In April 2022, I received an email from Mike Adcock reminding me that he had done some recordings with me in the mid-90s, with bagpipes and sjøfløyte. This caused me to dig into recordings I made at the time, but had long since forgotten. Among many strange things I found were several recordings of me playing Hardanger fiddle tunes and airs on the bagpipes. The instrument was built by Alban Faust; with a melody pipe with double reed, after a French model. Later I switched to another type, also made by Alban Faust; a model he has named the Nordic Uiellean Pipe. With this second model, I recorded an album in 2015, Den norske sekkepipa (“The Norwegian Bagpipe”), also with some hardanger fiddle tunes. So here is the sequel which was, I admit, recorded 20 years ago.


Tellef Kvifte has been part of the Norwegian music scene for almost 50 years, performing in a variety of genres on keyboards, saxes, flutes, krumhorns, bagpipes, laptops and probably a number of other instruments as well. As a professor of musicology, he also covers an equally broad range of subjects, from traditional Norwegian music to music technology.
His publications covers a large number of albums in CD/LP and digital formats CDs, both as a musician, as a producer, and occasionally also as recording engineer, in genres of traditional Norwegian music, not- so-traditional Norwegian music, contemporary jazz and noise/sound design- genres. Also, a large number of academic papers on instruments, rhythm theory, music technology and form and structure of traditional music.
Always searching for new musical challenges, Tellef continues to pick up new instruments, search for new sounds, and new collaborators. This album is a documentation of one of his many projects; lately, he has also picked up the taragot, and is expected to release an album with this instrument during 2023.