Contemporary Folk music of Finland
In the year 2000 an underground-movement of new Finnish traditional music came out, musicians like Joose Keskitalo, Kuusumun Profeetta, Pa...
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In
the year 2000 an underground-movement of new Finnish traditional music came
out, musicians like Joose Keskitalo, Kuusumun Profeetta, Paavoharju and others
have brought something new into the Finnish music scene though wider fame has
not reached them. Despite their lyrics written in Finnish these groups have
also gotten international recognition, even cult-following, also very popular
musicians with a status of a classic J Karalainen and Pauli Hanhiniemi have in
their current production gone to the direction of the traditional music though
this music has in spite of being recognized by critics, been left unnoticed by
the large audience.
source of picture: www.matitjamaijat.fi
Another
new phenomenon of the year 2000 beside that of the very famous rap and the
underground traditional scene is suomireggae, with their Finnish lyrics, with
moral and spiritual content, these musicians like Kapteeni A-ni, Jukka Poika,
Soul-Captain Band, and Raappana also reached not just a cult following but also
a wider fame.
The
underground scenes of the different genres are very lively in Finland at the
moment and a lot of groups and musicians defy the genre-limits, for instance is
very famous Finnish underground rap artist ASA (which is formerly known as MC
Avain), who has used the traditional music as the accompanying band, of the bands
such as Profeetta ja UMU it is very hard to say, what genre they represent.