9 Richu

8 Enkö Minäkin Toivoisi

7 Kirkas Neiti Kihloissasi

6 Nuku Nuku Nurmilintu

5 He Shuiyuedong Yun

4 Yiti - Liangmian

3 Huanghe Lou

2 Lintuseni

10 Outro

1 Olin Ennen Otramaana

2 Jinwan

This song was made to continue old tradition of the Bunun people of Taiwan to pass stories down oraly, in songs. This is a story that a Bunun grandmother shard with me in a traditional Bunun melody. I arranged it, recorded it and share it with the village. The young generation is almost unable to use their maternal language, so this modernized version of their traditional melody is attempting to provide a bond between them and their language as well as their traditional music.

Tupa Tina (Isul's song)

This is my version of a Czech folk song from Moravia. Recording was made  as a refreshment after recording the songs 'I was supposed to record'. I love this melody very much, maybe that is the reason it gave me strenght at time I would be not able to record anything else anymore :)

Okolo Hradista

This song was composed for the poem ’Olin Ennen Otramaana’  featured in the book ’Vartalo Kanteletar’ by Elias Lönnrot.
Composer, Vocals and Guzheng: Barbora Xu
Mixing: Joakim Stolpke

Olin Ennen Otramaana

This is a new version of a story shared by an old aboriginal lady from Taiwanese mountains(Bunun tribe). It is a wisdom her mother told her and we made it into a song as a kick for their traditional music.

Tupa Tina 29.3.2017

This song was composed for the poem ’Enkö Minäki Toivoisi’  featured in the book ’Vartalo Kanteletar’ by Elias Lönnrot.

Barbora Xu: composed the music, playing guzheng, guqin and singing
Immu Heikkilä: playing kantele
Joakim Stolpke: Mixing

Enkö minäki toivoisi

This song was composed for the poem ’Olin Ennen Otramaana’ featured in the book ’Vartalo Kanteletar’ by Elias Lönnrot.
Composer, Vocals and Guzheng: Barbora Xu
Violoncello: Teemu Mastovaara

Olin Ennen Otramaana (with violoncello)

Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores the shared symbolism of
Finnish and Chinese poetry, setting ancient texts to newly composed songs and
arrangements.

For more info, see:
www.barboraxu.com 

Barbora Xu

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