Artist: Groupa
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Av Bara Farten
Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
Incorporating modern instrumentation and imaginative extemporization, Groupa has taken a contemporary-minded advance to the folk music of Sweden. Led by lagger fiddle, viola and accordion player Mats Eden, the group has been at the head of the Swedish folk music revivification for more than two decades. While Rock'N'Reel magazine claims that Groupa "will challenge people's preconceptions of Swedish music", Roots World intimate that the band "achieves near perfection as they go further afield without leaving the ancient muse behindhand". In an early 1990s interview, Eden explained Groupa 's objective when he said, "each of us has in his own way been searching for unexampled means of expression within the range of traditional euphony. Having deep noesis of these old methods has tending us a ensure base from which to explore newfangled aesthetic possibilities".
Groupa's innovational level-headed has made them extremely popular in their fatherland. Their albums, Manskatt, released in 1991, and Imeland, released in 1996, received Swedish Grammy awards. In 1992, Eden was appointed "composer of the class" at the Musik Vid Siljian fete. Eden has balanced his participation with Groupa by playing with the Nordic Project and as a soloist.
Several other members of Groupa accept gone on to do with first-rate Swedish folk-rock bands. Lena Willemark and Ale Moller stay on to recreate with Frifot and the Nordan Project, a group that as well features Mats Eden. Lute and guitar participant Totte Mattson is a initiation fellow member of Hedningarna. Gustav Hylen performs with Hoven Droven.
The backbone of Groupa continues to be Mats Eden. A native of Varmland, Sweden, a small town near the border with Norway, Eden studied authorship at Musikhoyskole (the Norwegian Academy of Music) in Oslo. In 1979, Eden was named Riksspelman (master player).
Groupa went through a drastic personnel alteration, in 1990, when Matteson, Willemark and fipple pipe and basso clarinet role player Bill McChesney left hand the band. The stream mathematical group features Eden, flute and basso sax role player Jonas Simonson, keyboardist Rikard Astrom, percussionist Terje Tsungset and beautiful vocalist Sofia Karlsson.
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