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KardemimmitKaisla (frigg) Produced by Antti Järvelä (Frigg JPP), this young band focuses on the kantele but with interesting new compositions inspired by Finnish folk traditions. Highly recommended.
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More info: Andrew Cronshaw writes in fRoots: Kardemimmit's 2006 attractive first album was made when they were teenagers, taught by Kaustinen-born kantele player Sanna Huntus, and they're not much older now, but unlike many very young groups they've kept going, and the music and approach, with production and recording this time by Frigg's and JPP's Antti Järvelä, is maturing. Virtually all the material is their own composition, while derived from runo-song and other Finnish traditions and often using traditional lyrics. There's a new muscularity and shades of darkness in the playing and vocals, their young-girl voices hardening to stridency; after all, among the subject matter are drunken and dead sweethearts and the Maiden of Death. The interplay of their ringing, chiming kanteles makes a very full accompaniment, slightly augmented on a couple of numbers by touches of saw or throat-singing, and fiddle and banjo pitch in on the energetically celebratory hoedown style closer.
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