#finnishmusic — Public Fediverse posts

Jukka Eskola and Pauli Lyytinen: Wandering new paths in #jazz and beyond

#joik #sápmi #finland #finnishmusic
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/eskola-and-lyytinen-wandering-new-paths-in-jazz-and-beyond

Another pick for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #PunkRock. Here's a Finnish #ProtoPunk classic by the group Virtanen, with lead singer Moog Konttinen and guitarist Veltto Virtanen.

Virtanen: Elektroninen Xtaasi ("Iltatähti", 30.4.1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFQ_sDVJHA

Veltto Virtanen later went on to become a member of the Finnish Parliament, but his political career is another (and almost equally zany) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veltto_Virtanen

#Virtanen #VelttoVirtanen #MoogKonttinen #Finnishmusic #suomirock

This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #PunkRock. Here's one of the Finnish punk pioneers, Pelle Miljoona, and one of his best-known early songs, the title of which roughly translates to "Violence and substance abuse". At the time, he was obviously a man with a message!

Pelle Miljoona & N.U.S. - Väkivalta ja päihdeongelma (live 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udmex9dmAQE

#PelleMiljoona #suomirock #finnishmusic

"Easy listening" but finnish.
Good way to check your level of finnish (mine is just three words over the zero)

Veikko Lavi - Silakka-apajalla
https://youtu.be/329vcSNGKQQ?si=gExOO2sVJ0BfRPsE

#song #music #finnish #finnishlanguage #spelling #finland #finnishsong #finnishmusic #VeikkoLavi

Sibelius - Symphony No 3 in C major, Op 52 - Salonen
https://youtu.be/_iPYeALbp50?si=UNFWNfPuH_HjYqrk

I love this piece so much, from the bass and cello quirky but energetic folk dance opening to the stirring chorale theme towards the end of the third and final movement.

It's often described as a piece in which Sibelius turned to classicism. I would prefer to describe it as a constrained romanticism, the very lack of grandiloquent bombast adding so much to the emotional power which comes to fruition as the symphony concludes.

For all sorts of reasons, some of them purely personal, I am attached to this particular performance.

I listen to this symphony frequently. Each time I do so I feel a new and better life surge up within me.

I can't guarantee it will have the same effect on you, but do give it a go. It's only about thirty minutes long, so even if it does little or nothing for you, you won't feel a huge chunk has been taken out of your time.

If, on the other hand, it does work for you, then time and time again over the rest of your life you will want to renew that half hour experience .

#ClassicalMusic #JeanSibelius #SymphonyNo3 #SymphonicMusic #FinnishMusic

Fascinating, witty and moving interview with violinist Pekka Kuusisto

#songlines #violin #fiddle #finnishmusic #classical #folk #jazz #finland
https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/vaughan-to-be-wild

Pekko Käppi's Oli kerran ryytimaassa: Poignant acoustic ballads to blazing, feedback-soaked blues-rock

#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
https://www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-kerran-ryytimaassa

Quirky ‘90s Finnish band #UltraBra is staging a comeback with their first new songs since 2001

Most of their lyrics are by former #Greens leader #AnniSinnemäki, now deputy mayor of #Helsinki

#finnishmusic #finland
https://finland.fi/arts-culture/quirky-90s-band-ultra-bra-stages-a-stylish-comeback-at-30/

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Sibelius -- Nightride and Sunrise -- Paavo Järvi -- hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
https://youtu.be/WU3MPK8ULQc?si=rxGikb4MaSaGFw7n

KMFA just played this piece, but It thought I would post it as I think it is Sibelius at his best in a digestible chunk.

Sibelius is like Kpop in attracting both passionate devotion on the one hand and antipathy and contempt on the other. I'm a devotee of both!

Jonathan Blumhofer has written....

#Sibelius #NightrideAndSunrise #ÖinenRatsastusJaAuringonnousu #ClassicalMusic #TonePoem #LateRomantic #FinnishMusic #Finland

@corruptian It's another service, but the National Library does have an extensive collection of Finnish music recordings (https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/collections/music-recording-collection), which of course includes death metal as well:

https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=AllFields&filter%5B0%5D=%7Eformat_ext_str_mv%3A%220%2FSound%2F%22&filter%5B1%5D=genre_facet%3A%22Death+metal%22&hiddenFilters%5B0%5D=building%3A%220%2FNLF%2F%22&hiddenFilters%5B1%5D=-building%3A%221%2FNLF%2Farto%2F%22&limit=20&sort=relevance&lng=en-gb

(sorry for the long link!)

#deathmetal #Finnishmusic #NatLibFi #legaldeposit

I borrowed Pekka Laine's and Tommi E. Virtanen's book "Suomalaiset sähkökitaristit" ("Finnish Electric Guitarists") from my local public library a couple of weeks ago. The book came out in 2022, but for some reason I had not picked it up before.

The book has more than 560 pages, and consists of nearly 60 interviews with a very wide selection of prominent rock, pop, roots and jazz players. There are also remembrances of a few key people (Albert Järvinen, Petri Walli, Alexi Laiho) who were no longer available for interview. The oldest interviewee was the old-school session player Heikki Laurila (1934-2021), the most recorded guitarist in Finnish music, with more than 7000 tracks in his résumé. The youngest is the heavy metal guitarist Samy Elbanna (born in 1995).

Some of the interviewees have learned to play on their own, but there are also many players, regardless of the genre, who have had formal musical training. The late 1960s British blues boom, Jimi Hendrix (who played a legendary concert in Helsinki in 1967) and especially Albert Järvinen's role in the Hurriganes (the seminal 1970s Finnish rock & roll band) come up as key influences in many of the interviews with the people who started out in the 1960s and 1970s.

While many of the people obviously have their own individual voices, and there are wildly different personal histories, the interviews have been skillfully edited into a fairly compact format, and overall the book is an easy and entertaining read. I've never played guitar beyond of trying to pluck a few random notes, but reading the book, I got a lot of new insights into guitar playing, the role of practising, technical gear, touring, session work and the life of a musician in general.

The book at the publisher web site:

https://www.tammi.fi/kirjat/suomalaiset-sahkokitaristit/

#music #musamastodon #guitarists #rockmusic #finnishmusic #books #kirjamastodon #musicians #musicalhistory

Toinen albumi AENA RANKKOO ulkona 28.3.!

Tallenna ennakkoon nyt:
show.co/CAY99hj

#junna #junnaWave #folkTronica #etnotekno #ethnoTechno #folkPop #finnishFolkMusic #kamu #electroFolk #finnishFolk #folkWave #finnishMusic #newMusic #uuttaMusaa

That trombone theme! And so much packed into such short a extent of time!

https://youtu.be/YoodmkspZIQ?si=38tEtSgiLRQNmiF_

#ClassicalMusic #Sibelius #7thSymphony #FinnishMusic #EsaPekkaSalonen #SwedishRadioSymphonyOrchestra
#Symphony

Junna x Susanna Leppänen - Hoo äs hoo

Junna ja Susanna Leppänen yhdistävät voimansa 28.2. 💥
Pre-save täällä! show.co/VUJgXBw

Kuvat: Essi Haipus

#junna #junnaWave #SusannaLeppänen #folkTronica #etnotekno #ethnoTechno #Accordion #folkPop #finnishFolkMusic #kamu #electroFolk #finnishFolk #folkWave #finnishMusic

@AllonsyMelissa

Good luck too with your ventures into Finnish language and culture.

I love a lot of the works of Sibelius.

This short piece, "Andante Festivo", is conducted here by Sibelius himself. Broadcast on the New Year's Eve of 1939, this scratchy recording moves me so much.

https://youtu.be/vgXI8tnibmI?si=jiKCq7QWC59uLwCi

#FinnishMusic #Finland #JeanSibelius #Sibelius #AndanteFestivo

David Murray, the Necks and Nordic delights at #WeJazz festival in #Helsinki

#livejazz #jazz #finnishmusic #NordicMusic #finland
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/article/david-murray-the-necks-and-nordic-delights-at-helsinki-s-we-jazz-festival

#Disque du jour, bonjour !

Un chef d'oeuvre absolu, si vous voulez mon avis, 4h de musique, 4 "genres" différents, 4 galettes, que du bon, de l'#electronic #experimental, un peu d'#ambient, le tout venu de #Finland (#FinnishMusic)

#PanSonic • Kesto (234.48:4)

Le premier titre, une parfait introduction à l'ensemble :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMR1HWODT4

#music #NowPlaying

Verneri Pohjola 🎺and Linda Fredriksson 🎷 on the Balloon 360 stage at #flowfestival #helsinki #finnishmusic

Finland’s national instrument, the kantele, fuses with Caribbean and Latin rhythms and a sprinkling of electronic fairy dust in Ruttusound's Tropikantele.

#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #kantele
https://www.songlines.co.uk/review/tropikantele

Sibelius -- The Swan of Tuonela

https://youtu.be/X3_H5YlgKFU?si=qXegynjQpuleVNIJ

“Tuonela, the land of death, the hell of Finnish mythology, is surrounded by a large river of black waters and a rapid current, in which the swan of Tuonela glides majestically singing.” -- Jean Sibelius.

A must listen if you want to hear magical writing for the cor anglais.

#ClassicalMusic #JeanSibelius #TheSwanOfTuonela
#LateRomanticism #FinnishMusic
#CorAnglais

Gothic folk-rock and poignant jouhikko ballads from Pekko Käppi

#finnishmusic #folkmusic #jouhikko #pekkokappi #gratefuldead
https://fmq.fi/articles/gothic-folk-rock-and-poignant-jouhikko-ballads

This is pretty awesome! #gangstasparadise #Kantele #finland #finnishmusic https://youtu.be/WIdwthe0sjI?feature=shared

#ambientmusic seems to be seeping in everywhere in #Finland, and that's not a bad thing

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#ambient #electronicmusic #flowfestival #brianeno #finnishmusic #yoga #meditation #newmusic #soundscapes #UrbanSoundscape #installationart

https://finland.fi/arts-culture/finnish-ambient-music-nourishes-the-soul-in-restless-times/