This is my interpretation of the chilling tale of the dance of madness that happened a long time ago in the small village of Hårga in Hälsingland, where the village's young people danced themselves to death.

The original Hårga song - one of the most renowned folk songs in Sweden - tells the story of how the Devil himself, disguised as a fiddler, entered the dance hall one Saturday evening while the village youth were revelling. This mysterious fiddler began playing a tune on his violin that entranced them all. Nowhere had they heard anything like it. They danced and danced and danced, but even as evening turned to night, they couldn't bring themselves to stop even though their bodies ached and they were getting thoroughly exhausted. Their eyes grew wild with desperation, but their feet refused to stop.

The fiddler continued to play, and the music led them up the mountain. The dance continued late into the early morning, and no one stopped dancing until their bodies were completely worn down against the mountain floor, leaving only a ring of blood where they had danced. Perhaps they could have saved their lives if only they had been a little more attentive when the stranger entered the dance hall - they failed to notice his cloven hooves.

So… What exactly was the music that the Devil played, which spellbound the young people into such a trance? This composition is my own interpretation of that haunting melody. To do the story justice I enlisted the legendary violin virtuoso Görgen Antonsson to embody the very essence of the Devil's playing.


Violin: Görgen Antonsson
Composition and production: Dyur
Mixing: Gabriel Lundh - the dome

The single cover is created by Jonas Zeidlitz.
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