Alice Babs & Svend Asmusen - Yonder in Molom (Visa i Molom)

A rather odd arrangement of this melancholic song, "Visa i molom" by Alf Hambe. The beautiful, archaic lyrics seem to have been hard to translate too. Anyways I love the melody and the singer Alice Babs is awesome, here performing with jazz violinist Svend Asmussen and Ulrik Neumann guitar, rec. in 1964.

Art by Bo Lundwall and Nikolai Astrup (18801928)

I thank the artists! and hope they won't mind :)

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Entertainment

Tags:

• folk_music
• vocal
• violin
• jazz

[Simeonseaborn]

I have tryd to find this song of Alice Babs on Spotify, but i didn't find it. Can you help me to find it . Wath is the title of the recod, or give me some other trace, please...

[xAmandine]

@Simeonseaborn I think the disc was called Scandinavian songs and made perhaps in the 60’s but that’s all i know. You may look for the “Swe-Danes” it was a group they had

[antoniod]

Is this really a Swe-danes track?

[xAmandine]

@antoniod I added that later because there's obviously a band but in fact I'm not sure who the other musicians are, i asumed it was Ulrich Neuman on guitar. I'm sorry if I got it wrong

[Elvoalven]

My mother sang this to me when I was a baby. =)

I love being Swedish.

[xAmandine]

Thank you for your comment and for suscribing! :)

[SarrasaniPianoCircus]

I didn't know this singer, and I find her fantastic. Thank you for your wonderful videos and all the best for you.

[kikkelia88]

OH THAT VOICE - I GROW UP WITH THIS "SMILING VOICE! who makes me so happy all my life... THANKS ALICE FOR YOUR REMAKABLE LIFE OF INTERPRETATIONS of the most lovely songs we have...

[kittensandtheglitz]

It's difficult to translate, not because it's archaic, but because it's poetic gibberish. :)

[VealParmigiana]

In my opinion the singing by Alice is the closest to a perfect song sung by any female vocalist.

[Beomene]

I think a more exakt translation of the swedish lyric, keeping the nonsens would be... Hmm..

"Now the hare jumps as the crows do, over the meadows white grass - Now glides the kite (as in the small bird, milvus migrans or milvus milvus) swiftly through the thickets of the fish (refering to seaweed) OR Now slips the kite upon the snowy thickets.

In long lopes and 'längslar' my body in Molom moves,

since sun and night wilt over the same isthmus."

GAAAH, you see how mindboggeling it is? *love*