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Written in fRoots issue 316, 2009


ILONA KORHONEN ENSEMBLE
Tarkka Pää, Tania Mieli
Ääniä AANIA-9 (2009)

16-member Finnish female vocal ensemble with trad-influenced compositions based on the thousands of runo-song verses collected in the 20th century from Ingrian Larin Paraske. Strongly sung, impressive arrangements and solos, in some ways a parallel to the Bulgarian female folk choirs, but while the lyrics are traditional the melodies and arrangements are all Korhonen’s. www.aania.fi


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