live during a soundhealing session @Merkaba center 25. Feb 2022.
kantele / voice - Aliisa Aurora
Background singers - Jatsan Dorje & Marleena Arianna

Sadelaulu /Kothbiro -cover (live @soundhealing, Merkaba center)

Northern Scenery (KANTELE Live)

A variation of the most famous ancient Finnish melody, the Kalevala melody.

Uni (Ensimmäinen versio)

One of the main themes of the second c-cassette concept album WÄINÄMÖISEN HARHARETKET. It's about getting lost and then trying to find yourself out of tragic events.

WÄINÄMÖISEN HARHARETKET

WÄINÄMÖISEN HARHARETKET (WÄINÖ'S ODYSSEY)

This is probably the main song and the first one I wrote for the NORTHODOX and WÄINÄMÖISEN HARHARETKET concept album serie. 16 tracks total, divided into 8 songs for each album. I don't think that I'll ever write anything this meaningful on a personal level, but perhaps individual songs here and then. I dedicate this to Timo Rautiainen.

WÄINÖN PERINTÖ (WÄINÖ'S THEME)

The first song I wrote for WÄINÄMÖISEN HARHARETKET concept. I kept it rather folkish and plain, like it was in its original form.

WÄINÖN TEEMA

Composed in 2011 for Eva Alkula and Jenni Vartiainen, who first performed it in Willa Mac, Tampere, on 27.11.2011. The piece is performed by the same musicians on this recording, and also on the cd released in 2015 by IMU-nkkoon musiikki.

Composer Paola Livorsi about Ua hoi!: "In this work the two instruments are uned differently, one in the common diatonic scale, the other in microintervals carefully established by the composer. The piece begins "narrando" (telling a story): the second instrument is an odd brother of the first, repeating all what it says, but in a different scale. The work is built upon a portion of mostly diatonic scales. Mirrors and comparisons succeed themselves, bringing the two systems face to face.  The game continues within the low register, till the scales become bichords of minor thirds (where the particularity of the tuning is yet more evident): suddenly the players' voices appear, pronouncing the syllables "ua ua" as a third sound added to the bichords; they evolve into "ba ba" and finally into "ua hoi!". The shouts are accompanied by clusters and percussive sounds on the soundboard of the instruments. Harmonic sounds lead to a calmer part, with resonant chords, marked "Cielo. Interludio". It is followed by Terra, where both instruments play fast glissandi up and down. Then restarts the confrontation in thirds, to give place to the invention-like patterns of the first part. The piece ends on whole tones and tritones, which put in evidence the difference of the tuning systems. The piece is very playful and the unconventional use of the voice is well integrated in its original sound world."

Ua hoi!

Pidot

Mettänpeitto

Kuutar

Tulirevon juoksu

Uhripuu

Tapio, god of the forests,
I knock on your peoples doors,
Bang on the gates of your kingdom,
To gather the folk, and play on the oldest of instruments,
The drums of nature echo through the lands.

Kannus Tapion

Music by Walter Beltrami
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All sounds made using KANTELE Double Espresso Bundle
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The Loneliness Of The Fisherman

Soundscapes made with Kantele Double Espresso Electronic.

Music by Reasonance
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All sounds made using KANTELE Double Espresso Bundle
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King Pong

Deep chords played with the bonus synth included in the Kantele Double Espresso Bundle. 

No additional sounds or external FXs were used. 
Directly out of the box!

Music by Dave Kino
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Big Synth Chords

Saunalaulu. 

Music - Lotta Maija
Lyrics, vocals, guitar, kantele, percussions - Lotta Maija
Recording, shakers, guiro - Eetu Laitinen
Recording, electric base, mix & master - Heikki J. Järvi / Lumi.Ääni

Kiitos Taike - Taiteen edistämiskeskus
https://www.taike.fi/fi/etusivu
Kappaleen tuotanto sai tukea Taikelta ja toteutettiin
avustuksen voimin.

Songs words translated in to english by Heikki J. Järvi:

I let the Sauna do some cleaning
The Holy Löyly do some warming
To cleanse this body of mine
To renew consciousness mine

Wash away that I do not need
Let go of what servers me not
I give my Self to the Creator
I surrender to the Flow of Life

-

I let go with a sigh
Descending into the Now
My woes I drop unto Earth’s lap
For something new to take their place

Vibrates with the Power of Creation
The mighty River of Life

-

One created awakens to Create
To bless the life as Holy
To experience Oneness
To let one’s bosom to Love

To let one’s song echo out
To let one’s woes fall away

-

To be embraced by the Earthly Mother
To be carried away by the Great Spirit
With the direction of the Guides
With the blessings of the Ancient Mothers

-

Thank you, the gentle Löyly of Sauna
Breathing in your protection
Melting away and becoming warm
Softening one’s Heart

More about Lotta Maija:
https://linktr.ee/lottamaijamusic

#saunalaulu #sauna #suomi #tampere #kalevalainen

Saunalaulu

memory of generations

Atmospheric Nordic heavy folk rock. Lyrics are northern and slightly off from the typical main stream radio tunes. Partly based on KALEVALA epic.

Lotta Maija is a singer-songwriter, flautist and an inspirator. Her passion is guide others through music. To connect people with ones innermost being, everflowing creativity and the sound of ones soul. She composes and writes the lyrics in her own music and on this album she is also playing most of the instruments by herself.
https://www.youtube.com/c/LottaMaijaMusic
https://www.lottamaijamusic.com/ 
https://www.instagram.com/lottamaijamusic/?hl=fi
https://www.facebook.com/Lottamaijamusic/

Lotta Maija holds singing circles, is facinated by indigenous and traditional ways of using sound.

A music composer based in Nagoya, Japan. https://linkco.re/8nfUtsHz?lang=en

Autor. Multi-instrumentalist: gustara, keyboard, flute, guitar, jiembe
I created new instrument Gustara

I've done music for: Sirius sport resort, Keskiympyrä, Sscinema, Vostok games and some other projects.

Currently working in Yousician

contact me: ville_huovila@hotmail.com

A child of the bear.

I make music based on traditional Finnish music from the iron age using traditional instruments from that time.

All the imperfections make it perfect and genuine.

New tracks tagged #kantele