March 27th, 2010: Majorstuen

@abbesses

First part of a double-header day, and a confusing one. Majorstuen come from Norway, and I don’t know anything about their culture. No matter how much I tried to keep an open mind, I kept thinking of other countries. But not a single one. The higher notes reminded me or Irish music, but the lower ones reminded me of Iceland.

That was most obvious in one of the first songs, with them sticking to lines related to the height of their fiddle notes, and for me to the kind of music I could stuff it in. I was thankful they didn’t stick to that scheme for too long.

They did a little too much for my taste in terms of moving around, with the exception of Andreas Ljones who seemed to be just doing his own thing, and I totally get that.

Apart from this I cannot really tell much. Both too familiar yet different, I would like another take now that I know what to expect. I was often fooled into complacency by the sound of the fiddle, but there were unexpected forays too. I should have done my homework.