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Mats Edén (Sweden)
Mats Eden's notes on the tunes
- "Havonnen" is a polska from Lekvattet, Varmland from the playing of Oskar Julius Nilsson. This tune is a so called ABC-tune. If you can play this, you are a master. I met Oskars Julis' son, Oskar on the street, in the early 1980s when I was living in Arvika. At that time I was wearing a beard and mustasche at the same time, and Oskar didn’t like that. So he turned on a said to me, "You are ugly, you like like a crossing between a lark and a herring!” (played on a Saltarello A melodeon)
- This "Vals" is my first original composition on melodeon. (Saltarello A melodeon)
- A "Rejländer" from Norway after Oskar Andersson from Mangskog. (Saltarello A melodeon)
- A "Halling from Gräsmark" after Höpsi Kersti, an old woman that liked to sing this halling. (Castagnari in G)
- "Ja de gör vi" is my own composition. (Martin in F)
- This is an improvisation on my 3 row L’Imagineire. I lost my ……everything the last day of the session. So I did not want to play on one more accordeon. The L’Imagineire was number 7! But the soundman, Mats Hellberg, just told me to play some improvisations just for fun.