MobileWind/風潮muziU音樂生活網-行動產品目錄

	Introduction：
	It started in the early ninetees, when the musician Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk did some concerts with a choir from Trondheim named Chorus. Chorus had done a recording together with Arne Dagsvik from Skanland. On this record there were a couple of folk tunes from Ballangen. Sandbakk, whogrew up in this area, hadn’t been aware of this material and had no idea of its existence. Folk tunes from Ballangen and Ofoten? Marvelous!! Strangely enough, a musician educated at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim – who has great knowledge about the music life in Ofoten and Northern Norway – had never heard of the existence of a folk tune tradition from his own home area. In other words this was a well-kept secret! Luckily, a researcher of local history called Magnus Pettersen, the former head master at Ballangen Middle School, had some of this material in his own possession and passed some of it on to Sandbakk. When first listening to it, Sandbakk discovered a lot of great tunes! He found out that this material deserved to be presented to a much larger audience. Then, in cooperation with Kjersti Stubo and Jorn Oien, he tried to make arrangements of these melody lines. These arrangements were presented for the first time in the church in Kjeldebotn in June 1994. The response from the audience was overwhelming, and this led to more concerts and a lot of touring in Northern Norway. The trio “Oofotr” then performed at the biggest music festivals in Northern Norway, and in the cities Tromso, Vadso, Bodo and Harstad. Parts of the Harstad concert were also sent on TV. The project “Oofotr” had become reality! The trio name “OOFOTR” was found in the book “Ofoten 1, History in general” written by Magnus Pettersen. In the first chapter of the book, the author explains that the Ofoten area earlier had been called “Oofot”. The source here is Aslak Bolts book from around the year 1430. According to other historical sources, this geographic area also has been named Outfouden, Offotten, Aafoden, Ufot, Ofoti and Afotr. The title of the project, “Oofotr” was created in relation to these old names. In 1995 “Oofotr” released its first CD. This record was recorded live in studio, except one track which is a live recording from a concert in the church of Kjeldebotn. This CD-release was followed by several tours. After these tours, the trio started to look for more interesting material from the same district – planning to do a second record. Luckily, Sandbakk found out that Tromso Museum had some material – both tape and transcriptions. Nearly six years went on before the next CD was ready. After a long period of recording – lasting more than three years – the new CD “ oofotr II: world ambient” was finally released in February 2001, on the record company “ Heilo / Grappa”. On “oofotr II” Sandbakk, Oien and Stubo have, in cooperation with Arve Furset, created all new material based on small melody pieces from these old folk tunes. Here the melodies are not “ in front” or very easy to recognize, and many different forms of new technology has been used during the recording. This CD may be put under the label “World Music”, but the music is clearly also to other forms of contemporary music, such as Ambient and Trance. The use of samples, loops and programming added a new dimension to the music and has hopefully made the result very exiting!

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1.	meeting of the hidden	05:36

2.	land of babel	05:14

3.	the soul	04:57

4.	new world	03:34

5.	the message	06:43

6.	walking in the desert	04:02

7.	where you go	06:52

8.	poorboy	04:42

9.	the face	06:42