ALE MÖLLER
INSTRUMENTS / SWEDISH INSTRUMENTS 1996
ALE MÖLLER: HÄSTEN OCH TRANAN
AMIGO MUSIK, AMCD 732(CD)
(P)(C)1996 AMIGO MUSIK AB, SWEDEN
RELEASED: 1996, SWEDEN
US-ISSUED AS A "THE HORSE AND THE CRANE"
NORTH SIDE, NSD6038(CD)
(C)1999 EAST SIDE, INC., USA
RELEASED: 1999, USA
CREDITS (productions) :
Music: Ale Möller / Text/Lyrics: Sara Lidman
Producer: Ale Möller / Executive Producer: Göran Peterson
Recorded at Atlantis Studio, Stockholm / Sound Engineer: Janne Hansson
Mixed by Ale Möller and Janne Hansson
Text Selection/Adaptation: Leif Sundberg / English Translation: Brian Monks
Cover Photo: Denise Grünstein/Bildhuset / All Other Photos: Martin Skoog
Original cover design: Johan Månsson/rmd for NorthSide: Graphic Remix, Erik Lehrke
The music, for the most part, has been made for the theatre-concert "The Horse and the Crane" based upon a novel-suite by Sara Lidman, Dramatized and adapted by Leif Sundberg, The Orion Theatre, Stockholm, spring '95 and '96. The texts are drawn from Sara Lidman's novel-suite about the Railway's Extension through Northern Sweden. The Railway-suite includes: "Thy servant heareth", "Children of wrath", "Naboth's stone", "A wonderful man".
CREDITS (musicians) :
Ale Möller: flutes, octave-mandlin, hammered dulcimer,
lute, shawn, harp, percussion
Roger Tallroth: guitar, octave-mandlin
Lena Willemark: vocal, fiddle, flute
Ellika Frisell: fiddle
Olle Steinholz: double-bass
chorus: Rolf Lassgård, Leif Sundberg,
Harriet Nordlund, Eva Gröndahl
on 6
TRACKS (total time 56:43) :
1. Jord och Himmel (Heaven and Earth ) (2:18)
2. Humlan (The Bumblebee ) (2:26)
3. Vita dimmor (White Mists ) (3:10)
4. Sprakfåle (The Frisky Steed ) (2:31)
5/6. Det Sjungande Berget/Saiva (The Singing Mountain/Saiva ) (3:21)
7/8. Täv/Vettlös (A Whiff/Mindless ) (3:06/1:15)
9. Glaspolskan (Glass Polska ) (4:43)
10/11. Kommer du ej snart/Svängvals (Are You Not Coming Soon/Swing Waltz ) (1:50/2:07)
12/13. Giv oss Fågel/Bakåtmarschen (Give us Fowl/The Retreat-march ) (:40)
14. Snöflöjt (Snow-flute ) (3:07)
15. Förlossningskvarnen (The Mill of Delivery ) (3:30)
16/17. Norrsken/Sällsam vals (Norhern Lights/The Singular Waltz ) (1:50/1:58)
18. Vagga Mina Moln (Rock My Clouds ) (4:13)
19/20. Himlafäste/Roshalling (The Firmament/Rose Halling ) (1:20/2:18)
21. Bröllop (Wedding ) (3:00)
22. Varifrån komma barnen (Where Do the Children Come From ) (3:50)