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Värttinä - Värttinä

Finland / 1987 / Finnish Folk, Rune Singing I’ve been a fan of this band/collective for years, so it’s kind of strange for me to finally hear their debut after all this time. This was self-released on cassette back in 1987, before the fusion of different musical elements in their work, before their maturity. And that’s fine. Sometimes a folkhead wants to hear folk that’s simpler, straight,…

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Perkele, käy pyytäessä Kosta käskiessä Ja vaivaa väärintekijää Joka kehon kähmijää Vaimon viiltäjää

Devil, visit when asked Take revenge when commanded And torment every wrongdoer Every body grabber Every wife slasher

#I love a good revenge fantasy #sorry the translation is not the best but I just want y'all to know the lyrics #also recite this spell to torment every wrongdoer in your life #audio #vilma jää #finnish #finnish folk #electropop #bandcamp

Today's compilation:

Finnischer Tango: Tule Tanssimaan 1998 Tango / Finnish Folk

Wow, you really thought that I wasn't ever going to cover Finnish tango, didn't you? And that's only because you didn't even know that it ever existed in the first place, right? Well, guess what? Finland apparently *really* loves this traditional South American folk dance music. Tango reached the country in 1913 and it's been sewn into their musical fabric ever since, and not as some cute niche, but as one of the nation's most popular genres, overall. You probably wouldn't think tango to be part and parcel of the Finnish soul and experience, but it actually very much has been for multiple generations now.

And tango's unlikely popularity in Finland wasn't the product of some significant South American diaspora either. Some traveling musicians just started playing it there, and by the 40s, it had been developed into a dominant component of the country's very own music charts. Plus, since 1985, there's been a very popular annual tango festival in the town of Seinäjoki too, which is said to draw about 2% of the country's entire population. All pretty fascinating, no?

But this collection of tunes here from the Munich-based Trikont label also isn't your typical Finnish tango CD either—if ever there was such a thing—because, across the many genres and historic scenes that Trikont covers, their specialty is basically what amounts to musical archaeology: they dig *really* deep for those obscure fossils that no one else seems to have really uncovered or brought to light before. And I am someone who is as wet behind the ears as literally anyone can be when it comes to Finnish tango, but if you're someone who considers themselves a bit of a FINtango fiend, then this appears to be some essential listening for you.

Ultimately, for me though, I really don't enjoy listening to much traditional folk music of any kind, and that now includes Finnish tango as well. But if it sounds interesting to you, this thing has tracks on it that span all the way from 1915 up until 1996, so it'll allow you to get a taste of how this uniquely Finnish phenomenon has been developed and shaped over very many years, and with a slate of tracks that don't seem to have been on many people's radar at the time when they were originally recorded too.

No highlights.

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