmusiken. Därifrån, via den traditionella dansanta tangon, till konsertsalongernas tango. Denna musik som drabbar oss med all sin kraft, passion och poesi.
På albumet hörs först den ensamma rösten av gruppens medgrundare Juan José Passo, som nyligen gick bort i en ålder av 85 år. Några instrumentala spår finns med, men tungvikten på detta livealbum ligger på gästspelet av den argentinska sångerskan Claudia Pannone (bl. a. Gotan Project).
Om Orquesta Tangarte
Orquesta Tangarte är en argentinsk-svensk tangoorkester som grundades i Malmö 1999 av bandoneonisten Juanjo Passo med syftet att framföra och sprida tangomusiken från dess födelseplats, Rio de la Plata. Tangartes musik är framför allt den rioplatensiska tangon, med en stor och varierad repertoar från tangons olika stilar och epoker, och spelar både konserter och till dans. Orkestern bjuder regelbundet in gästartister. Orquesta Tangarte har också gjort konserter tillsammans med både blås- och symfoniorkestrar. Orquesta Tangarte var nominerade i kategorin årets grupp på Folk- och Världsmusikgalan 2020.
A new single from Orquesta Tangarte – “Acá Lejos”! Available for download and streaming on all the usual services!
Orquesta Tangarte – Acá Lejos
A new release from Orquesta Tangarte, Acá Lejos! This piece is the first of several pieces to be released that Juan Esteban Cuacci has written. Tangarte have had the pleasure to work with him as a musician many times through the years, but this time as a composer. Juan Esteban Cuacci’s music certainly contains elements from tango, but that is really only one of the ingredients.
A new single from Orquesta Tangarte “La milonga que faltaba”. Available for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc. from 2019 06 24!
Orquesta Tangarte – La milonga que faltaba
It is time for a new release from Orquesta Tangarte, a little celebration of the group’s 20th anniversary this year! This recording of La milonga que faltaba is dedicated to the wonderful DJ Marcelo Rojas of La 2×4. Saludos & abrazos Marcelo from Tangarte!
We are proud to bring you Anna Fält with her first album “ITE”. Available on CD and for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc. from 2018 11 19!
“Words cannot express how happy, proud and exited I am to finally have this album out. I can honestly say this is something I´ve been waiting for My Whole Life: my first official full-length solo album. Unaccompanied solo song, voice, sounds, vocals, tradition, new compositions, repetitive, meditative, hard, harsh, sweet, beautiful… human voice.”
“March 2015 I received two grants to start working with a project in which I am studying the ancient singing traditions collected from the so called “Finnish forests” in Sweden (and a bit behind the border in Norway). These forests were unsettled until about 1600’s when thousands of Finns came and started burning down the forests, making them into fields with their special technique. Still in 1960’s there were a few people who could the old songs and traditions and spoke Finnish; they had preserved the dialect and traditional songs that had vanished in Finland.
Anna Fält (photo by Jerry Pedersen)
So far I’ve been in Värmland, middle of Western-Sweden where the Swedish “Finnskogarna” still have old houses left and a culture centre/museum in Lekvattnet. I’ve visited several old “Finnish houses” and I also got the possibility to travel to Norway to sing at the annual Finnskogdagene festival 2015. After this I’ve been back in these places several times.
The opening night of my solo performance “Finnskogarnas magi” was Thursday (a magical day of the week in the Forest Finns old tradition!) 19/11.2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. The next show was also in Stockholm at Teater Slava Friday 9/12 and the first show in Finland was 17/12 .
Finnskogarnas Magi is an on-going project, which will continue it’s journey. Summer 2016 I performed at Sommelo Folk Music Festival and gave a lecture about this tradition. The seminars, lectures and research work will continue alongside the upcoming performances. 2017 I gave a workshop on these songs at Urkult festival in Sweden and performed Finnskogarnas magi for the 5th time, of course on a Thursday… I’ve had several solo concerts with this material, for example at the Faroe Islands and Iceland.”
We are proud to bring you Anna Fält with her first two singles “Sauna” and “Puun loitsu”. Available for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc. now!
“This is the first single called SAUNA and it is an old sauna spell text I wrote music to years ago when composing to the dance performance ¡RÅ!. The new piece is is a modified version of the original I made last fall to a special gig at my favorite sauna, Ribersborgs Kallbadhus in Malmö.”
“The other single, PUUN LOITSU, is based on the ancient singing traditions of the so called Finnskogarna in Sweden, forrests that were colonized by the mysterious Forrest Finns. This is a spell for a tree and it is one of the first songs I composed to my solo performance Finnskogarnas magi. It is also the only song on the upcoming album where we took advantage of studio technics and recorded several tracks so that the recorded version differs from the live one. Otherwise the whole album is all about one voice, a cappella solo singing, stripped, minimalistic and simple. Just the way I like it.”
“March 2015 I received two grants to start working with a project in which I am studying the ancient singing traditions collected from the so called “Finnish forests” in Sweden (and a bit behind the border in Norway). These forests were unsettled until about 1600’s when thousands of Finns came and started burning down the forests, making them into fields with their special technique. Still in 1960’s there were a few people who could the old songs and traditions and spoke Finnish; they had preserved the dialect and traditional songs that had vanished in Finland.
Anna Fält (photo by Jerry Pedersen)
So far I’ve been in Värmland, middle of Western-Sweden where the Swedish “Finnskogarna” still have old houses left and a culture centre/museum in Lekvattnet. I’ve visited several old “Finnish houses” and I also got the possibility to travel to Norway to sing at the annual Finnskogdagene festival 2015. After this I’ve been back in these places several times.
The opening night of my solo performance “Finnskogarnas magi” was Thursday (a magical day of the week in the Forest Finns old tradition!) 19/11.2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. The next show was also in Stockholm at Teater Slava Friday 9/12 and the first show in Finland was 17/12 .
Finnskogarnas Magi is an on-going project, which will continue it’s journey. Summer 2016 I performed at Sommelo Folk Music Festival and gave a lecture about this tradition. The seminars, lectures and research work will continue alongside the upcoming performances. 2017 I gave a workshop on these songs at Urkult festival in Sweden and performed Finnskogarnas magi for the 5th time, of course on a Thursday… I’ve had several solo concerts with this material, for example at the Faroe Islands and Iceland.”
We are very happy to present Pøbel and their first album Lux Luminum. It will be released 2017 05 13 on CD (available for order at www.poebel.dk and here at www.monophon.se), and on all the usual digital music download stores. Streaming release is set to follow in September this year.
Dressed in historically correct 1470-clothes and armed with shawms, flutes, bagpipes, drums, fiddle, hurdy gurdy and lute, Pøbel bring the audience back in time aided by facts and stories of the instruments and melodies. If granted the opportunity, they will happily put on the dancing shoes.
Pøbel is an old Scandinavian word for mob or crowd. As the name suggests, Pøbel like to focus on the music of the common man – the music that ordinary people could have experienced at the faire or at other festive occasions around medieval Europe.
The album Lux Luminum is certainly a good case in point, with it’s colourful parade of folklorical and well-arranged medieval tunes from both Scandinavia and other parts of the World.
Oh, and don’t forget to bring your own dancing shoes.
All tracks arranged by Pøbel Special guest on ”Lullaby” Agnes Åhlund Produced and recorded by Troels Alsted at his studio (2017) ”Grand Banquet” recorded by Michael Caplin at Skurups Folkhögskola (2014) Mixed by Troels Alsted & Pøbel Mastering by Per Tidstrand Photos by Benjamin Tarp Cover layout by Mads Kjøller-Henningsen
We are proud to bring you 232 Strängar with their first album Spunnet. It will be released 2016 07 29 for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc.
232 Strängar (which means 232 Strings) duo will take you on a journey from northern Sweden’s forests down to the open plains of Skåne, where the piano’s tone colours are woven together with the violin’s intricate harmonies and together create a different and exciting form of folk music today.
The music tells of emotions, highs and lows, shaped in beautiful waltzes, groovy schottis, melancholic polskas, where no one is left untouched. The duo’s penchant for improvisation and other genres such as jazz, creating interesting arrangements, delicate soundscapes and curious rhythm.
Although the number of musicians not more than two, the width of the music is great and the colours are many.
Frida Höfling & Emma Engström met at Skurups folk high school and have in recent years been performing at festivals, dance halls, churches, schools, nursing homes, cafes, jazz clubs and trains throughout Sweden.
Album credits: Frida Höfling, violins and cow horn, Emma Engström, piano. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Johannes Lundberg at Studio Epidemin, Gothenburg.
Sexteto Bandango are here with their first EP called Oblivion. It will be released 2016 03 01 for download and streaming on all the usual services like iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc.
#01 Michelangelo 70, Astor Piazzolla #02 Oblivion, Astor Piazzolla #03 Tanguedia, Astor Piazzolla #04 Prologue (Tango Apasionado) from The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, Astor Piazzolla
Sexteto Bandango is a band where musicians from different genres – tango, jazz, improvisation and classical music meet to jointly embark on exploring the concertante tango repertoire of Astor Piazzolla classics to to- day’s Tango Nuevo. With a slightly different instrumental composition and a hint of jazz the main thread is tango and improvisation.
Right now the band’s material is based on Astor Piazzolla but Sexteto Bandango also play music by John Coltrane, for example, but also Alberto Ginastera and other new Argentine composers Ramiro Gallo, Pedro Giraudo, Julian Graciano and Andres Lynetzky.
The four tracks on the EP Oblivion are all written by Astor Piazzolla, and they range from the meditative to the heavy and brutal, with many contrasts and moods simultaneously.
Juanjo Passo, who leads the group, is also leading tango orchestra Orquesta Tangarte and was portrayed in Swedish National Television program series “Doreen comes home” 2015.
Album Credits:
Sexteto Bandango: Juanjo Passo, bandoneon | Dante Hidemark Boström, piano | Peter Olsson, electric guitar | Viktor Auregård, double bass | Joakim Jensen drums | Mårten Lundgren trumpet.
