Garmarna have a unique sound: firmly based in Swedish traditional music but influenced by the rock tradition they've all grown up with. They ignore the unwritten laws of how traditional music should be performed; they know no boundaries. The music is half new - and newly-written - and half traditional with ancient instrumentation next to sampled drum-loops, suggestive mouth harps, tender violins and distorted guitars.
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Links to high-resolution Quicktime videos from www.tvfolk.net. For more information about the videos, click here.
Press:- "...an unforgettable listening experience." - Billboard (May 1, 1999)
- "Once you've lifted your jaw off the floor at the way ancient and modern fit seamlessly together, you'll find yourself completely hypnotized. Music for the millennium - any millennium." - Wired (July 1999)
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