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February 27, 2014

Squeezebox

I’m in one of those dark Nordic moods, and so I need to listen to soul music, which— given my heritage— would be Maria Kalaniemi, virtuoso accordion player, and her composition “Skimningspolskan.

Listen closely, close your eyes, and you can just about see the dancing dwarfs lurching to the music on the shores of the mist-shrouded lake.

 

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