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Norwegian songstress
Sinikka Langeland is known for taking the traditions of Scandinavian folk – particularly that from the Finnskogen, Norway’s “Finnish forest” – and putting them in jazz-like contexts, working with improvisers to make music of unusual and uncommon beauty. (See 2015’s
The Half-Finished Heaven for a sterling example.) On
Wolf Rune, her sixth album for ECM, she goes it alone. Armed only with three varieties of kantele (a Finnish table harp that’s like an autoharp, but with a much wider range) and her rich voice, Langeland essays a program of traditional and original tunes, plus poetry set to her own music.