Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations with other artists - artists with names such as Ghost, Espers, Damon & Naomi, Fursaxa, Tom Rapp, Lukas Ligeti, Bert Jansch, among many others. By collaborating with each other, they’ve made one of the most beautiful recordings either one of them has yet participated in. For instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. So many strings were used: 6- and 12-string guitar, banjo, cello, hurdy-gurdy, harp, contra bass, chappa Tibetan bells, Kin (Buddist metallic bowl), timpani, bass marimba, vibraphone, thunder sheet & on & on. Six of the Swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed, along with Batoh’s arrangement of Death Letter, a classic Son House delta blues song. Additionally, a European medieval tune was addressed in its own arrangement and expression. Zeranium, a dreamy folk tune that Batoh wrote for Damon & Naomi (they didn’t use it), was re-arranged for this session as well.

Track Listing
1 Polska (Polska After Pekkos Per) [instrumental]
2 Kristallen Den Fina [The Beautiful Crystal]
3 Uti Vår Hage [In Our Pasture Land]
4 Trollmors Vaggvisa [Mother Troll's Lullaby]
5 Beneath Halo [instrumental]
6 Bicinium [instrumental]
7 Zeranium
8 Jag Vet en Dejlig Rosa [I Know of a Beautiful Rose]
9 Neko Nemurenai [instrumental]
10 Death Letter
11 Kling Klang
12 Kyklopes [instrumental]

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