Icelandic Folk Music - Instrumental Version Of Islandsklukkur (1996)

1 	Íslandsklukkur 	3:18 	
2 	Á Sprengisandi 	3:17 	
3 	Dýravísur 	0:58 	
4 	Ólafur Liljurós 	3:36 	
5 	Ísland Farsælda Frón 	0:35 	
6 	Íslandsljóð 	3:49 	
7 	Tröllaslagur 	1:44 	
8 	Tyrkjaránið 	3:19 	
9 	Fann Ég Á Fjalli (Óskasteinar) 	2:47 	
10 	Sofa Urtubörn 	2:51 	
11 	Bí Bí Og Blaka 	2:09 	
12 	Heyr, Himna Smiður 	1:13 	
13 	Allsherjargoðinn Kvaddur 	1:56 	
14 	Ó, Mín Flaskan Fríða 	0:41 	
15 	Völuvísa 	2:42 	
16 	Sá Ég Spóa 	1:10 	
17 	Sofðu Unga Ástin Mín 	3:29 	
18 	Krummavísur 	1:05 	
19 	Íslandsvindar 	2:56 	
20 	Lilja 	1:25 	
21 	Maístjarnan 	2:31 	
22 	Ísland Er Land Þitt 	5:09

Personnel:
    Bassoon – Rúnar Vilbergsson
    Bodhrán [Bódhran], Drums, Percussion – Eggert Pálsson
    Cello – Sigurður Halldórsson
    Choir – Útilegumannakórinn
    Contrabass – Birgir Bragason
    Engineer [Recording] – Guðmundur Guðjónsson, Jens Hansson
    Fiddle – Dan Cassady
    Flute – Martial Nardeau
    Keyboards – Hjörtur Howser, Jens Hansson
    Tambourine – Egill Örn Rafnsson
    Violin – Símon Kuran

Icelandic music has a very long tradition, with some songs still sung today dating from 14th century. Folk songs are often about love, sailors, masculinity, hard winters, and elves, trolls and other hidden people. They tend to be quite secular and often humourous. Bjarni Þorsteinsson collected Icelandic folk music between 1906 and 1909. Many of the songs he encountered were accompanied by traditional instruments like the langspil and fiðla. Chain dances, known as víkivaki, have been performed in Iceland since the 11th century at a variety of occasions, such as in churches and during the Christmas season. An example is "Ólafur Liljurós", an Icelandic víkivaki folk song dating to the 14th century, about a man on his way to meet his mother who is seduced, kissed and stabbed by an elf woman while riding his horse, then eventually dies.

Iceland's isolation meant that, until the 19th century, foreign influences were virtually absent, which resulted in the maintenance of a particular rhythm, called "hákveða", lost in other Nordic countries and considered one of the main characteristics of Icelandic folk music. ---wikipedia

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