Tuuletar: Rajatila/Borderline

Tuuletar: Rajatila/Borderline

Voices on the Edge Listening Post 227. Tuuletar’s debut album introduced vocal folk hop, a performance style of a cappella harmony, beatboxing, gesture and movement that filtered the natural world through Finnish mythology. Listening to Rajatila (Borderline), the...
Solju: Ođđa áigodat

Solju: Ođđa áigodat

Renaissance on Thin Ice Listening Post 175. Nothing is permanently frozen in time. In Sápmi—the Sami homeland that straddles northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia’s Kola Peninsula—this can be both blessing and curse. Ođđa áigodat (New Times) is a vivid record of...
Tuuletar: Tules maas vedes taivaal

Tuuletar: Tules maas vedes taivaal

Forces of Nature Listening Post 115. Nature plays music for those who listen. In addition to the unique performance style that has earned them well deserved laurels, the women of the a cappella quartet Tuuletar listen carefully—to the earth, to the modern urban...