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CECILIE STRANGE is Danish but, with a true Scandinavian heart, she’s been much affected by Swedish and Norwegian folk music.
Along with Swedish pianist Jan Johansen, who fuses jazz with folk melodies, she’s come up with new album Blikan, meaning “to shine” or “to appear” in Icelandic.
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