Gáman – Early and Late

Musicweb-international, Gary Higginson, 2013

This disc is such a brilliant idea – the mixing of three new works by Scandinavian composers with traditional music from three slightly varying cultures, which, let’s be honest, is a little alien to most of us in the rest of the West. I was fascinated by Rune Glerup’s Objets/décalages. It makes some extraordinary noises largely due to the high pitches used by the recorder. After a short while one gets used to that and look forward to the opening idea recurring in its rondo form. There are certainly some dance elements in the episode sections. Being surrounded, as it is, by a Danish dance and a Greenland Song (played, like everything, purely instrumentally) it did not seem to be at all out of place. Read more.