idun blome'

chuck in ny · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:20 pm Post subject: idun blome'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVe1r4HPj7Y

this is gunhild's daughter. as well as vocals she is currently playing trombone. 'idun' (e-den) is the name of a norse goddess who is the keeper of the magic apples that the norse gods eat for immortality.
the band started with granddad hans, a famous swedish jazz and legit trumpter who passed in 2017. his wife aina plays the banjo. then their kids, gunhild, max, ulf, ulf's piano/bone/sax playing wife gerd, and the outstanding generation of extremely talented grandkids.
idun has the stuff to be the feature artist in the future so the family band will persist. there is no lack of big pipes and instrumental ability in the new generation.

HERMOKIWI · Heavyweight Member Joined: 24 Dec 2008 Posts: 2581

Gunhild is unbelievable. What trumpet does she play? It looks like an Olds Ambassador.

Idun has a ways to go on the vocals. She doesn't swing........yet. That will come, especially with the tutors she has. However, she looks like she's having fun. That and being with family are the most important things.

The Carling Family Band is great!
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chuck in ny · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:39 am Post subject:

sure. in that video idun needs a lot of microphone. the thing is that she has the attitude and reminds me of a young gunhild. when gunny was a young girl you could see the fascination of performing and getting adulation in her eyes.
idun is now a young lady and is doubling with the alto sax. she has been growing into a dancer all along. a bigger voice, a lot more vaudeville dancing, and gunhild's raw sexuality, all that comes in time.
in a similar way there are videos of her brother viggo blome' singing. as a boy you get the power and purity of his tone and he too is much older now. he is reminiscent of his uncle max who at 9 or 10 played clarinet with a lot of strength.
with idun in the young miss stage she and the band cover that tune nicely and i can't find another performance that is more pleasing. so. imagine what we are in for in the future.

tptptp · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:13 am Post subject:

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Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:30 am Post subject: Re: idun blome'

chuck in ny · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:11 pm Post subject:

thanks seymour nice to see hans in an earlier incarnation. mostly we see him in the band's videos as an old gent, needing to sit while playing, having very short solos, and evidently ailing.
what i can't quite figure is the band's many multi instrumentalists. gunhild of course has gone totally berserk. max, with his reed playing and evidently a classically trained violinist. gerd, probably a jazz pianist that ulf marries and then she has to fit in and picks up sax and trombone. and so on..
the singing and dancing is totally vaudeville inspired, but.... max is a juggler, acrobat and tightrope walker, ulf is a juggler and acrobat, max's daughter nanna is somewhat of an acrobat/balancer. there is always the sense that no matter what the band does, something is being held back. the clarinet players in our bands don't tightrope walk, so whatever this stuff is about.
there is an excellent video of these crazies performing music and circus skills on youtube, something like the carling family does medieval music. gunny plays the zink, an early trumpet precursor.

cgaiii · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:42 pm Post subject:

More great stuff from the Carling family band. It is wonderful to see this music so alive and the family band moving into a third generation. Great entertainment, great band, what a musical family.
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