 Mark
II -- Sorten
Muld
Folk
music has been continually reinvented through the ages.
A new generation will bring fresh tools to the old songs,
and that's as it should be. So for Sorten Muld to put traditional
Nordic ballads in electronic settings should hardly come
as a shock--particularly when it's done so well. You're
not going to be overwhelmed by techno or clubbed by big
beat; this is a band that shapes its ideas carefully within
a song's framework and that isn't afraid to use "real"
instruments for coloration. Add to the mix Ulla Bendixsen's
smooth, seductive voice and you've got something remarkable
going on. Bands such as Sorten Muld, along with some like-minded
souls (Garmarna,
Snakefarm),
are making folk music for the 21st century. Are you ready?
--Chris Nickson (Amazon.com)
The serene
trip-hop beats of Sorten Muld's music float so easily into the
ancient ballads of Scandinavia, you don't realize you're listening
to an amalgam of historic folk and electronic dance music, but
rather an entirely new and original genre of music. Ulla Bendixsen's
voice dances delicately in Danish over the techno backdrop, spinning
tales of romance and loss while hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, violin,
and sequencers pulse on in dark, urgent colors. An exceptional
album worthy of its two Danish Grammys. --Karen K. Hugg (Amazon.com)
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