Reolô - Norway
Norwegian folk music in open class
Reolô are five lively multi-instrumentalists with a base in Norwegian folk music and the somewhat vague term 'open class'. Musically, Anders Røine, Hans and Rasmus Kjorstad, Hans Hulbækmo and Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard serve up everything from Norwegian folk music to rock grooves with inspiration from both West Africa and America to improvised energy outbursts. Or as Arvid Skancke-Knutsen in Klassekampen wrote: 'as if the Velvet Underground had secretly rehearsed for years in a barn'.
The quintet plays a whole bunch of different instruments, and with lyrics about prepping, a flock of sheep heading for a cliff, and a hard spring, they try to take on the contemporary. Reolô puts their soul entirely into groove, tight interplay, and old-fashioned tonality, creating a timeless soundscape – or GOOD MUSIC, if you will.
“ … there are extremely many of the same rhythmic things in Norwegian folk music that you have in, for example, West African or North African folk music. The difference is that there is not the same drumming tradition in Norway as you have there. So as soon as you put drums on a lot of the music that is from here, people think it is African!
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Hans Hulbækmo – percussion, synth, harmonica, vocals
Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard – bass
Anders Røine – vocals, guitar, langeleik, harmonica
Hans P. Kjorstad – fiddle, synth, vocals
Rasmus Kjorstad – fiddle, octave fiddle, langeleik, vocals
Concerts
Wednesday, July 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
SHELF
Larris Scene, Scandic
