The first single from new Värttinä studio album, Utu. The album will be released on Feb 1st, 2012.

English translation of the lyrics:

THE GIRLS FROM TUUTERI

Girls came to the village, girls from Tuuteri,
beautiful young maidens who could dance and sway.
They have silks slipped over their foreheads.
They’ve put on pretty clothes.

Hey now, give the floor to the girls, give them space!
Make way for us, fine Tuuteri girls!
If you don’t, we’ll be drawn out through the doors
and we’ll dance outside under the stars.

Yes, the girls from Tuuteri
are dancing under the stars now.
They sway in the middle of the yard.
These girls are itching to dance.
Their shoes want to skip around.

Please will you let us dance in the hall,
clatter around in our clattering shoes?
We’ve legs that are still young and fit.
We can still lift out bottoms from the benches.

They stayed for a few weeks,
stayed for a whole month.
They had naughty men back home in Tuuteri.
They were in no hurry to get home.

Yes, the girls from Tuuteri
are dancing under the stars now.
They sway in the middle of the yard.
These girls are itching to dance.
Their shoes want to skip around.

Tuuterin tyttäret

Sample from the new Värttinä album 'Utu'. Release date: Feb 1st 2012!

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Helleleo (preview)

Vaeltaja (preview)

Utuneito (preview)

Manattu (preview)

Haltija (preview)

Tantsu (preview)

Haltijan hallussa (preview)

"An unbeatable "world-beat" combination: traditional music, given a contemporary twist and a post-modern point of view." - Rolling Stone

Värttinä is Finland's most successful contemporary folk music group. Värttinä's roots are in the Karelia region of Finland, specifically women's vocal traditions and ancient poems known as runos.

Fronted by three female singers and supported by virtuosic acoustic musicians, Värttinä composes most of their music and lyrics, based on traditional Karelian and other Finno-Ugric styles but with modern and thoroughly distinctive and original arrangements.

Since 1990, Värttinä has toured internationally and built a solid reputation as one the most inventive and uncompromising ensembles in the contemporary world music arena.

NEW STUDIO ALBUM - UTU - OUT ON FEB 1ST 2012!

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