“Fritt efter en väg” is a musical interpretation of the six tableaux (Dala paintings) found in The Heavenly Play written by Rune Lindström.
The “dala paintings” are famous for their richly decorated floral motifs. However, another distinctive feature is the mixture of biblical motifs and the everyday life the painters saw (we’re talking about rural Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries here). From this outlook on life, Jerusalem becomes the provincial capital of Dalarna, Falun. The biblical prophets are looking into the future, sitting on a mountain farm in rural Sweden. This peculiar confusion of imagination and reality has inspired the group Strulgattu, which blends extraterrestrial and cosmic sounds with earthy and organic ones.
In Strulgattu’s interpretation of the play, the dark backdrop is also highlighted: the witch trials in Sweden that began and ended in the band’s home county, Dalarna, about 250 years ago.
TRACKS:
A1 Prolog
A2 Tinget
A3 Profeternas fäbod
A4 Herdarnas äng
B1 Salomos gästabud
B2 Den rike mannen
B3 Herrens gårdar
B4 Epilog