Johannes och huldran
Artist | Nina Ödlund-Wesemeyer |
Title | Johannes och huldran |
Release Date | Thursday, May 4, 2017 |
Genre | Folk > Traditional Folk |
Copyright | © Jordnära Records |
Country | SWEDEN |
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Johannes and the Huldra - a fairytale for adults
Johannes and the Huldra- a fairytale for adultsJoin Johannes and the Huldra and get to know our roots! Nina Nu Wesemeyers reading accompanied by typical birds of the primeval forest, blended with the sounds of thunder, rain, water and wind. Accompanied by folk fiddle, willow flute, string harp, forege music, cow horn and other ancient Swedish folk music instruments, to evoke the atmosphere of the unique Nordic forest environment. Johannes and the Huldra is a very beautiful and profound novel, written by Gustav Sandgren in the 1930s. It is about man's deep ties to the forest. Johannes escapes the artificial urban environment. Outside an old deserted forest hut he sits and waits, he wants to get hold of life itself. The more still and silent he becomes, the deeper harmony he reaches. After a while, the forest - personified and condensed in the form of the Huldra, can come to him. She is full of longing, just like he is, and they become united "in the filled moment that always has been and always is and must be, the room, by which time passes like a distant roaring case". The forest has its own life, which makes it both attractive and daunting. In the old times, enchanted stories were told by charcoal burners, who has spent many days alone in the forest, about encounters with the wood fairy or the Huldra. Their stories keep living in our days. Welcome to the country border where much of our most original music, culture and storytelling tradition emerged - the meeting between the forest and human.Nina Nu Wesemeyer, project manager for Huldrans Natt since its inception in 1990www.huldransnatt.se