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Artist
Trepaanit
6+ albums
psychedelicfolk
about
These four young musicians have seen behind folk music, they have truly found its might and the power of playing. As in the lyrics of an innocent roundelay, they "make little birches sway like mighty spruces of the backwoods"; they turn a trifling strophe into a life-size expression. The ensemble consists of the Tuvinian string instrument igil, the heart-breaking lament of the Karelian bowed harp, the Irish bouzouki, the two-row accordion from southern Ostrobothnia and a completely new instrument called vantele, developed because the existing instruments could not interpret what the musicians had in mind. The timbre of the strings is hypnotic and the sound of the ensemble unique. From time to time, this sound scenery is completed by the primeval overtone singing or a growling throat tone. Yet what touches you the most in this music is its lengthy, archaic aesthetics: its hasteless lingering full of underlying, explosive might and its undisguised masculine sensitivity. The group's gigs are always dazzling experiences. Every tone is lived, raw, but lived together with the audience. Luckily, Trepaanit were able to reach this atmosphere in the recording studio as well. Text by Heikki Laitinen. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.