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Väsen & Hawktail is out now!

This release is a collaboration between Padiddle Records and Olov Johansson Musik. Here are the liner notes written by Robert Simonds of NorthSide Records:

The music of Väsen is foundational to the members of Hawktail. They avidly followed (and played) it as teenagers, and then as they moved through their music education and early professional careers. Encountering these young musicians at festivals, Väsen quickly recognized and appreciated the talents and clever musical inventiveness of Hawktail. Aspirations to collaborate rarely advance beyond the idea stage: “let’s try to do something together sometime!”

But in this instance an application by Väsen to the Swedish Arts Council resulted in funding for two collaborative tours (one each in Sweden and the U.S.), which laid the groundwork for yet more touring and a week of recording in Sweden. Let’s hope it’s just the beginning of a long and fruitful musical relationship.

This set, honed by those first tours, combines original tunes already established in each of the band’s repertoires (but newly arranged for this 5-piece ensemble), with freshly composed music for the collaboration. Usually the tune is a polska, that infinitely variable 3-beat rhythm that permeates Swedish traditional music, and universally just gets under your skin. In the hands of these five enormously talented acoustic musicians, it’s like mining for joy.

-Robert Simonds

#folkmusic #newmusicalert #hawktail #väsen #fiddle #guitar #bass #nyckelharpa #bassviola #shouldercello #swedish #american #instrumental by @hawktailband

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2 years ago

When I decided to take All My Friends on the road, I knew I needed to have a small ensemble that would be able to get inside the heart and soul of the songs. Hawktail was a natural choice. Reuniting with my Crooked Still bandmate Brittany Haas, along with my comrades Paul Kowert on bass and Jordan Tice on guitar, has been sheer joy. Together, we took these songs apart and put them back together again with new life and different shades of meaning. We also resurrected an old song of mine from 2004, one that I had recorded in the Hudson Valley with my old band Sometymes Why. Brittany wrote a gorgeous fiddle tune to go with it, and it became “Middle/The River that Runs Both Ways”. It’s the perfect addition to the five songs from All My Friends.

Listen to our first single “America, Come” now! Aoife O’Donovan & Hawktail Play All My Friends is out August 16 🤍💜💛 by @hawktailband

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So excited to tell you about all the AMAZING artists that has inspired us to make this album. These band and artists are all incredible tunewriters and musicians and we are so thankful that they were willing to let us cover their music. Check out their music and get inspired and excited 😀🎻🔥❤️ by @hawktailband

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a year ago

To all Grammy voters- please consider the @vasenduo @hawktailband album in these categories. by @hawktailband

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a year ago

Thank you @tonderfestival and thank you @vasenduo !! taken in Tønder, Denmark by @hawktailband

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🎻An old traditional tune from Brittany Haas and Jordan Tice, recorded many years ago in the D'Addario studio. ⁠
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💎What gems can you uncover on the D'Addario Orchestral YouTube channel?⁠
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🗺️Go and find out! - link in bio⁠
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#throwback taken in New York - New York by @hawktailband

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a year ago

Happy birthday to the maestro himself! We love you, Phat P! by @hawktailband

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a year ago

Happy birthday to big J! We welcome him to the year 38. Hard to believe this big boy’s the baby of the band. Send him some love! 🎸🐶 by @hawktailband

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a year ago

Excited to announce we’ll be at @tonderfestival in Denmark this August! We’ll be playing sets with @vasenduo as well as our own. Cant wait to be a part of this great lineup! taken in Tønder, Denmark by @hawktailband

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2 years ago

Congratulations to our friends Väsen and Hawktail! Their CD just won the Swedish Grammy (Grammis) for Best Folk Album of the Year.🎉👏 by @hawktailband

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We won a Swedish Manifest Award with “Väsen & Hawktail”! Olov and Mikael were predictably cute accepting the award (although I can’t understand anything they said).

Posted @withregram • @olovnyckelharpa Det här var ju fantastiskt skoj! Väsen & Hawktail vann årets Folkmusik på Manifestgalan igår kväll.

Väsen & Hawktail – Väsen & Hawktail (Olov Johansson Musik & Padiddle Records)

”När uppländska polskor färdas över Atlanten och möter bluegrass och amerikansk oldtime uppstår en musikalisk fusion som känns både självklar och nyskapande. Två traditionsrika uttryck flätas samman, och resultatet blir större, djärvare och mer svängigt än vi hört på länge. I detta samspel uppstår en gnista som förnyar och fördjupar folkmusiken på båda sidor av havet.”

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@eriklarssonphotography by @hawktailband

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What a wonderful whirlwind trip to the UK for @celtic_connections this past weekend! We had a blast playing City Halls with @vasenduo. Thanks to all who came out and to Kenn Stewart for this picture of our unplugged encore. taken in Glasgow, Scotland by @hawktailband

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