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CD Review: Wessmanlandsbitar

Wessmanlandsbitar is an album by Folke Dahlgren & Bruno Andersen playing Swedish bagpipes (säckpipa) and hurdy-gurdy. The album was successfully crowdfunded in the summer of 2021 and is now released upon an unsuspecting world. It is quite simply an hour of pure drone heaven. These two musicians interweave the melodies and harmonies in and around each other as if they were one. At times it is hard to believe that there are just two musicians playing such is the richness of the arrangements....

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