Trepaanit's lyrics & chords

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...read more