Sinikka Langeland

"The Half-Finished Heaven" is the fourth ECM album from Sinikka Langeland, the kantele player, singer and composer from Finnskogen, south-eastern Norway’s “Forest of the Finns”. The music she has written for the ensemble here touches on, as she says, her “whole scale of expression”. Sinnika’s highly original and self-contained oeuvre is informed, in changing degree, by folk traditions of Norway and Finland, as well as classical and contemporary music and improvisation from jazz and other sources. Each of her gifted bandmates brings his own range of colours to the music.

PERSONNEL:

SINIKKA LANGELAND, vocals, kantele
LARS ANDERS TOMTER, viola
TRYGVE SEIM, tenor sax
MARKKU OUNASKARI, drums, percussion

Rainbow Studio, Oslo, January 29-30, 2013

TRACKS:

01. Rare Rune
02. The Light Streams In
03. The White Burden
04. The Half-Finished Heaven
05. The Woodcock’s Flight
06. Caw Of The Crane
07. The Tree And The Sky
08. The Magical Bird
09. Hymn To The Fly
10. Animal Miniatures
11. The Blue Tit’s Spring Song
12. Animal Moment