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Sinikka Langeland
Biography
Norwegian folksinger, composer, jazz improviser, and kantele player Sinnika Langeland was born in southeastern Norway in 1961. She studied piano and guitar as a child but didn't discover the kantele, a 39-string Finnish table harp, until 1981, but then quickly made the instrument her own. After earning a degree in musicology from the University of Oslo in 1992, she became involved in a research project that found her searching archives for old songs and music from Finnskogen (where Langeland continues to make her home), and her findings (and of course the kantele) have informed her recorded work ever since. Langeland released her first solo album, Langt Innpa Skoga, in 1994, and it kicked off a ten-year run with the Grappa record label, which issued seven of Langeland's albums before she switched to the Nordic Sound imprint for 2004's Pasketona, an exploration of J.S. Bach's folk hymns, a theme that was extended to his chorales on her second release for Nordic, Kyriekoral, in 2005. Langeland moved to ECM Records in 2007 and released Starflowers, a set of lumberjack Hans Borli's poems given melodic form. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
Selected Discography