Garmarna have a unique sound: firmly based in Swedish traditional music but influenced by the rock tradition they've all grown up with. They ignore the unwritten laws of how traditional music should be performed; they know no boundaries. The music is half new - and newly-written - and half traditional with ancient instrumentation next to sampled drum-loops, suggestive mouth harps, tender violins and distorted guitars.

Garmarna are:

• Stefan Brisland-Ferner - violins, viola, hurdy-gurdy, programming, guitar
• Emma Härdelin - lead vocals
• Jens Höglin - drums and percussion
• Gotte Ringqvist - luteguitar, guitar, violin
• Rickard Westman - guitar, e-bow, bass
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Press:

• "...an unforgettable listening experience." -Billboard (May 1, 1999)
  
  
• "Once you've lifted your jaw off the floor at the way ancient and modern fit seamlessly together, you'll find yourself completely hypnotized. Music for the millennium - any millennium." - Wired (July 1999)