Strømmen Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band

• 1Over Havet03:45
• 2Strømmen05:22
• 3Så mange forskellige hænder03:36
• 4Boy Under Lime Tree03:46
• 5Angst03:26
• 6Carls vals03:48
• 7Vær tålmodig04:03
• 8Dansevise02:58
• 9Den hvide hjort02:31
• 10Den første sne - Den sidste vinter05:06
• 11En yndig og frydefuld sommertid03:36
• 12Stranden04:34
• Total Runtime46:31

Info for Strømmen

A stream of music, poetry and life flows through Danish singer Helene Blum & fiddler Harald Haugaard's first joint album. A stream where the individual word, the tone and the individual human being are part of something bigger. Is part of an effervescent stream that has flowed through music, traditions and people for centuries.

Blum & Haugaard themselves have written music and lyrics for much of the album, which also includes new music for poems by some of Denmark's famous poets and original reinterpretations of traditional Danish folk music. Dreamy songs about seductive love, anxiety or eternal Nordic summer nights meet racy and innovative instrumental pieces.

Strømmen "The Stream" has been recorded in the legendary Copenhagen Medley Studio in collaboration with Blum & Haugaard's own band, which since the beginning of 2008 has traveled Europe, North America and Japan thin with their integrity, virtuosity and presence and won the audience's ears and hearts from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg for major Canadian summer festivals. The Blum & Haugaard Band has won numerous awards such as. the European folk award "Eisener Eversteiner" and has become one of Denmark's most sought after ensembles internationally.

Cellist Kirstine Elise Pedersen, guitarist Mikkel Grue and percussionist Sune Rahbek complete Blum & Haugaard's musical universe of through-musical play joy with immediate (unmittelbare) music that doesn't have to go through the brain to go directly into the soul and hit the roots of the audience. Their music is timeless, but still lets the story flow in the future, and is at one and the same time boring and yet strangely innovative.

In continuation of "Strømmen", Blum & Haugaard will tour and hit concert halls, festivals, churches and venues in Europe and North America during 2020 and 2021. Everyone is invited into the flow of music and poetry.

Helene Blum, vocals, violin
Harald Haugaard, violin
Kirstine Elise Pedersen, cello
Mikkel Grue, guitar
Sune Rahbek, drums

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard
belong to Denmark’s best and busiest musicians, since they played more than 500 concerts within the past five years – most of them abroad. Their band consists of violoncellist Kirstine Elise Pedersen, guitar player Mikkel Grue and drummer Sune Rahbek. Together they form all aspects and the dynamic of Blum’s and Haugaard’s repertoire. When they opened the Tönder festival in August 2014 with a great concert, the Danish daily paper „Jyske Vestkysten“ called it a „musical firework“.

Now, Helene Blum will be on tour with her new solo album „Dråber af tid / Droplets of Time“. Many of the songs were written and produced by herself and manifest her personal handwriting and multilateral musicianship. Deeply impressed by the traditional and modern nordic Folk, Helene Blum also flirts with Pop, opens herself up to Jazz and gets inspired by the art of singing/songwriting. She develops her own vision out of the tradition into a contemporary sound.

Four years have passed since her last solo album „Men med åbne øjne“ appeared. Many of the new songs are about time: about lost time but also about passed and future moments. And they are about turning points that are able to change life completely. Furthermore, the songs are about the course of time, since Helene Blum composed love songs but also one song about the Danish-German-War 1864, ”Et øjebliks stilhed”. However, there are also new arranged traditional songs as ”Som stjernerne på himlens blå”. While other songs are inspired by Danish poetry as „En lille Dråbe Blod”. With a text from Sophus Claussen Helene Blum marks a strong and moving start for her album.

Helene Blum’s songs are completed on album and tour through Harald Haugaard, who is one of Denmark's best musicians for more than 15 years. His virtuous way to play the fiddle connects easiness with a richness of sounds. His compositions are contemporary, original and deeply rooted within the Danish tradition.

This album contains no booklet.