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1 The Music

The band is Finnish, but hails from a Swedish-speaking area on the Swedish speaking area of Finland, West Coast of Finland ( Ostrobothnia), a fringe geographical area where 50% of the people speak Swedish.

The music of the band remains Swedish in character. Most of their repertoire is the acoustic folk music of these Swedish-speaking Finns, from the unique minuets and ballads that have only survived in Ostrobothnia, to the old traditional waltzes. The didgeridoo offers an underlying drone, a technique shared by some other Nordic bands such as Garmarna. The music of Gjallarhorn is still much mellower and dreamy than Garmarna's.

The narrative of Gjallarhorn's songs spring primarily from Nordic mythology. The GjallarhornThe Gjallarhorn is the horn in Nordic mythology with which the gatekeeper god, Heimdal, sent messages from the gods of Asgard to the mortals of Midgard. The name of the horn is related to the word gjala which means "to shout" or "to sing out. A Norwegian is the horn with which the gatekeeper god, Heimdal, sent messages from the gods of Asgård to the mortals of Midgård. The name of the horn is related to the word gjala, which means "to shout" or "to sing out."

2 Band members

The current members of the band are:

• Petter Berndalen , percussion.
• Adrian Jones , violaString instruments Alternate uses: Viola (disambiguation The viola is a stringed musical instrument which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the violin and the lower lines played by the cello and double bass, mandolaA mandola is a stringed musical instrument. Mandolas have 8 strings, in 4 pairs. Each pair of strings is tuned in unison, and are a fifth apart from adjacent pairs, giving an identical tuning to a viola (C-G-D-A low-to-high), a fifth lower than a mandolin, kalimba.
• Tommy Mansikka-Aho , didgeridoo, slideridoo and Jew's harp.
• Jenny Wilhelms, vocals, fiddle and hardangerfiddle.

3 Discography

3.1 Albums

• Ranarop, 2003
• Sjofn , 2001
• Grimborg , 2000

4 Similar bands and artists

• Garmarna
• Hedningarna
• Loituma
• Sanna Kurki-Suonio or Sanna
• Värttinä
• Väsen