 An evening with Finnish singing sensations Värttinä! Celebrating the release of their tenth studio album Miero on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label, Värttinä has been riding high in the “world music” arena for sixteen of their twenty three years as a group. The latest album Miero has received rave reviews throughout the world, and charted in both English and European Top 10 lists. Previous albums have also topped world music charts on both sides of the Atlantic.Värttinä has received additional notoriety as the co-composers of The Lord of the Rings stage adaptation which played in Toronto in 2006 and will premiere in London in May/June 2007.
”...sharply close harmonies spat out as if the three singers personified wild creatures weaving dangerous spells and the vocals are offset by fiery fiddles and rock-edged guitars.” (Jan Fairley, Songlines) ”...a stabbing pace and edgy vocal harmonies making a uniquely Värttinä reactivation of the language, imagery and almost ritualistic insistency of runo-song scales and rhythms, backed by an ever inventive and hot instrumental team.” (Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots)
***** (5 stars) ”...at their wild and scary best. Dark and fierce with lyrics sharp enough to draw blood.” (Simon Broughton, London Evening Standard)
”...a Viking fierceness to the music of top folk group Värttinä – three Wagnerian blondes who boot into their all-acoustic music with a hard rock swagger. Backed by swirling fiddles and accordions amd remorseless pounding drums, their exultant, semi-polyphonic singing is at once strident and alluring.” (Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph)
”...by far their most experimental album....fuses storming global beats with wild fiddles and accordions while conveying genuine menace...” (Nigel Williamson, The Times)
”...another exhilarating concoction of wild female vocals, crisp, asymmetric rhythms and stirring Nordic melodies.” (John L. Walters, The Guardian) Sponsored by KFAI! 
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