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Spontaani Vire
Kaahu (The Bear)
$19.99
This Finnish band has been working together for many years, and this is their second, long-time-coming recording and it is well worth having waited for. Their mix of typically Finnish styles with some funky, adventurous sounds (Grundström's harmonium [pump organ] playing is about the most unique you will ever hear) makes this band one of the less-known marvels of the Finn folk revival. Each of these four musicians is a craftsman, each contributes arrangement ideas and original songs, and the sum is a grand transcendence of it's excellent parts.
Listen!
Kaahu
TW
Saaristolaissottiisi
Viuhu-Vilma
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Anna-Mari Kivimäki (accordion)
Eero Grundström (harmonium, piano, synth)
Emilia Lajunen (violin, nyckelharpa)
Sara Puljula (bass, percussion)
guest vocalist: Meri Tiitola (frustratingly, only on one, albeit beautiful, song!)
| "The band Spontaani Vire has been around for a few years now, but its members are still in their early twenties. Harmonium player Eero Grundström is often to be seen around the festivals and town squares of Finland energetically driving a diminutive pale blue folding harmonium, deftly replacing keys as they jump out under his fingers or occasionally getting out and under to fix the bits of string that connect its pedals to its bellows. He's also a wonderfully lyrical piano-player; there are just occasional touches of that here, plus a closing piece that reminds of the creative virtues of analog synths. The equally able other members of the quartet are accordionist Anne-Mari Kivimäki, bassist/percussionist Sara Puljula and violinist and nyckelharpa player Emilia Lajunen. Together they've made a masterly piece of work, a thing of quirkily beautifully-arranged tunes of richly varied form and texture. As with Frigg and Tsuumi, the new generation leads pelimanni-music onward in big strides." - Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots |
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