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March 27, 2004
Also, they bill themselves as the first Fair Trade Music company on the planet
Ok, Calabash Music is making me very, very happy right now. They also have a de-funked blog, but what's doing the happy-making is the music selections, including bands whose names ring bells for reasons I'm totally unclear on. Sieve-like brain, but not everything slips through. Like Garmarna, f'r instance:
Garmarna's Guds Speleman (God's Musicians) shows an innovative band that's growing ever stronger and more confident. This album highlights the beautiful voice of Emma Hardelin; she's now developed beyond a promising young singer to one of the best.As with their previous disc Vengence, the band have excavated the dark side of the Swedish tradition to bring forth haunting melodies and lyrics filled with blood, guts, and doomed maidens.
In the Swedish lyrics, a fleeing pregnant woman is slashed to death by a werewolf, and a handsome young man barely escapes the clutches of a horny mountain troll. Just in case these stories are too nice for you, caterpillars devastate a river valley, a girl's lover is pulled from her arms and hacked to death by her seven brothers, and a tax collector is beheaded and sent to Hell.
Shame I don't speak Swedish. . . anyway, they also do that official site thing the kids are all into these days, with multiple versions for a couple different languages. Collect 'em all!
And tell me where the hell I would have heard of them, while you're at it. Could just blame Ecto, I guess. . .
For no particular reason, I'll also mention Najma and Sultana as reasons to drop by the site.
I'm fairly confident I wasn't previously aware of them.
Fairly.
Posted by Aaron at March 27, 2004 02:33 PM
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