Klacklek (Sweden/Norway)

The band provides energetic, playful and danceable folk music. Sophia and Anders were brought up as traditional fiddlers in their respective hometowns of Hagfors and Rättvik. Stockholmer David Tallroth has a jazz background but changed tracks when he finally encountered the traditional Swedish folk music.

The three hip young things power their way through the tunes proving once again that it’s cool to play traditional music. But they also have some quite acute sensitivity in there placing them among the top-flight young musicians to come out of the country, with a great sense of history, flying fingers, and the kind of future that makes sure traditional music is never going to fall by the wayside in Sweden.

Klacklek however is not just three musicians, it is a performance group merging music and dance in a dazzling yet graceful interplay of whirling limbs embodying the lust, the sensuality and the passion of Nordic traditions.

Dancers Nana Heinberg from Sweden and Jon Ellingsen from Norway thread their way through polska (the generic term for a triple-meter Nordic rhythm and used in three distinctly variations; quaver polska with a 8th-note construction characterized by "tapping the foot" on the first and third beats of each measure, semiquaver polska with a 16th-note construction characterized by an even stress on each beat of the measure and triplet polska with triplet construction in all or part), pols (East Norwegian polska of either quaver or triplet form) and halling, a Norwegian regional dance in 4/4 meter, most often danced as a man's solo, but occasionally as a couple dance.

A feast for ears and eyes…

Klacklek is:
Anders Nygårds – fiddles
Sophia Eriksson – fiddles
David Tallroth – mandola, guitar
Nana Heinberg – dancer
Jon Ellingsen – dancer

See also:
Väsen
Frifot
 

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