The Swedish city of Stockholm is spread across 14 islands. The wider Stockholm archipelago is made up of many more – something like 30,000. Islands mean bridges, and bridges mean echoes. It’s underneath some of these that Jon Collin recorded the pieces on Bridge Variations, on his secondhand homemade nyckelharpa – a traditional Swedish instrument with keys that is a hybrid of sorts between a hurdy-gurdy and a fiddle.
