Storskog is traditional / spontaneous music... grown from hands and throats and hearts and ears. Ghosts of old ways, and whispers from simpler selves, given free-reign to sing and play. The band is half Swedish, half Californian (the holy alliance of beautiful places). With songs created by Mania Lozinska and Fletcher Tucker (a.k.a. Bird By Snow).

The songs themselves, sung primarily in Swedish, draw from old folk melodies and themes of ancient Scandinavian candle light, and wild west-coast redwood ranges, as well as the spontaneous discovery that is ever-present-everywhere. Instruments include: cello, jews harp, hmong harp, shruti box, guitar, hether harp, banjo, wood flute, melodica, over-tone singing, voices, chance recordings. The songs are simply an artifact of an effemeral moment, two people tuned in to the boundless generosity of life, and the ineffable good of being anything at all.

We are presenting a collection of Storskog song-happenings for free as part of our Gnome Live Free series, download it and enjoy. Oh yeah, "Storskog" means "old-growth forest" in Swedish.