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Tsuumi
Avoin Kenttä (Open Field)
$17.99
A powerful mixture of folk roots and high theater come together in this creative musical ensemble, part of a larger Finnish dance theater production company of the same name. The company produces a number of performances every year in Finalnd, including the series, Folklore Show, which runs in Helsinki 4 - 5 nights a week during the summer season. In addition to this the group produces two to four new dance pieces each year, choreographed and directed by visiting professionals from different fields of dance.
The band says "The Folklore Show lies in more traditional folk dance and music while the other productions take a fresher and more experimental viewpoint. Tsuumi modernizes Finnish folk dance; it is a new boundary-breaking, refreshing force where uncompromised skill comes together with sentimentality and humor."
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Listen:
Avoin Kenttä
Katu
Kipu
Haamusarkya
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"Tsuumi is a dance group, Helsinki-based but deriving a substantial proportion of its personnel and approach from the evolution from folk-dance into classy choreography that has happened in Kaustinen with the group Ottoset and the generations it has spawned. The Tsuumi CD comprises music made for various productions by Tsuumi's band, using fiddles, viola, nyckelharpa, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonium, piano, percussion and double bass, augmented by guests as the production required.
Much of the composition is by the band's accordionist Hannu Kella, a very fine musician in the grand new Finnish tradition of mellifluous accordion subtlety. Also compositional contributors and band members, though they evidently didn't make it to the photo session, are Frigg's Antti and Esko Järvelä. (Esko is, incidentally, the son of JPP's Mauno Järvelä). Replete with syncopation and gutsy drive, and the dazzling instrumental command that's a given with the Finnish roots new-wave, the music swirls, pauses, leaps off again, echoing the changes that came about in Finnish folk dance rooted music with JPP but expanding the range of textures and instrumentation." - Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots |
The members of the ensemble:
Tommi Asplund - fiddle, viola
Antti Järvelä - Composer fiddle, guitar, duble bass, bouzouki
Esko Järvelä - fiddle, viola, keyed fiddle and harmonium
Hannu Kella - accordion, keyboards
Jussi Nikula - percussion, bass, guitar
Pilvi Talvitie - piano, harmonium, two-row accordion
Jarno Tastula - fiddle, mandolin, vocals
You should also listen to the even more avant garde music of Alamaailman Vasarat
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