Documentary recording of main types of Faroese traditional, unaccompanied vocal music. "The ring-dancing singers' footstamp in a táttur, a satirical song-form, opens this CD which, in conjunction with its companion book of transcriptions, descriptions and background, is an excellent and lucid introduction to the traditional forms of the Faroe Islands. Here are examples of the three main types of ring-dance song - the heroic ballad, the folk ballad, and the táttur, sung as everything on the album, without instrumental accompaniment. Not everything is or was danced: there are skjaldur (short song-rhymes sung by adults for children), and fine, interesting church-songs, kingosálmur, in which the solo singing is melodically and rhythmically freer and more expressive than the strict-discipline religious vocalising that swamped so much of the rest of Europe, and that individualism is maintained in group singing - track 6 is a particularly spine-tingling example. This whole record, of people making music for themselves, not as a product, is a window on another musical and social world." (Andy Cronshaw, Folk Roots, UK).