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Värttinä, Iki
Audio CD
Disk ID: 847013
Disk length: 46m 25s (12 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2003
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Syyllinen Syli (Part1) | 1:29 |
| 2. Tuulen Tunto | 4:54 |
| 3. Sepän Poika | 3:20 |
| 4. Tauti | 4:05 |
| 5. Morsian | 4:37 |
| 6. Nahkaruoska | 3:08 |
| 7. Maahinen Neito | 4:23 |
| 8. Potran Korean | 2:33 |
| 9. Vihi | 3:33 |
| 10. Hopeat | 5:35 |
| 11. Tumma | 4:29 |
| 12. Syyllinen Syli (Part2) | 4:11 |
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Review
Värttinä's previous album, Ilmatar, was runic, dark, and chillingly evocative, a masterpiece of latter-day trad-pop. Ever since, fans of this female-led Karelian ensemble have been eagerly anticipating their next effort while half-expecting a let-down. Well, the wait is over, and the follow-up, created in the wake of still more personnel changes, is surprisingly un-fussy, almost bar-band folkloric. The legendary women vocalists are now a trio instead of a quartet. They are heard solo and combined, backed by acoustic accordion, fiddles, flutes, guitars, drums, and kantele (Finland's zither-like national instrument,) the whole anchored by a simple, prominent bass. Their trademark speed-singing is sparingly deployed and the open-faced, limpid harmonies seldom become unsettling or shrill. The singers come across like a chance gathering of sharp-tongued, kindly village gossips on a sunny bench. They are nowhere near so occult or fate-driven as we've been led to believe--not in broad daylight, anyway. -- Christina Roden
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Tracks: 13 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 14m (+27m 35s)
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