Tummel


Tummel is a Swedish/Danish klezmer band formed in 1997. Tummel plays music that combines traditional klezmer sounds with influences from jazz and the folk music of Sweden and the former Yugoslavia.

Albums

Tummel has released three albums: their debut Oy! appeared in 2001, Transit came out in 2004, and Payback Time in 2009.
As the cover of Oy! shows, Tummel combines a range of jazz instruments including flute and tuba.

Lineup

The band's lineup has changed several times. It started out as Annika Jessen on clarinet and vocals, Jonathan Aisen drums and percussion, Pär Moberg on saxophone, Øvind Alexander Slaatto on helicon, Tobias Allvin on guitar and bouzouki, Andreas Rudenå, violin and guitar and Edin Bahtijaragić on accordion.

Reception

Chris Nickson, writing on CD Universe, praises Tummel's lively performance: "A Danish/Swedish band with no deep Jewish roots playing klezmer? Well, why not, especially when it's done as well as Tummel does on Klezmer."
Robert M Tilendis, writing in Green Man Review, is impressed by Tummel:
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Tilendis in particular praises vocalist Jens Friis-Hansen:
Eelco Schilder, reviewing Tummel's Oy on Folkworld CD Reviews, writes:
Ben Ohmart, writing in The Muse's Muse, comments playfully that
Alexander Agrell, reviewing Payback Time in the Sydsvenskan newspaper, notes that the lineup has changed, but awards the album a "Plus for humour, cool English lyrics and the originality of the whole thing". He hears influences from rock music, punk, heavy metal, cabaret and even Tom Waits in the album.
A staff reporter from Skanskan.se described the experience of arriving at a Tummel gig: "The desire to dance and clap in time arises immediately. Your thoughts turn to blazing camp fires and swirling skirts."

Sydsvenskan articles

a performance by the band has been broadcast as "Veckans konsert" on Swedish national television