Bülows Kvartett have spent years tracing the fiddle lines of Gössa Anders Andersson, a musician from Orsa in the Dalarna region of Sweden born in 1878. Adam Bülow, a riksspelman, leads the quartet into that repertoire and out the other side: his fiddle and Ebba Rubensson‘s clarinet carry the old Orsa melodies while Joakim Wladis on double bass and Nicolas Difonis on percussion build a rhythm section that moves between progg-influenced groove and open jazz improvisation.

“Polska Efter Pellar Anna” opens with bass and murmured drums before the clarinet enters with the tune. The polska is a Scandinavian dance form with a rolling, asymmetric three-beat structure, and Andersson’s phrases carry the ornamental character of the Orsa tradition: tight melodic turns, microtonal inflections, a quality that demands a fluid acoustic frame. Clarinet and fiddle work through those phrases in close formation, trading between unison, counterpoint and improvisation while Wladis and Difonis shift beneath them.

The band are based in Malmö and recorded their debut album at Tambourine Studios there in 2024. This track is the first single from a second record due within this year, and it arrives with the confidence of a group that has already found its sound: the Orsa tradition on its own terms, with room to move.

This is the first single from an album coming within the year.

Stream “Polska Efter Pellar Anna” HERE