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“Värttinä’s tenth studio album Miero is released by Peter Gabriel’s Real World company worldwide January 30, 2006 to coincide with their appearance on January 22 at MIDEM music convention in Cannes, performing on the main stage for the Finnish Opening Night... The very first Värttinä album to feature the same line-up as its predecessor, Miero broadens some musical pathways Värttinä first explored on 2000's Ilmatar and 2003's iki. These include a greater emphasis on lead vocals, more sparse arrangements instead of all six instruments playing and all three singers singing all the way through every song, and an increased willingness to sound creepy, dissonant, and perhaps even a bit mysterious at points. The band also exhibits its trademark high energy and rapid-fire alliterative vocals often enough to please most of its old fans, while adding new depth -- literally and figuratively -- to its vocal harmonies.”

“Värttinä
Värttinä’s tenth studio album Miero is released by Peter Gabriel’s Real World company worldwide January 30, 2006 to coincide with their appearance on January 22 at MIDEM music convention in Cannes, performing on the main stage for the Finnish Opening Night.”
“Scott Gianelli, Greenmanreview
In the summer of 1995, as I was relaxing at Central Park Summerstage in between sets of a show, some music came over the loudspeakers that was unlike anything I had ever heard before. A group of women were singing tight, strange harmonies in a seemingly alien language while the musicians played their own brand of folk music, bringing in elements of rock, jazz, Balkan, and even African into a style, which, at its base, was not something I recognized. I wasn't sure what it was, but I knew I had to have it. The album being played was Aitara, from the Finnish band Värttinä. This began an obsession with modern Scandinavian folk music that has now lasted over 10 years and continues unabated. Over that time Värttinä has undergone many changes, both in terms of their personnel and their constantly evolving style. I used to get upset when a member of the band that I had gotten attached to left, but like fans of Fairport Convention I learned to take the arrivals and departures in stride. The regular addition of new blood has kept Värttinä's sound from going stale, and the band prides itself not only in not re-hashing previous albums, but in challenging themselves to continually expand the boundaries of what fits into Finnish folk music and challenging their older fans to stick with them.
Since late 2003, when they were asked to contribute music to the theatrical adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Värttinä have been particularly busy. Even their time off from Lord of the Rings was active, as they wrote, arranged, and recorded their tenth studio album, Miero. 2006 shapes up not only to be another busy year for the band, but perhaps their biggest year in terms of attention and publicity. The stage production finally premieres in Toronto on March 23, and Miero came out in January to strong sales (top 10 in the pop charts) in Finland and favorable press elsewhere. The very first Värttinä album to feature the same line-up as its predecessor, Miero broadens some musical pathways Värttinä first explored on 2000's Ilmatar and 2003's iki. These include a greater emphasis on lead vocals, more sparse arrangements instead of all six instruments playing and all three singers singing all the way through every song, and an increased willingness to sound creepy, dissonant, and perhaps even a bit mysterious at points. The band also exhibits its trademark high energy and rapid-fire alliterative vocals often enough to please most of its old fans, while adding new depth -- literally and figuratively -- to its vocal harmonies.
Miero opens energetically with "Riena (Anathema)," an angry vocal attack against a betrayer. This song is propelled by Jaska Lukkarinen's drumming and Hannu Rantanen's dark, sinister bass line, with a couple of flourishes involving the rest of the band. The vocals begin with a shrill squeal and end with some frenzied, dissonant harmonies. The band slows things down with "Valhe (The Lie)." The singers exploit the alliterative nature of the Finnish language in the chorus, rolling the Rs in "Enää en oo narri narrattava (I won't be a fool anymore, I'm not to be cheated)" to great effect as the band effortlessly plays in 11/4 meter. "Mataleena" starts out with some vocal percussion involving the singers and Lukkarinen, but the song is also distinguished by an unusually dissonant and deep harmony part in the final verse.
Markku Lepistö opens "Synti (The Sin)" by rapidly repeating a very low, slightly distorted note on his accordion. The staccato theme re-emerges throughout the song, sometimes with different notes or with other instruments joining in. Singer Mari Kaasinen gets very witch-like towards the end of this song, as she screeches out a curse against the men who gossip against her. The next song "Maaria" is one of the srongest tracks on Miero thanks to an exquisite Gypsy-inspired lead vocal from Susan Aho. The band then ties together two songs, "Miero (Outcast)" and "Mierontie (The Path of the Outcast)." The first part, an a capella song, features a prominent male vocal -- a very rare event in Värttinä's music -- from fiddler Lassi Logrén.
The most melodic song on the album is "Mustat Kengät (The Black Shoes)." Johanna Virtanen made a big impact in her debut with the band on iki, especially due to her great lead vocals on "Tuulen Tunto (To Feel the Wind)," and she delivers yet another strong performance here. The subdued "Lupaus (The Promise)" describes being far from home, in a way that could be interpreted both in the sense of a great voyage from a traditional poem and in the context of a band that is constantly on the road. Most Värttinä albums feature at least one lively Balkan-influenced song, and "Lumotar (The Enchantress)" on the new album is one of the band's strongest Balkan songs to date. The style is nothing new for the band, but Värttinä sings and performs these songs with such spirit that it never gets old.
The instrumental "9 Lukkoa (9 Locks)" is the album's weakest link; it doesn't really do anything to distinguish itself from better tunes the band has done in the past. By contrast, the singers follow this with a fun a capella song "Eerama." A fairly deep (for a female singer), almost droning vocal part bounces the song along while the other two voices handle melody and harmony. Miero closes with the sad ballad "Vaiten Valvoin," another song featuring the lead vocals of Johanna Virtanen. This song also briefly features a kantele, the traditional Karelian harp that dominated Värttinä's very early sound. I was very sorry not to hear more of it.
Miero continues a long line of quality albums from a band that refuses to rest on its laurels and may, over 20 years after its inception, still be approaching its peak in popularity. The musicianship in Värttinä remains superb, and the vocals on Miero reach a new height for the band. Most of the songs are solid, with "Riena," "Maaria," "Mustat Kengät," and "Lumotar" ranking in the upper echelon of Värttinä's work. Long-time followers of Värttinä who know what to expect in terms of quality should be quite pleased, if not necessarily overwhelmed. And, like every album Värttinä has released before, Miero will lure in new converts wondering what exactly it was that they just heard.”

“Wikipedia
Värttinä (Finnish for spindle) is a Finnish folk music band which was started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen back in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band since then. Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1990 album Oi Dai.
As of 2009, the band consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians. The vocalists sing in the Karelian language of Finnish Karelia. Värttinä collaborated with A. R. Rahman, a famous composer from India, in composing the music for The Lord of the Rings, which played in Toronto in 2006 and opened in London in May 2007.
In August 2005, Värttinä recorded their tenth studio album called Miero at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki. It was released on January 25, 2006 in Finland, and January 30, 2006 worldwide. In 2006, Värttinä also released the Värttinä Archive Live DVD, which included material from their 20th anniversary concert and other new and archive material.
Värttinä has been featured on popular children's show Arthur singing their hit song "Matalii ja Mustii" from the album Seleniko. The song was also featured on the show's first soundtrack, Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (Or Tape).
History
Old Värttinä
The birth of Värttinä was heavily influenced by two sisters, Sari and Mari Kaasinen, from Rääkkylä. Guided by their mother, they had performed poems from the 1970s as a group named Tsupukat. After the group ceased in 1983, the girls established Värttinä, which they entered into a youth arts event and made their way into the finals. The following year they changed poem reading into singing, and this time the group won that same competition. In 1985 Värttinä, now having male members as well, made its first appearance in the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. Folk music circles became aware of the band as the one singing "korkeelta ja kovvoo" (high and loud).
Sari Kaasinen had become the leading member of Värttinä, and children in Rääkkylä were eager to join the band; as its biggest, the group accompanied 21 children. When the group finally couldn't be made any bigger, Sari established a band called Sirmakka for the youngest ones wanting to join.
In the beginning of 1987 Värttinä was selected as the "Ensemble of the Year" in Kaustinen. Their first record, Värttinä, was recorded in the following spring. Instruments used were kantele, acoustic guitar, double bass, violin, accordion, saxophone, flute, and tin whistle. They gained more publicity and, according to a guess by Sari Kaasinen, made over a hundred performances in one year.
Their next album Musta lindu was released in the summer of 1989. Playing skills and confidence had improved with age and experience, which can well be heard on the record. The pieces were Mari songs collected by Sari Kaasinen on her journeys; one of them was a composition of her own. In the end of the summer, returning home from Åland, it seemed that Värttinä had come to the end of its journey. The Kaasinen sisters, Janne Lappalainen, Kirsi Kähkönen and Minna Rautiainen didn't want to give up, though, as they had just found their own way of making music, and the beginning of the new Värttinä followed.
New Värttinä
The band's vocalists in 2006.
The band's instrumentalists in 2006.
In the beginning of the 1990s, the whole aforementioned group had moved to Helsinki and started training in premises of the Sibelius Academy. Sari started singing with the other girls, and the background line-up stabilized as consisting of Janne Lappalainen, Tommi Viksten, Tom Nyman, Riitta Potinoja, and Kari Reiman. Värttinä made a demo record which led to a recording contract with Sonet Records. The single Marilaulu, released in the autumn, increased the public interest even more, and the album Oi Dai, released in the spring of 1991, became the band's breakthrough. They had now formed their style, which consisted of strong and energetic female singing, music pieces based on the Finno-Ugric music tradition, and a band playing acoustic instruments. The style they created, mixing folk music into rock, jazz and popular music, was unheard of before.
The year 1992 brought a lot of concerts and the Emma Award, and some members were changed due to the tightening pace. In the end of the year, the album Seleniko was released with more compositions by the band than before. The record rose to the top of European world music charts and stayed there for three months. The album was released also in the USA, and the next year, when Oi Dai was released in the USA, too, the band started its first North-American tour. Music from the album Seleniko (an excerpt from the track Matalii ja mustii) was featured on the American children's television show Arthur.
After Seleniko, Antto Varilo became the guitarist and Pekka Lehti the bassist. On Aitara, recorded in the autumn of 1994, Anssi Nykänen plays the drums, but Marko Timonen played them in concerts. The record made it to the charts again and it was remembered for the tracks Tumala and Outona omilla mailla. The band toured around the North America and Europe. Many were interested in the women's distinctive way of singing, and they made an appearance on a record of Maggie Reilly.
Värttinä's sixth album Kokko was released in the end of 1996. The familiar note "trad." was not found in the credits of the pieces any more; the whole material was made by the band itself. After the release of Kokko, Värttinä started its first tours in Japan and Australia, even though Sari Kaasinen had to leave the band for family reasons, and only three women were left as singers.
In August 1998 their seventh album, Vihma, was released under the record company Wicklow Records, established by Paddy Moloney from the band Chieftains along with BMG. Värttinä's style can be said to have changed in Vihma. All compositions were made by the band's male members, and they contained more complex changes in time and also the singing melodies became rhythmically more diverse. Vihma made it to the charts around the world like its predecessors.
During the winter 1998–1999 Värttinä experienced yet another change of members. Susan Aho, originally joined to replace Riitta Kossi (previously Potinoja), became a permanent front-row singer, and Markku Lepistö joined to replace her as an accordionist. Riikka Väyrynen replaced the singer Sirpa Reiman.
In June 1999 Värttinä was awarded the BASF Master Award, given to artists, producers, recorders and studios for records gaining chart success and at the same time displaying high technical and artistic quality. The award has previously been given to e.g. Metallica and Shania Twain. After the award Värttinä moved to the studio to record their next album Ilmatar, released in the beginning of 2000. Ilmatar took the experimental and diverse style of Vihma even further. Äijö became the most popular song of this album, featured by singer Ismo Alanko. During the year, Värttinä toured around Japan and Europe, ending the tour in the Savoy theatre in Helsinki, where a live album of the same name was recorded on December 6. It was released in the beginning of the next year, simultaneously with the book Korkeelta ja kovvoo by Kimmo Nevalainen.
In 2001 Ilmatar was released in Brazil, and Värttinä performed in the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro for more than 200,000 people. Värttinä's line-up was changed again, when Johanna Virtanen joined to replace Riikka Timonen (previously Väyrynen) who had left the band, and Jaakko Lukkarinen replaced the drummer Marko Timonen.
Rebirth of Värttinä
In 2002, the violinist Kari Reiman, bassist Pekka Lehti and original Värttinä singer Kirsi Kähkönen left the band, too. Reiman was replaced by Lassi Logren, who had already been in the old Värttinä in his childhood. Hannu Rantanen became the bassist. Both had performed in the band before as substitutes. Värttinä thus started its "third era" with the singer trio Kaasinen-Aho-Virtanen. The first release with this line-up was Iki in 2003, when the band also celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Later in the same year Värttinä was invited to compose music for the The Lord of the Rings theatrical adaptation, based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Värttinä composed music for two and a half years together with A.R. Rahman, coordinated by Christopher Nightingale. The musical, premiered in Toronto in 2006 and moved to London in May 2007.
In December 2005 Värttinä was awarded the Finland Prize, awarded yearly by the Finnish Ministry of Education for considerable artistic merits and remarkable professional achievements. In January 2006 Värttinä released their eleventh album Miero. The album was the band's first one to be made under Real World Records, established by Peter Gabriel.
In 2008, Värttinä toured Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium, in support of their 25th anniversary CD. The concert in Tampere (Finland) was filmed by Filmiteollisuus Oy and was broadcasted on YLE Finnish national TV.
In late 2008, a new Värttinä book "Värttinä - Mierontiellä ja punaisella matolla" covering the story of Värttinä until now was published in Finland. Janne Lappalainen and Markku Lepistö departed the band.
Värttinä today
In late 2009, Lassi Logren and Antto Varilo departed the band. Accordionist and keyboard player Matti Kallio joined Värttinä.
In 2010, Susan Aho and Johanna Virtanen represented Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo as Kuunkuiskaajat. Their song Työlki ellää finished 11th in the semi-final.
Currently Värttinä are working on their next album.
Current lineup
Mari Kaasinen (vocals)
Susan Aho (vocals)
Johanna Virtanen (vocals)
Matti Kallio (accordion, keyboards)
Hannu Rantanen (basses)
Toni Porthén (drums, percussion)
Discography
Värttinä (1987)
Musta Lindu (1989)
Oi Dai (1991)
Seleniko (1992)
Aitara (1994)
Kokko (1996)
Vihma (1998)
Ilmatar (2000)
6.12. (2001) released as Live in Helsinki in the United States (live album)
Double Life (2002) - 2-CD compilation containing all of 6.12. and tracks from studio albums.
iki (2003)
Snow Angel (2005) - compilation including songs from studio and live albums
Miero (2006)
25 (2007) - compilation including songs from every Värttinä album throughout their career with previously unreleased Vipinäveet from the Miero sessions”

Tracklist:
1. Riena (3:30)
2. Valhe (4:16)
3. Mataleena (3:56)
4. Synti (4:06)
5. Maaria (4:49)
6. Miero (1:16)
7. Mierontie (2:48)
8. Mustat kengät (3:51)
9. Lupaus (5:39)
10. Lumotar (2:24)
11. 9 lukkoa (2:46)
12. Eerama (1:59)
13. Vaiten valvoin (4:31)

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