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Turning pop into polska

Justa a quick reminder that our broadcast time is now Fridays at 1 p.m. CT and Mondays at 7 p.m. CT on air or online at KYMNRadio.net — or anytime here on the Multe Music site.I've always said that a hallmark of a truly great melody is that it can cross genres.
I recently came across [...]

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The most frequently repeated TV programme ever

I suppose every country has its own favorite holiday shows during the Christmas / New Year holidays. And here is one that the Nordic countries adore!
Written by Lauri Wylie and starring Freddie Frinton and May Warden, the film is called Dinner For One in English and is known by other names in other countries. However, I was [...]

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A doctoral dissertation on ABBA

No, I'm not going to write it. Someone already has.
It's called "Compositional procedures in the songs of ABBA".
Philip Hauenstein was a Cambridge doctoral student when he wrote the dissertation. He says,
Basically, I was interested to know what made a good tune.

In this video clip from a 1993 TV show called "A for ABBA", [...]

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An electric Leksands skanklåt

Over the last few years, I've made a real effort to get to know more about the folk rock and progressive rock scene in the Nordic countries, particularly in the 1970s. There was some great music coming out at that time.
Kebnekajse was one of the best known Swedish bands of that period. Some classify [...]

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A thousand thoughts about Triakel…

When the Multe Music crew was in Norway, we received an invitation to go to a concert by the Swedish group, Triakel, at the wonderful cultural heritage farm in Sør-Fron, Rudi Gard. Alas, it wasn't to be…
Triakel is a group well worth experiencing live. The name has a couple of meanings. There are three members [...]

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Mamma Mia — What an interview!

I recently came across excellent videos with Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus made just prior to the opening of the Swedish production of Mamma Mia! at Cirkus in Stockholm.
The interviews are done in Swedish with English language subtitles. The interview with Andersson and Ulvaeaus is interspersed with interviews of others involved [...]

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The Only Image Of My Father

Journeyman.TV has made a number of excellent documentaries available. "The Only Image of My Father" is a compelling, personal journey of a woman into her Så¡mi roots.
Monika has never met her father. She knows only that his face was once on a Swedish stamp and that he was a Sami reindeer man, an indigenous Scandinavian. [...]

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The Colbert Report – MOVITS!

It's not often that I can say I'm ahead of Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, but in the case of MOVITS! — I can. I had already planned to feature a tune on an upcoming Multe Music show/podcast. You can be sure there'll be one this Saturday!
MOVITS! is a swing/hip-hop/jazz band from Sweden. [...]

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MOVITS!: Fel del av gården

MOVITS! is an unusual combination — a swing/hip-hop/jazz band from Sweden. I found out about them while doing some research on Swedish music and ran across their MySpace page and their YouTube channel.
It's unusual — and fun — music. The lyrics are fast paced (as you would expect with hip-hop) and seem to capture a [...]

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The farmer seeks a wife…

This week the theme for Multe Music on Saturday will be "Farm Report" and we'll feature interesting — and fun — tunes about farming and farming life. There will be tunes based on manuscripts from the Middle Ages and modern songs.
Here's one great example of a recent release, "Bonde söker fru (Farmer seeking [...]

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Herdswoman

In 2008, Journeyman.tv released a 58-minute documentary on the lives of Så¡mi women involved in hearding reindeer.
We encounter three Sami women of different generations and their lives with the reindeer herds. Their thoughts, dreams and memories show their view of lifes essential values. When a court case questions their ancient rights to reindeer pasture [...]

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Norway wins Eurovision — with a folk twist!

They did it! It's truly a "Fairytale"! Even TIME Magazine is reporting the news.
Alexander Rybak and the guys from FRIKAR, representing Norway, won the famed Eurovision contest — with no contest! — and on the eve of Norway's biggest national holiday, the 17th of May (Constitution Day / Syttende Mai).
In fact, the entry was record breaking [...]

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Eurovision goes (un)traditional Norwegian

Eurovision 2009 will begin soon — and despite reading and re-reading the Wikipedia entry on it, I still can't even begin to tell you how this song contest works!
Nevertheless, it is one of the longest running TV program in the world and millions of people watch it and vote for their favorite song.
There are two [...]

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Sax and Pellikvalsen

Pellikvalsen efter Lejsme Per Larsson (1822-1907) is a familiar Swedish waltz from Dalarna. Here it is done on a 1990 Swedish television show with a saxophone / trumpet group and a full complement of folk musicians playing fiddle, nyckelharpa and cittra.

Swedish guitarist Kenny Håkansson Sr. also recorded this on his 1978 progressive rock album "Kenny [...]

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"De Nye Gitarkameratene" gets a well-deserved parody

A while back, some Norwegian young pop stars — Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Askil Holm and Alejandro Fuentes — decided to call themselves were referred to in the Norwegian press as the "De Nye Gitarkameratene (New Guitar Buddies)".
Mind you, they are popular musicians.
But the problem is that there is already a real and original Gitarkameratene [...]

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