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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1411406770' post='2559229']
Was it a cover version of this?
[media]http://youtu.be/WxY47jh9owA[/media]
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Yep, the song was written for Lori, but, I have to say, I prefer the cover! I really like Roberta's voice and phrasing anyway but I also I like the arrangement more. I think this is an amazing song, words and music.

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Hedningarna (translates as "Heathens"): I just discovered this Swedish/Finnish band. This track from the early 1990's blends Saami "joiks" (a kind of sung chant) with Finnish singing which (I think, judging from the rhythms and limited scale used) is roughly in the traditional style which has been used for centuries to pass on their folk tales. Finland is much more in touch with its oral tradition than we are, as their great national myths were only collected and written down for the first time in the nineteenth century, principally in the "Kalevala", an epic tale of shamans and spirits. Anyone from Finland care to add to or correct any of this, or tell us what the girls are singing here?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARpIQvGVbA[/media]

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Thanks for posting!
It's a band I like, but that I've heard little of the last decade. But you kicked me into action again:
Must . Search . CD . Shelves.


As to the lyrics, this is what LyricWikia says:


Oh thou Ukko and thou Akka
Weavers all of winds and weather

Pray I do to a black man
Raise a wind and make it whirling

Raise a wind and make it whirling
Make a gale that's great and growing

Tear up tar stumps off the roadside
Pull the pine trees off the lake shore

Break the tops of giant oak trees
Crash their robust roots to splinter

Rise thou wind to blow and bellow
Gust and gale to whirl all over

Rise thou wind to blow and bellow
Rage and rave, thou angry weather,

Blow thou wind through more than six years
Rage through summers more than seven

Rapids rise to rush in torrents
Aged waters to run swiftly

And thou self rush like the rapids
And prevail without a hindrance

Pray I do to a black man
Raise a wind and make it whirling

Raise a wind and make it whirling
Make a gale that's great and growing

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[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412166437' post='2566332']
As to the lyrics, this is what LyricWikia says:
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Thanks for that, BassTractor. Maybe you'd be a good person to ask about other Nordic folk/trad/fusion bands or musicians - it's something I'm quite into at the moment. I've already got stuff by:

Alban Faust
Väsen
Värttina
Virelai (Danish medieval / traditional band)
Hoven Droven
Hedningarna
Emilia Amper (superb nykelharpa player)
and of course the fabulous Mari Boine

any others you'd recommend?

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[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1412174528' post='2566456']
any others you'd recommend?
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My memory is failing me right now, so I've asked a bunch of friends somewhere else. They are bound to come back with some good ones.

In the mean time: how traditional would you like it to be?

Are you aware of Hinn Íslenzski Thursaflokkur aka. Thursaflokkurin? Their album "Thursabit" seems great.

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[quote name='crag42' timestamp='1412236708' post='2566930']
yes mate. ..a band I was in supported focus a couple of years back[/quote]

Cool, met him a few years ago & made the mistake of trying out my basic Dutch on him, trying to be polite but ended up looking a bit daft (or more so than usual).

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[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1412237109' post='2566932']


Cool, met him a few years ago & made the mistake of trying out my basic Dutch on him, trying to be polite but ended up looking a bit daft (or more so than usual).
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ha ha. ..I struggle with English so I left the Dutch to him

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[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412184693' post='2566596']
My memory is failing me right now, so I've asked a bunch of friends somewhere else. They are bound to come back with some good ones.

In the mean time: how traditional would you like it to be?

Are you aware of Hinn Íslenzski Thursaflokkur aka. Thursaflokkurin? Their album "Thursabit" seems great.
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Thanks BT, I'll give them a go.

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You're welcome.
I made a spelling error though. It's either Hinn Íslenski Thursaflokkur or Hinn Íslenzki Thursaflokkur, depending on where you look, and not with both the "s" and the "z".
BTW, on Iceland, the last word in the name is spelled with the Icelandic character "Þ", but normally searches work well when spelling it with "th".

Here are some other names provided to me. Don't know any of them myself.

Ale Möller
Sofia Jannok
Karin Kjellman & Ulf Grufberg
Molly på rymmen

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