Turas, by Marit and Rona

Turas

by Marit and Rona

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Jorgon Gorgon The most beautifully awesome blend of Scottish and Swedish sounds, spacious and stormy like the North Sea. From two of my favourite musical traditions, sheer awesomeness.

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1.	Fhuair mi Pog 05:08	buy track
2.	Tobar Tobar 03:59	buy track
3.	Kilmartin Glen Campsite 07:54	buy track
4.	Bodach 02:28	buy track
5.	The Reels 03:56	buy track
6.	Psalm 107 04:00	buy track
7.	Rory's Dinosaur Jumper 06:07	buy track
8.	Seo a' bhliadhna 03:24	buy track
9.	New England Fireman 04:53	buy track
10.	Tha Bo Dhubh Agam 05:16	buy track

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Not everything has been done before. At least not in music. Which is something of a marvel.

The debut album from Marit Fält and Rona Wilkie melds tunes and songs from their separate geographical backgrounds to create a new music that’s uplifting, daring and harmonious.

Turas explores the rarely probed similarities between Scandinavian and Scottish Highland tunes – colouring them with songs from both traditions. But this isn’t academia. Marit and Rona’s music is playful, borderless and thrilling. It glides from evocative near-classical movements through elegant polskas to buoyant reels, brought to life by Rona’s multi-personality fiddle virtuosity and Marit’s breath-taking mastery of the versatile låtmandola.

The duo fell into playing together when they were studying in Newcastle, although they’d met before on a week-long course at Ethno Scotland. In 2012 they won the coveted Danny Kyle Award at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections Festival and Rona was named BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year.

While the musical relationship between Scandinavia and the Northern Isles of Scotland has been investigated before, there were fewer creative unions between those countries and the Highlands. And it’s that which fused Marit and Rona’s collaboration.

“The way that the Gaelic and Norwegian and Swedish languages are sung is very similar, and the melodies are similar as well,” Rona explains. “But we’re also exploring the differences in the music – in the tempos, time signatures and even the tone of the instruments.”

The låtmandola (or Nordic mandola) was created for both accompaniment and melody. This inspired Marit and Rona to take the same approach to the cittern, violin, viola and Hardanger fiddle (to name a few) – at times turning their traditional usage upside down. Similarly their voices add melodic and rhythmical layers, and contrasting tones – instruments in their own right.

Joining them on several tracks is the bewitching percussion of Allan Òg MacDonald and the deliciously sweeping strings of the Cantilena Quartet – playing Marit and Rona’s own arrangements. The album was produced by the renowned musician, singer and broadcaster Mary Ann Kennedy.

The title – Turas – means the same in Swedish as in Gaelic: to take turns. It was chosen for its ease of pronunciation in English too. Because the music of Marit and Rona translates simply and poignantly to all audiences, no matter their nationality, background or experience.

It’s something of a marvel.

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released December 4, 2013

Marit Falt, Rona Wilkie, Allan Macdonald, Cantilena String Quartet

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Marit Fält and Rona Wilkie meld tunes and songs from their separate geographical backgrounds of the Highlands and Scandinavia to create a new music that’s uplifting, daring and harmonious. The duo fell into playing together when they were studying in Newcastle. In 2012 they won the coveted Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections and Rona was named BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year. ... more

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