Oofotr II

Oofotr II (released 2001 in Norway by Grappa Music, Heilo catalog – HCD 7169) is a Norwegian studio album by the band Oofotr performing traditional music from Ofoten, like World Ambient, in a Nordic Traditional style.

The project of presenting electronic versions of traditional music from Ofoten in Nordland, is resilient and deserve attention.

Keyboardist Jørn Øien and Arve Furset, drummer Ernst Wiggo Sandbakk and vocalist Kjersti Stubø creates intense soundscapes, heavily melody-based, but with a wide enough range of rhythms, harmonies, beats and timbres that they are far more interesting music to listen to, than a lot of other computer based music.

The term ambient world is printed on the cover, and it may so be, but the album consists of a series of fine tunes anyway.

[1][2] The review by the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet awarded the album dice 4.