"Å kjøre vatten, og kjøre ved" - a Norwegian children's song with a Caribbean beat

"Å kjøre vatten, og kjøre ved" by a group from Stavanger called Vindrosa recasts a classic Norwegian children's song with a Caribbean steel band rhythm ... "fra VINDROSA´s album "Østenfor sol" som nå er ute (release 15. februar 2011). Se også www.vindrosa.no.

Vindrosa has its ultimate origins in a 1980s ska-reggae band ... two of its members got together in recent years in Stavanger and cut the record, with singer-songwriter Stina Kjeland fronting the band, which also features Moroccan hand drums, a kletzmer-style clarinet and more traditional stringed instruments like a bouzouki. According to the blurb on their website, they are a sort of Norwegian/world music combo:

The songs they chose are all traditional Norwegian folk songs well known to most of the above-forty generation of Norwegians, but maybe lesser known to younger people. These songs have been dressed up in foreign clothes and scented with exotic fragrances so that they now appear new and fresh, but also familiar. Hopefully this new appearance will cause many people to rediscover these wonderful songs and also give them the new audiences that they very well deserve.

Another version. Andy Irvine, an Irish singer, sings same melody to new lyrics ... "I drove to Oslo on a winter's night ..." osv. @ Dent Folk Festival 2009 ... nice, bright bouzouki backing his voice. Cute lyrics.