Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha had two songs featured on the Balkan Fever Helsinki album. And since I managed to remember the band’s name (Väärä Raha means “False Money”), I couldn’t simply ignore their new album. Not with that cover art.
According to Finnish Wikipedia, all members of the Helsinki-based band are originally from Lapland. If you ignore for a second the fact that it is sung in Finnish-ish, the music sounds more Balkan than what is offered by many “real” Balkan bands. Most of the songs on Lapland-Balkan are originals, apart from Verkkaan and Kiidä troikka (at first, I read the title as “kinda troika”), the latter being a Finnish version of Тройка мчится, тройка скачет by Pyotr Bulakhov.
Lapland-Balkan
Jarkko Niemelä: trumpet, alto horn, bouzouki, backing vocals; organ (5) Marko Roininen: accordion, backing vocals Tuomo Kuuri: double bass, backing vocals Janne Hast: drums
Antti Kujanpää: organ (1, 8) Matti Pitkänen: violin (2, 9) Laura Airola: violin (3, 6) Lucie Niemelä: vocals (6) Juho Kanervo: cello (6) Tomi Rikkola: viola (6) Petri Kautto: guitar (7, 11) Heikki Tuhkanen: trombone (10) Valtteri Bruun: guitar (12)
Recording and mixing by Valtteri Bruun Mastering by Pentti Dassum Cover illustration by Fanny Felicia Svanberg |  |
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