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SAMPLES

Here are some samples what you can listen more times when you want. Chose some of my favorites to show the colorfullness of their music, so are here a-cappella , instrumental, slow and speedy too. Also tried to find typical parts of the songs
The samples are in mp3 form (99kbps). Every sample is ca.30 sec long and ca.370K in size. Here is not a complete song to avoid cr.problems but you can find some mp3 on the NorthSide page (together with other nordic pieces).
Please notice that these short samples are only appetizers as they can not show you exactly the songs. So the best if -after listening the samples- check their gig-list and go to a concert.

There are some good quality photo at the bottom of this page. Scroll down.(Pictures deleted here, because you can find now many good quality foto on the net. I give links later)

	Itkin	A sad song on their recent album "Ilmatar"
	Käppee	I believed earlier that women singing a cappella is boring ,but I missed.This can be very interesting."Ilmatar"
	Milja	A wonderful slow song on "Ilmatar".
	Linnunmieli	This is also from "Ilmatar"
	Emoton	A very nice slow song from the "Vihma" album.
	Päivän..	"Päivän Nousu Nostajani" is a sad song from "Vihma".
	Laulutyttö	A more happy song from "Vihma" also.
	Maa..	"Maa ei Kerro" from "Vihma"
	Halla	A popular song from the "Kokko" album
	Iro	A good sample of their energetic high speed singing. "Kokko"
	Outona	"Outona Omilla Mailla" -I very like as they are singing this refrain. "Aitara"
	Hoptsoi	A speedy instrumental from "Seleniko" with a lot of accordion.
	Seelinnikoi	The "title song" from the "Seleniko" album
	Marilaulu	Marilaulu is a little similar to "The Binky Song" in the Arthur series , what is originally "Matalii ja Mustii" from the Seleniko album. They are not playing this kind of songs on the recent albums or concerts but I really like it." Oi Dai "

The next samples are from other groups where Värttinä members are involved or played as quest.

	Lansiranta	This is from the solo album of Markku Lepistö
	Delekatka	My favorite from the "Tsihi Tsihi" album of Sirmakka. (Sari Kaasinen, quests are Marko Timonen,drums and Mari Kaasinen as arranger)
	Mania	Pekka Lehti and Marko Timonen in Zeta Boo , "ZetaBoo, 1996"
	MeahciJienat	Saami duo "Angelit" with Janne Lappalainen at the sax.

You can find usable samples on the next pages

	Arctic Paradise	Lets check the other Hoedown artists too. They are very good . Troka and JPP have more folky tunes than Värttinä and full with fiddle. Maria Kalaniemi and Kimmo Pohjonen are accordion players. Maria is jazzy and Kimmo is more avantgard."
	NorthSide	Lots of Nordic Music.
	Outo voima	Longer samples from the album of Pekka Lehti

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