Anne Hytta - Gjennom dagen (2022)

Anne Hytta (b. 1974) is an award-winning hardanger fiddle player and composer from Sauland in Telemark, living in Oslo. The old repertoire for hardanger fiddle is the starting point for her musical work today. She works as a soloist and ensemble musician in various contexts from medieval music to improv and contemporary music. Hytta received the Spellemann Prize in 2015 and 2017 for the albums short stories with the trio Slagr, and the solo album Strimur. In 2018, Hytta was named Folk Musician of the Year during the event Folkelarm. Folk musician and composer Anne Hytta continues to impress, and not least surprisingly, with her determined innovative search for, among other things, the soul of Hardingfela.

The album was recorded a few spring days in Gamle Aker church, accompanied by Oslo's own soundscape of small birds, distant human voices and the faint rustle of endless movement. On Saturday 26 March, she will play a release concert with a performance of Gjennom dagen on the National Stage in Oslo, on which most of the music on the album is based. In the performance, Hytta plays music in different tonal landscapes, with lighting design, video and stories included with the music.

On the album, Hytta uses three fiddles that are tuned in three different voicings, providing different sounds and moods: the bright, dreamy sound of bell-quiet on an old, overtone-rich fiddle from 1860; the powerful, insistent yet understated sound of a fiddle that Hytta’s fiddle teacher, Einar Løndal, built in the 1980s; and the evocative, dark sound of gorrlaus on a 12-string Chinese fiddle, converted into a hardanger fiddle here in Norway (“gorrlaus” is a kind of tuning, originating in Setesdal, notable for the low tuning of the bass string to F instead of the usual A or G).

Tracklist:
1 01. Anne Hytta - Gryr (00:48)
1 02. Anne Hytta - Til glenna (04:01)
1 03. Anne Hytta - Regnfall (01:10)
1 04. Anne Hytta - Vindøyet (03:39)
1 05. Anne Hytta - Soria (03:07)
1 06. Anne Hytta - Skumre (03:16)
1 07. Anne Hytta - Bregda (02:40)
1 08. Anne Hytta - Taggslått (01:46)
1 09. Anne Hytta - Rust (01:02)
1 10. Anne Hytta - Glar sol (02:56)
1 11. Anne Hytta - Så (01:18)
1 12. Anne Hytta - Lysegrønn (03:27)
1 13. Anne Hytta - Glime (02:08)
1 14. Anne Hytta - Dagning (02:18)