SUDEN AIKA PRESENTATION

In the music of Suden Aika (The Time of the Wolf), new and old traditions are combined: In our music, the age-old traditional Finnish oral poetry reciting meets the music of today. Suden Aika is a group of four female vocalists singing about women’s life in all its phases.

Suden Aika can’t be labeled as a traditional folk music group although our tone language draws its strong roots from the Nordic and Finno-Ugric folk music tradition. We compose our music ourselves, the arrangements are made together on the basis of improvisation.

Our texts are based either on ancient and recent lyrical folk poetry or on new poetry we have written ourselves using the old Finnish oral poetry verse metre. When you listen to the old poems, you can see how, in spite of all the changes in time, the basic things in the human life, the joys and sorrows, are still the same as they were two hundred years ago. The old Finnish poetical language (based on the Kalevala epic) is rich, colourful and beautiful and each listener is entitled to his own interpretation, there is no single official version. This rich Finnish oral tradition is what we want to maintain also on our part.

The main thing, of course, in our music is the singing but we also use lots of different musical instruments, such as different types of Finnish Kantele, Swedish Mora-harp, long wooden flutes and Udu-drums, etc.

You’ll find more information about us, the history of the group, singer biographies etc. under the following links: Group history, Singer biographies

You´ll find our concert calendar here.

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