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The Ripper
07-01-2010, 03:08 PM
Post examples, information and anything else relating to Baltic Finnish folk music, old or more modern. :thumb001:

Seto leelo, polyphonic singing:

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Finnish, Karelian-themed modern folk group Värttinä:

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esaima
07-01-2010, 05:03 PM
An other South-Estonian (Seto) folksong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApW5N46VSjE&feature=related

A young girl is walking on fields. She sees an old man.The old man is asking "Will you marry me? I am quite rich, you will inherit it all...Marry me!"
The girl: "No, you are too old for me, you are not hot!I want to marry a young, handsome man!":)
And "Hoi-lii-lii" is a refrain.

esaima
07-01-2010, 09:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66XbgyS-GEY&feature=related
An other Seto folksong.It seems that people are singig it spontanously in a Finno-Ugric festival in Mordovia, Russia.The girl who is the soloist is Estonian, but seems that there are some Finns, Eastern Finnics and Hungarians, too.So all Finno-Ugrians are singing together:thumbs up

The song is "Pirgo went to Pechory"
And now rough translation on the basis of my poor English.

Pirgo went to Pechory(the "capital" of Seto).Pirgo wanted to drink some
Seto homebrew vodka called hansa.Pirgo was given some hansa.But Pirgo
got very drunk and Pirgo was vapulated and was arrested.
And that is the end of this sad story.Tsukai-nukai is refrain:D

esaima
07-23-2010, 10:01 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4om1rQKPijI
Ievan polkka!Don´t know is Finnish it an authentic folk song but I love it.:thumb001:

The Ripper
09-25-2010, 01:27 PM
Here are some Karelian songs:

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Eldritch
09-29-2010, 10:04 PM
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Darkly captivating, almost magical.

Talvi
01-08-2011, 05:52 PM
Really like this song.. too bad it isnt the greatest quality

Seto band called Zetod, nice slow song in traditional runic singing style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF29c9O5e6I

Värttina - Kyla Vuotti Uutta Kuuta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWk-Vy1Yx_o

Estonian band Raud-Ants. They have an awesome mostly folk song in Votic(!!) which is close to extinction. They have several mp3s on their website. The song in Votic is called "Kui miä kazvolin kanainõ", which is the last on the page. The song "Isakodu ja mehekodu" is also really nice.. it says Kolga-Jaani behind it, so Im guessing its the a song from that region of Estonia and is not in standard Estonian.
http://www.raud-ants.com/muusika.php

Theres a Finnish-Estonian band called Poropetra, they have a lovely Estonian folk song Saare piiga (Sung by a finn) but the best example I could find was a 30 second clip on Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/Poropetra/_/Saare+piiga

And sorry, I dont really understand how posting youtube videos works. :(

Äike
01-08-2011, 06:08 PM
Really like this song.. too bed it isnt the greatest quality

Seto band called Zetod, nice slow song in traditional runic singing style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF29c9O5e6I

Värttina - Kyla Vuotta Uutta Kuuta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWk-Vy1Yx_o

Estonian band Raud-Ants. They have an awesome mostly folk song in Votic(!!) which is close to extinction. They have several mp3s on their website. The song in Votic is called "Kui miä kazvolin kanainõ", which is the last on the page. The song "Isakodu ja mehekodu" is also really nice.. it says Kolga-Jaani behind it, so Im guessing its the a song from that region of Estonia and is not in standard Estonian.
http://www.raud-ants.com/muusika.php

Theres a Finnish-Estonian band called Poropetra, they have a lovely Estonian folk song Saare piiga (Sung by a finn) but the best example I could find was a 30 second clip on Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/Poropetra/_/Saare+piiga

And sorry, I dont really understand how posting youtube videos works. :(

Zetod is a good band. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otzIazaFQCI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-x1j1N3uE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibz9QO7iBUM

Eldritch
01-08-2011, 06:16 PM
...

And sorry, I dont really understand how posting youtube videos works. :(

Here's YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLGOa9HZCw

Now intead of placing the whole thing between YT tags, just copypaste the past after the "v=" (in this case "jTLGOa9HZCw") in between the ... tags.

.... and ta dah!

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Talvi
01-08-2011, 06:39 PM
Some Estonian bagpipe music

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The Ripper
01-09-2011, 12:43 PM
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Not sure if this classifies as folk, perhaps some kind of pseudo-folk? ;)

In any case, its epic. :D

The Ripper
05-03-2011, 12:30 PM
I found an interesting and less known "Baltic Finnish" act on youtube, quite interesting: Norwegian Forest Finn folk music.

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Halling after the "Limping boy" Ola Porkkala Lehmoinen, Grue Finnskog.
Forest finns from Savo in Finland populated the swedish area in the 1640´s.

Duo Heim ´at (translated, "Home again" in domestic norwegian finn forest dialect), revivid the old tradition of music played on drum and violin. The military drummers of the district often played with local violinplayers.

Here is another one from Sweden, this one also has an interesting and informative description:

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Skogsfinnar eller svedjefinnar kallas de finnar som genom migration flyttade in i Sverige från slutet av 1500-talet och som försörjde sig på svedjebruk, till skillnad från de finnar som blev verksamma i hyttbruk.
Finnarna kom till gruvor och hyttor i Bergslagen redan vid 1500-talets mitt. Det finns såväl sägner som trovärdiga uppgifter om att finnar stött på rika malmådror. Till de säkra uppgifterna hör Nya Kopparberget i Ljusneberg (Mårten Finne, 1628) och Hällefors silvergruva i Västmanland (1639). Till de egentliga finnmarkerna kom finnarna först under 1580- och 1600-talets början. Tidigare fanns bosättningen i älvdalarna, kring vattensystem och på lättodlade slätter, medan de stora skogarna stod orörda. Barrskogen var exploaterbar med savolaxarnas svedjeteknik. Många bosatte sig även i skogarna på den norska sidan om gränsen, och området på båda sidor gränsen kallas Finnskogen. År 1686 fanns något över 1200 finnar i Norge.


Skogsfinnarna lärde sig svenska och blev tvåspråkiga, men bibehöll sin kulturella särart och det finska pråket. Blandäktenskap blev tidigt vanliga. Åren 1817 och 182122 företog den Savolax-födda finlandssvenske studenten Carl Axel Gottlund resor till de svenska och norska finnbygderna. Under dessa resor beskrev han i en mycket utförlig dagbok ortnamn, gårdar och deras invånares olika släktnamn. Vid tiden var 1718 procent av Värmlands befolkning eller cirka 25 000 personer finnättlingar.
Sedan början av 1900-talet är skogsfinnarna assimilerade bland övrig befolkning. Det finska språket talas inte längre och endast ortnamn påminner om det finska arvet. Det var i områden med större bosättningar med finska enklaver som finnarna ganska länge kunde undgå assimilering och upplösning. Främst gällde det i den största av de värmländska finnbygderna utmed norska gränsen i Fryksdalen och Klarälvdalen, speciellt i socknar som Östmark, Nyskoga, Södra Finnskoga och Vitsand samt Grue Finnskoga i Norge, som hade en homogen finsk bosättning inom ett brett skogsområde av 1415 mils längd. Från Värmland finns cirka 7000 finska ortnamn nedtecknade, varav 4000 är i gängse bruk eller fortlever i folkminnet. Den siste finskkunnige i Värmlands finnskogar var Henrik Olsson (18951980). Finskan hade överlevt 350 år isolerat utan skriftspråk.

Skandinavian metsäsuomalaiset (ruots. skogsfinnar, svedjefinnar, suom. kaskisuomalaiset) olivat suomalaisia, joita siirtyi 1580-luvun lopulta alkaen Savosta ja Pohjois-Hämeestä Keski-Skandinavian havumetsävyöhykkeelle uudisviljelijöiksi. Metsäsuomalaiset levittäytyivät laajalle alueelle Etelä-Ruotsin Tivedenistä Ruotsin Lappiin pohjoisessa, ja idässä Pohjanlahden länsirannikolta Gästriklandista Norjan Telemarkiin asti.[1]
Nykyään alueella on yhä jäljellä metsäsuomalaisrakennuksia ja paikannimiä, jotka muistuttavat suomen kielestä. Alueen kyliä kutsutaan vieläkin suomalaiskyliksi ja alueita kutsutaan suomalaismetsiksi.

Nykyään Värmlannin savolaismurre on kuollut. Viimeiset suomea hyvin taitaneet metsäsuomalaiset olivat Johannes Johansson-Oinoinen eli Niittahon Jussi sekä Karl Persson. He kuolivat 1965 ja 1969. Nykyisin metsäsuomalaisista on muistona enää suomalaisperäistä paikannimistöä. Alueella on kuitenkin herännyt innostus suomalaiskulttuuriin ja mm. Helleforsissa on poltettu tervamiilu vanhaan metsäsuomalaiseen tapaan. Myös sukututkimusta on tehty mm. Suhoisten suvusta. Norjan metsäsuomalaisilla on myös vähemmistökansan asema.
Suomen kuuluisin metsäsuomalaisten jälkeläinen on RKP:n kansanedustaja Elisabeth Nauclér Maarianhaminasta, joka valittiin eduskuntaan vuonna 2007.

Forest Finns (Norwegian: Skogfinner, Swedish: Skogsfinnar, Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset) are people of Finnish descent in the forest areas of Eastern Norway and Central Sweden. The Forest Finns emigrated from Savonia in Eastern Finland during the late 16th and early to mid 17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture.

Today the Forest Finns are fully assimilated into the Norwegian and Swedish societies and their language extinct, but their culture lives on in both countries and a number of place names commemorates the Finnish origin. They are defined as a national minority in Norway, and it is estimated that a couple of hundred thousand Norwegians and Swedes are descendants of the original Forest Finns.

Talvi
05-07-2011, 01:18 PM
Estonian folk band Vägilased

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Finnish band Gjallarhorn who usually have more Scandinavian influenced music but apparently this song is
The text is a fire-charm from the Finnish runo singing tradition in the Kalevala metre.
and its also one of their best. On the whole I dont really get a "Finnic" feel from them.

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And a traditional style song with kannel/kantele about Soviet Occupation in 41. By Mahtra Sõda
Im not sure how this link is going to work for other but I can download an mp3 as well as listen to it online. :)

http://varulven.metsatoll.ee/nyyde_elage_h2sti_mu_s6brad.mp3

And another one with some kind of a violin and traditional singing. Also by Mahtra Sõda. The band sounds a little raw though.

http://varulven.metsatoll.ee/sakste_sajatus.mp3

The Ripper
05-07-2011, 01:37 PM
Hedningarna is another Fenno-Scandinavian band similar to Gjallarhorn that also has some Finnish songs:

Metsän tyttö

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Täss' on nainen

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Heila

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Talvi
05-08-2011, 01:25 PM
Im unsure how to think about folk with accordion. It was only popularized in Estonian in the beginning of the 20th century, and the instrument is commonplace in the kind of music older people like to listen to but not really in "traditional folk"Somehow Ive felt like accordion is more of a Russian thing even though it became popular there around the 19th century.

I found this amazing song by a Finnish band Puhti who are inspired by Karelian culture.
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A South-Estonian band Zetod basically use the accordion in all of their songs.

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The Ripper
05-08-2011, 07:50 PM
Accordion has long been a popular instrument in Finnish folk music.

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Eldritch
05-09-2011, 09:25 AM
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Not sure if this classifies as folk, perhaps some kind of pseudo-folk? ;)

In any case, its epic. :D

It is folk music. And so is everything else released by bands such as Ensiferum and Moonsorrow, for example. ;)

It's modern, contemporary folk music.

Talvi
08-28-2011, 03:21 PM
Super super awesome!!!

Estonian.

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The Ripper
10-04-2011, 12:27 PM
A short Finnish documentary, "Maailmanmusiikkia Karjalasta" (World Music From Karelia). In Finnish only.

Part 1
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Part 2
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The Ripper
12-04-2011, 11:46 AM
I came across an Estonian-Livonian folk music group called Tulli Lum ("Hot Snow"). Apparently their vocalist, Julgi Stalte, is one of the remaining 10 people who speak Livonian as their native language! The band has mixed Livonian folk music with a jazzy sound, giving it a rather unique feel.

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Tulli Lum on myspace. (http://www.myspace.com/tullilum)

Its good to see that Livonian lives on through this band. :)

Talvi
12-14-2011, 12:24 PM
I guess its in South Estonian.

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The Ripper
12-18-2011, 03:45 PM
I wish there were more folk bands like Pohjannaula with their brand of "Finnish Polka-Folk-Rock-Humppa-Ska" music. :thumb001:

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The Ripper
12-19-2011, 01:49 PM
Some Tornedalian Finnish folk music by Jord.

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The Ripper
12-28-2011, 01:05 PM
I found a song in Votic by Estonian folk band Raud-Ants:

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Talvi
12-28-2011, 02:17 PM
I found a song in Votic by Estonian folk band Raud-Ants:

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I posted this bands website before in this thread but it doesnt seem to be working any more :(

The Ripper
12-28-2011, 02:22 PM
I wanted to post this song in particular because it is sung in the near-extinct Votic language.

Has the band split up, perhaps?

The Ripper
12-28-2011, 02:39 PM
Some more Votic stuff:

Votic boy with kantele:

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Bagpipes (Votic and Estonian)

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Here is a song in Votic by a folk group called Bestiarium/Maaväči:

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And another:

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The Ripper
01-17-2012, 12:55 PM
Finnish folk music group Freija's album Sydänjuurilla has been chosen as the folk album of the year.

Some of their songs:

"Kotiseutu pohjolassa"

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Cover of an old Finnish classic, "Emma"

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"Tiu vou vou"

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Northern_Sun
01-30-2012, 07:45 AM
Osan Yöstä - Revontulet (Northern Lights, Северное сияние)

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Lyrics in Khanty, Komi, Finnish, Karelian, Udmurt and Izhorian languages



The song 'Northern Lights' is the result of a collaboration of 30 musicians and translators from 4 countries. It is based on the eponymous poem written in 12 Finno-Ugric languages. The song is about people of different nations gathering together to meet themselves and to watch the northern lights. The poem features Aapo Ilves, an Estonian singer, songwriter, actor, dramatist, novelist and journalist.

The song was recorded in Petrozavodsk in September 2011 during Carelian Faces festival. The song includes couplets in Khanty, Komi, Finnish, Karelian, Udmurt and Izhorian languages. The chorus lists all Finno-Ugric peoples' endonyms with a final verse 'Here we go to light it on' sang in Finnish. The song was recorded with assistance of 'Nuori Karjala' society and 'Suomi-Venaja-Seura'.

Osan Yöstä (Part Of The Night) is a super-group of Finno-Ugric folk, rock and pop performers. The band started in 2011 in Petrozavodsk. The line-up includes 6 singers representing different Finno-Ugric nations:


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Uvan Zaytsev. Singer of the Khanty shamanic rock band H-Ural located in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In 2008 H-Ural headlined the V International Finno-Ugric Congress in Khanty-Mansiysk. After 2010 European tour H-Ural is the world's most known rock band singing in Ob-Ugrian languages. Uvan is the organizer of the folk and rock festival 'Rock Ethno Stan' in Yekaterinburg.


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Ola San. Komi ethno-pop singer


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Arto Rinne. Finnish musician, songwriter and festival organizer born in Karelia. Arto Rinne performed for leading Karelian rock bands Myllärit and Santtu Karhu ja Talvisovat. Now he is ruling his family folk-oriented band Sattuma. Arto is the head of the Carelian Faces festival held in Petrozavodsk, Russia since 2003.

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Olga Terekhova. Karelian singer, lead voice of the band Konec Leta.


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Svetlana Ruchkina. Udmurt singer, member of the pop trio Malpan and of the rock band Silent Woo Goore. In 2010 Silent Woo Goore performed a number of shows in Finland as a part of Sugri Rock tour getting enthusiastic press revues. In 2011 Silent Woo Goore reached place #2 on Liet International - the biggest international song contest for contemporary songs in European minority languages.


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Antti Kirkkonen. Leader of the Ingrian ethno-rock band Konec Leta which performs songs in Izhorian language. Since 2008 Antti is organizing Karelian Spring festival in St. Petersburg.


Lyrics

Revontulet'

1. Ханты:
Нанг таклен саран опи
Ёлах, лыщкам овус мувна
Сора, сора ёхта опи
Мойлатыя мунг хощаев.


2. Коми:
Öтнам доддьын, меным гажтöм,
Весиг кöрöй öдва легö
Тэтöг, суомиса вокöй,
Öдйöджык нин татчö лок.


3. Suomalaiset:
Joella mä kalastelen
Muttei kala tänään syö
Ilman sua, Karjalainen
Sisko. Pian tänne! Joo!


4. Karjala:
Ammui olin velleksittäh
Kupit yhteh čilkakkuammo
Tule čikko udmurtijas
Tansuh yhtes huolitammo


Chorus:
Мадьярок, ižora, вепся,
Карьяла, саами, мокша,
Ханты, коми, eestlased
Täältä tullaan! Anna palaa!
Бесерман, suomalaiset
Seto, līvzlit, меньдси, марий
Эрзя, ва́ддя, удмуртъёс
Täältä tullaan! Anna palaa!


5. Удмуртъёс:
Aika tahoin jo kutsua
Velloloja, seukkoloja
Reen päälle istuuskaa
Määmmä hantilaisille


6. Ižora:
Aika tahoin jo kutsua
Velloloja, seukkoloja
Reen päälle istuuskaa
Määmmä hantilaisille
Chorus

Northern_Sun
01-30-2012, 08:13 AM
Sattuma

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Sattuma is a Karelian folkband from Russia. They play new folk songs, inspired by the rich Karelian heritage

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Waidewut
02-01-2012, 01:13 PM
A Livonian folksong- Pūgõ, tūļ,/Blow ye Winds.
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This song historically adapted as a Latvian folksong as well, and is one of the most beautiful ones IMO.

Latvian version
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The Ripper
02-26-2012, 04:36 AM
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Finnish ballad about Antti Isotalo and Antti Rannanjärvi. :thumb001:

Ants
06-06-2012, 05:41 PM
I accidentally found this album from my brother's car today. I'm loving it.

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