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Vihma
''Vihma'' is Värttinä's 7th album, released in 1998. It is primarily pop- and rock-influenced Finnish folk music. However, three tracks (6, 8 and 9) also include Tuvan throat singing. ''Vihma'' was initially released by Wicklow Entertainment in the United States and Finland. Later in 1998, it was released in Japan by BMG Japan. In the same year, "Emoton" was released as a single in Finland. Track listing #"Vihma" – 4:04 #"Tielle heitetty" – 2:56 #"Emoton" – 3:32 #"Päivän nousu nostajani" – 3:42 #"Laulutyttö" – 3:32 #"Uskottu ei uupuvani" – 5:05 #"Maa ei kerro" – 3:01 #"Kylän kävijä" – 4:01 #"Mieleni alenevi" – 2:57 #"Neitonen" – 2:56 #"Aamu" – 4:40 #"Kauan kulkenut" – 3:19 #"Vihmax" ("Vihma" remix) – 3:32 Personnel Värttinä *Susan Aho - vocals, 5-row accordion *Mari Kaasinen - vocals *Kirsi Kähkönen - vocals *Janne Lappalainen - bouzouki, kaval, torupill, tenor & soprano saxophones *Pekka Lehti - double bass *Kari Reiman - fiddle, 10-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Värttinä
Värttinä (, meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band since then. Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1991 album ''Oi Dai''. As of 2009, the band consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians. The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language. In August 2005, Värttinä recorded their tenth studio album called '' Miero'' at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki. It was released on 25 January 2006 in Finland, and 30 January 2006 worldwide. In 2006, Värttinä also released the Värttinä Archive Live DVD, which included material from their 20th anniversary concert and other new and archive material. Värttinä collaborated with A. R. Rahman, a notable Indian composer, in composing the music for the theatrical adaptation of ''The Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Aho
Susan Aho (born 5 March 1974) is a Finnish folk music singer-songwriter and a member of the Värttinä music group. In 2010, she represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as part of the duo Kuunkuiskaajat. Biography Susan Aho was born in Espoo, in Southern Finland, near the capital Helsinki. Having played the accordion since she was 13, Aho joined Värttinä in 1998, replacing Riitta Kossi, and was the accordionist and a vocalist on their album ''Vihma''. By the next album, ''Ilmatar'' (2001) she confined herself to singing, having been replaced as accordionist by Markku Lepistö. She studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and is involved in a variety of other projects besides Värttinä. For example, she was vocalist and accordionist in the Greek group Odysseia, was a member of the folk band Metsänväki, and with the Finnish accordionist Minna Luoma played Finnish gypsy songs in the group Rotunaiset. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Balkan-Finnish gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmatar (album)
''Ilmatar'' is Värttinä's 8th album, released in 2000. The album is named for the Finnish goddess of air Ilmatar who, according to the creation story in the ''Kalevala'', creates the world from two eggs from the eagle Kokko (which is also the name of an earlier Värttinä album). A version of this story (in English and Finnish) is printed in the liner notes of the United States release. Track listing #"Itkin" ( Pekka Lehti / Kirsi Kähkönen, Mari Kaasinen, traditional) – 5:20 #"Käppee" (Kaasinen / Kaasinen, trad.) – 2:34 #"Laiska" ( Kari Reiman / Sirpa Reiman) – 4:06 #"Liigua" (Susan Aho / Aho, trad.) – 5:08 #"Milja" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman) – 4:27 #"Äijö" (Antto Varilo / Kähkönen) – 4:22 #"Kivutar" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman, K. Reiman, trad.) – 3:28 #"Linnunmieli" (K. Reiman, trad. / S. Reiman, trad.) – 3:57 #"Lieto" (K. Reiman) – 3:06 #"Sanat" (Janne Lappalainen / Kähkönen) – 4:37 #"Meri" (K. Reiman, S. Reiman, trad.) – 5:59 Personnel Värttinä *Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Kaasinen
Mari may refer to: Places *Mari, Paraíba, Brazil, a city * Mari, Cyprus, a village *Mari, Greece, a village, site of ancient town of Marius * Mari, Iran (other), places in Iran * Mari, Punjab, a village and a union council in Pakistan *Mari, Syria, ancient Near Eastern city-state *Mari El, a republic in Russia **Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1990), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and a predecessor to the Mari El mentioned above. **Mari Autonomous Oblast (1920–1936), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and a predecessor to the Mari ASSR. * Mari (crater), an impact crater on Mars Religion *Mari (goddess), Basque goddess *Māri or Mariamman, Indian goddess *Mari Native Religion, surviving pagan religion People and fictional characters *Mari (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Mari (surname), a list of people *Abba Mari (c. 1250–c. 1306), Prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsi Kähkönen
Kirsi is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on 24 July. It began to be used in the 1940s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. As of 2013 there are 23,000 women with this name in Finland. Origin and variants The name Kirsi originated as a short form of Kristiina, Finnish version of Christina or Kirsikka which means ''cherry'' in Finnish. It also means ''frost'' in Finnish. Notable people Notable people with this name include: * Kirsi Ahonen (born 1976), Finnish javelin thrower * Kirsi Boström (born 1968), Finnish orienteer * Kirsi Hänninen (born 1976), Finnish ice hockey player * Kirsi Heikkinen (born 1978), Finnish football referee * Kirsi Helen (born 1982), Finnish cross-country skier * Kirsi Kunnas (1924 - 2021), Finnish poet *Kirsi Lampinen (born 1972), Finnish tennis player * Kirsi Mykkänen (born 1978), Finnish sprinter * Kirsi Ojansuu (born 1963), Finnish politician * Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician * Kirsi Perälä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Lappalainen
Janne is a common given name in the Nordic countries. In Denmark, Norway and Estonia it is considered a feminine name, while in Sweden and Finland it is considered masculine. In Sweden and Finland it is often used as a nickname for people with related (male) names such as Jan, Jean or Johan. The name's origins lie in the ancient Hebrew names Yohanah/Yohanan (feminine/masculine), meaning "Yahweh (God) is gracious". The name spread to Greece along with Christianity, and became Ioanna/Ioannes. In the original, Greek version of the Bible both John the Baptist and John the apostle are referred to as "Ioannes", and the feminine version of the name appears in "Ioanna, the wife of Chuza". The names then, through Latin Vulgate, became Joanna/Johanna/Johanne (feminine), and Johannes (masculine). As the names spread through Europe along with Christianity, a number of simplified derivatives appeared, resulting in the large family of names to which Janne belongs: Johanna, John, Jan, Joan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and a long neck with a fretted fingerboard. It has steel strings and is played with a plectrum producing a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but pitched lower. There are two main types of bouzouki: the ''trichordo'' (''three-course'') has three pairs of strings (known as courses) and the ''tetrachordo'' (''four-course'') has four pairs of strings. The instrument was brought to Greece in the early 1900s by Greek refugees from Anatolia, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches. It is now an important element of modern Laïko pop Greek music. Etymology The name ''bouzouki'' comes from the Turkish word , meaning "broken" or "modified", and comes from a particular re-entrant tuning ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torupill
The torupill () is a traditional bagpipe from Estonia. Place in Estonian folk music It is not clear when the bagpipe became established in Estonia. The instrument was known throughout Estonia. The bagpipe tradition was longest preserved in West and North Estonia where folk music retained archaic characteristics for a longer time. Later when the fiddle was taking over folk music a lot of bagpipe tunes were transcribed for it. Very often the bagpipe was used for playing dance music; other instruments served this purpose only in the absence of the bagpipe. Some old ceremonial dances, such as the Round Dance (''Voortants'') and the Tail Dance (''Sabatants'') were performed together with a bagpiper who walked at the head of the column. Ceremonial music took an important place in the bagpipers' repertoires in the 17th century, as seen from the literary sources of that time. For instance, the presence of a bagpiper was considered essential during weddings, where he had to take part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenor Saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while the alto is pitched in the key of E), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F key have a range from A2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists". The tenor saxophone uses a larger mouthpiece, reed and ligature than the alto and soprano saxophones. Visually, it is easily distinguished by the curve in its neck, or its crook, near the mouthpiece. The alto saxophone lacks this and its neck goes straight to the mouthpiece. The tenor saxophone is most recognized for it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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