Like Edvard Grieg and other Bergen composers and musicians, they enjoy stealing a good traditional folk tune - and then turning it into something new. The roots of the melodies can be found in their native Norway as well as further afield. Their music is full of vitality and contrasts. It is complex beyond some inspectors' wildest dreams - but catchy and accesible. Fliflet/Hamre have created a musical landscape with a huge variety of smells and colours - but there is still an unmistakable wholeness about it. Maybe that's why people with very different musical preferences find it familiar - and yet refreshingly different.

Formed in 1991, Fliflet/Hamre has achieved a successful career utilizing an unconventional musical approach. Applauded by music critics, they've been invited to all the major jazz and folk music festivals in Norway, and have played rock, blues and classical events as well. The two friends have even had their own national TV show. Fliflet/Hamre has cooperated with a number of outstanding traditional folk & world music performers, such as Annbjørg Lien, Knut Reiersrud, The Sami yoik-singer Ingor Ántte Áilu Gaup, Peter Bastian(DK), the Värttinä founders Sari & Mari Kaasinen (FIN), Stanisa Stosic (YU) and Ambrogio Sparagna (I). They have toured Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Finland and the UK.

Gabriel Fliflet and Ole Hamre enjoy playing together, and are always searching for ways to create art and fun at the same time! In order to succeed, they have to be deadly serious...

(Source: http://kunst.no/flimre/)