Uusikuu: Piknik

Uusikuu: Piknik

July 15, 2025

Heads or Tails Listening Post 389. Uusikuu’s sixth album has a pastoral title, but the group’s picnic basket has a false bottom, out of which emerges a cornucopia of song and delight. Led by Finnish singer-composers Laura Ryhänen and Mikko Kuisma, the ensemble also...
Tango-Orkesteri Unto: Dark Wings of the Night

Tango-Orkesteri Unto: Dark Wings of the Night

February 13, 2017

Shadow and Stars Listening Post 86: The range of human emotion stays largely the same, even in physical landscapes that are poles apart. So perhaps the mystery of Finnish tango lies not in how it flourishes on subarctic ground but, rather, in the eternal shadows of...