a r t i s t : Suden Aika
t i t l e : Unta
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Zen Master Records
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 63,2 MB
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In the music of Suden Aika (The Time of the Wolf), new and old
traditions are combined: In our music, the age-old traditional
Finnish oral poetry reciting meets the music of today. Suden
Aika is a group of four female vocalists singing about womenÆs
life in all its phases.
Suden Aika canÆt be labeled as a traditional folk music group
although our tone language draws its strong roots from the
Nordic and Finno-Ugric folk music tradition. Our music is
composed by Liisa Matveinen, Tellu Turkka and Nora Vaura, the
arrangements are made together on the basis of improvisation.
Our texts are based either on ancient and recent lyrical folk
poetry or on new poetry we have written ourselves using the
old Finnish oral poetry verse metre. When you listen to the
old poems, you can see how, in spite of all the changes in
time, the basic things in the human life, the joys and
sorrows, are still the same as they were two hundred years
ago. The old Finnish poetical language (based on the Kalevala
epic) is rich, colourful and beautiful and each listener is
entitled to his own interpretation, there is no single
official version. This rich Finnish oral tradition is what we
want to maintain also on our part.
The main thing, of course, in our music is the singing but we
also use lots of different musical instruments, such as
different types of Finnish Kantele, Swedish Mora-harp, long
wooden flutes and Udu-drums, etc.
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01-Varjosta [05:21]
02-Vejen Vasara [03:33]
03-Laiturilla [05:25]
04-Korppi [03:36]
05-Tulisuoni [03:42]
06-Kekaeleitae [02:09]
07-Ero [04:19]
08-Armo [06:15]
09-Kotihin [05:18]
10-Unta [05:06]
11-Rauha [03:00]
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47:44 min