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Written in fRoots issue 202, 2000

Liisa Matveinen & Tellu Virkkala
Mateli
Kansanmusiikki-instituutti KICD 64 (1999)

Current and former Hedningarna singers in a much sparser context of their voices, kanteles, jouhikko and moraharpa with powerful, prevailingly sad Finnish lyrics collected from woman runo-singer Mateli Kuivalatar (1771-1846) set to tunes by Matveinen, who’s from Mateli’s home district, Ilomantsi in Karelia.


© 2000 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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