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Den vårvinterstungna fjällvinden biter hårt i kinden.
Bettet lindras något om man lägger sig på magen, ner i enrisets värmekudde. Fjällbäckarnas olika grundtoner rinner stilla samman till ett svagt ackord.
Lugnt dricker fågeln bäckens vatten.
I dess öga speglas säljflötens rop,
mungigans stampande och fiolens sträva sång.

The mountain wind heavy with Late Winter nips hard at the cheeks
The bite is somewhat softer if one lays face down in the warm pillow of the junipers
The mountain streams ́ different keynotes flow smoothly together into a faint chord
Leisurely a bird drinks from the stream
In its ́ eye is mirrowed the call of the willow-flute, the stamp of the jew ́s harp and the course song of the violin.

Recorded in Grieghallen, Bergen ,Norway 18–21 June 2007. 

Mixed by Pytten and Terje Isungset. 

Sound engineer: Pytten.

Produced by GROUPA. 

Excecutive producers: Bo Ejeby & Per Sjösten. 

Photos by Kristin Lidell .

Cover/art work by Eva Karlsson. 

Mastering by Per Sjösten, Sound Processing Studio, www.sound.se. 

1.VECKAN The week / Jonas Simonson 

2.MØRGODØGG Morning Dew / Terje Isungset 

3.PSALM / HELLBERGS MINNE Mats Hellberg in memoriam / Trad efter XX / Mats Edén 

4.DEN TYSTE The Quiet One / Mats Edén 

5.DEN VACKRE The Lovely One / Mats Edén 

6.GRAMMISHALLING Award Halling / POLSKA FRÅN SMÅLAND / LAUSSLÅTTEN /Mats Edén / Trad Småland / Trad efter Eirik Toresgaard 

7.FROST / CHOKLADPOJKARNA The Chocolate Boys /Mats Edén 

8.GLASSTRUTEN The Ice-cream Cone / Jonas Simonson 

9.LILJEKONVALJ Lily-of-the Valley /Mats Edén 

10.SKORSVIKEN Trad efter Ånon Egeland 

The way the three musicians interact is a musical alloy in which focus on detail creates magnificence. Frost offers the austerity of a winter landscape, the rippling snowmelt, and a warming fire. Frost is not for background noise, it is music that demands to be experienced in peace and quiet. Listened to with concentration, Mats Edén’s brilliant fiddle melodies, Jonas Simonsson’s drifting flute music and Terje Isungset’s innovative percussion form a sound installation in which one can delightfully lose all sense of space and time.

Released by Footprint records - Sweden 2008.

Released by All Ice Records - Norway 2020.

Combining innovative instrumentation and an ever-curious sense of improvisation with a deep love for traditional Nordic music, Groupa plays some of the most exciting folk music of our time. Using instruments such as mouth harp, overtone flutes, viola d’amore, bells, stones, wood, and melodeon, they draw fresh colors and explore new musical dimensions. In the sounds of Groupa, you will find a composed picture of the traditions of yesterday, the whims of today, and the possibilities of tomorrow.

The original band was founded as a five-piece in 1980. Through intense gigging and the releases of their first albums – Av bara farten (1983), Vildhonung (1985) and Utan sans (1988), Groupa became a vanguard of the progressive folk music scene in Sweden, along with other groups like Filarfolket. Mats Edén (fiddle, viola d’amore, hardanger fiddle, accordion) is the artistic hub and the only remaining member from its beginnings in 1980. Since then, many highly acclaimed musicians have taken part in the journey that is Groupa’s career: Leif Stinnerbom, Inger Stinnerbom, Bill McChesney, Thomas Gabrielsson, Hållbus Totte Mattson, Gustav Hylén, Rickard Åström, Tina Quartey, Helge Norbakken, Sofia Karlsson.