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In the notrhern Scandinavia we have seen greed taking over sense in men. Will it ever end?

This means that foreign companies can fly in, exploit areas and then just fly out again. The local population is left with clean-up costs stretching to millions of krona, and land and water – the foundation of the Sami – is laid to waste. For Maxida the album is a way of expressing what’s going on in the north of Sweden: “Everything is politics, you can’t escape it. This is evident in bluegrass since it originates in the working class. I understand musicians who only want to sing about summer and sunshine but that artist is not me. I don’t believe anybody thinks I am either” Maxida Märak says.