Prisme

Prisme is the third studio album by Norwegian Hardanger fiddler and nyckelharpa player Annbjørg Lien. Released internationally on 25 October 1996 through the Norwegian Grappa label, it was released on March 18, 1997, in North America through Shanachie Records. In a decidedly more "modern" approach, Lien, alongside longtime bandmates and collaborators Bjørn Ole Rasch and Roger Tallroth, and woodwinds player Hans Fredrik Jacobsen, weave together ancient sounds and imagery with more modern arrangements. In a departure from her previous album, Felefeber: Norwegian Fiddle Fantasia, which features a traditional reperoite of tunes, the majority of Prisme features music which is composed by either Lien herself or together with Rasch. Lien experiments with different rhythms and time signatures on this album, such as her own piece “Fønix”, an almost Spanish/flamenco-sounding tune in 7/8 time, or the lively “Fløteren”, which changes time signature repeatedly, switching between 5/8 and 2/4. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisme) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)