Sver / Fryd
Album: Fryd   Collection:World
Artist:Sver   Added:Feb 2017
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-02-15 Pull Date: 2017-04-19 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Apr 23 Apr 16 Apr 9 Apr 2 Mar 26 Mar 19 Mar 12 Mar 5
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 20, 2022: At the Cafe Bohemian (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2017)
Bow In The Eye
4. Dec 15, 2021: At the Cafe Bohemian (rebroadcast from Apr 5, 2017)
Fryd
2. Feb 18, 2022: At the Cafe Bohemian (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2017)
Bow In The Eye
5. May 10, 2018: Melange
Falsk Vals, Fryd
3. Jan 13, 2022: Old Fart at Play (rebroadcast from Feb 18, 2017)
Lompa Koyre Traktor
6. Jul 13, 2017: Melange
Fryd

Album Review
Margy Kahn
Reviewed 2017-02-08
Five talented young Scandinavian musicians punch up the old acoustic sub-genres so they sound almost electric; “Fryd” means “joy;” if purely instrumental music can have a sense of humor, this music has it. Very danceable.

No FCC's (all instrumental); Favorite tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

1 – Lompa Koyre Traktor – 4:35 – fiddle and guitar lead off; heavy drums and accordions come in to ground the lovely fiddles – “Lompa Drives a Tractor”

*2 – Fryd – 4:39 – definitely joyful, upbeat and playful

**3 – Ruf – 2:43-- rollicking and danceable with a turning waltz in the middle

*4 – Falsk Vals –3:58 – waltz with some bent notes; drum punches it up; simmers down at end

*5- Sumarkveld I Nivlheim –5:25 – crashing chords start off and then goes to quiet of “Summer Evening in Nivlheim” and picks up into rocking beat

**6 –Total Carnage - 3:59 – compelling tune in tribute to the Shetland Folk Festival; very fast with lots of percussive effects

*7 – Massa Ti Nassa – 3:37 – “Moss in the Nose” – almost jazz-like; fast with scat singing

8 –Fuggeln – 3:16 – “The Bird” - traditional –very fiddle-centric

*9 – Mysoxen –4:02 - “The Cozy Ox” – nice percussive and fiddle start; you can almost see and feel those oxen dancing

*10-- Bow in the Eye –5:58 – “occupational hazard,” ; more joy

**11—Sova – 5:28 – “Sleep” – very pretty violin line over viola

Track Listing
1. Lompa Koyre Traktor   6. Total Carnage
2. Fryd   7. Massa Ti Nassa
3. Ruf   8. Fuggeln
4. Falsk Vals   9. Mysoxen
5. Sumarkveld I Nivlheim   10. Bow In The Eye
  11. Sova