NORDIC LIGHTS IN PERSIAN SKY
Soundscapes between East and West

1 And the Glacier Answers Quietly
Traditional from Hardanger 4:12

2 Vetla jento mi
Traditional from Hardanger 2:54

3 Dance of the Wind
based on "Reng-e Farah" from the Persian radif 5:17

4 Huldreslåttar
Traditional from Hardanger 6:26

5 Dâya Dâya & Brureslått
Traditional from Lorestan and Sogn 5:04

6 Moonlight - Mahtâb
Benedicte Maurseth & Kiya Tabassian 6:27
poem by Nima Youshij (1897–1960)

7 Den 4. Gorrlausen
Traditional from Setesdal 3:33

8 Shooting Stars in the Wide Sk
Benedicte Maurseth 1:08

9 Timeturning & Along with the Breeze
Benedicte Maurseth & Kiya Tabassian 4:03
poem by Hafez (14th c.)

10 Summer Solstice
Benedicte Maurseth 3:22

11 Bâz Âmadam
Kiya Tabassian, poem by Rumi (13th c.) 6:29

12 Nordic Dreams
Traditional Lullaby from Setesdal 10:07

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About this album

Benedicte Maurseth is an important figure in the Norwegian folk music scene as a composer, performer and author. While her music is rooted in the rich tradition of the Hardanger fiddle, it also reflects an open approach to creativity and the present. Together with Kiya Tabassian and Patrick Graham, she delves here into vast soundscapes of pure, muted colors and rhythms that are by turns contemplative and frenzied, transporting and navigating through captivating, imaginary worlds without borders from north to south and east to west.