Your Old Uncle Nundanket brings you the gift of some mellow, if melancholic, music this Easter. It’s been a long time since I treated you so, and you deserve it.
You may recognise the tune, if not the specific words. The singer, the late Topi Sorsakoski*, had, in my opinion, a super voice and imbued the song with such meaning that you don’t have to understand the words.
https://youtu.be/0IrTUI1owLg?si=oRv2eci3TpphcT6e
* not his real name, I believe. The surname translates as Duck Rapids.
Lyrics below so you can sing along. And practice rrrolling your Rrrs.
Kitara soi: the guitar plays. Other keywords:
surua: sorrow.
Suru vain: only sadness
Sointi sen nyt minulle tumma on: its sound to me is dark now
Think you get the picture.
Thanks for sharing this , l am reminded of The Shadows. Makes me realise there is a whole world of music out there l have yet to discover…
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
You’re welcome Alan. It does remind me of the Shadows. It’s that guitar sound. That style of guitar music (Rautalanka: Iron wire) is still quite common over in Finland. Not so much a style of music, more a style of playing. Lots more on YouTube if you search for ‘rautalanka’. All kinds of music genres get the treatment.
DeleteChris
Not a style known to me, much preferring Sibelius and 'Finlandia', which I find very soothing to listen to.
ReplyDeleteSo you weren’t dancing around the house with Mrs J then Steve? I’ll see if I can find something more soothing.
DeleteChris
Excellent, nicely mournful, I saw the Leningrad cowboys at festival once they were great fun!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Ha ha! I can imagine. Don’t think the Red Army choir would sing with them these days.
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