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CD No: SHD51 by Piniartut called Piniartut. Released: 2001

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The Review: Fantastic! The joint product of four talented artists from three countries all spread across the northern latitudes, named Piniartut ("The Hunters"). Tellu Virkkala and Ville Kangas from Finland, join Rasmus Lyberth from Greenland and Kristian Blak from the Faroe Islands, to integrate traditional music from their respective Nordic homelands using hunting and fishing as the focus. The male/female, young/old vocals, mora harp, spoken word, bouzouki, violin, piano, organ, double bass, throat singing, percussion, sound effects and electric guitar are a spectrum of complimentary effect throughout ten tracks. It is difficult to account for the uncanny unity of what happens here. The songs defy categorization and idiom. They are acoustically descriptive, often subdivided, littered with sturdy tunes and enclosed in an expansive harmonic envelope. What resonates in this atmosphere is an ancient call, a simple human virtue, long declining if not totally forgotten in most industrialized places: that of pure being. As a whole it represents a mythic place one cannot physically visit; as a marriage of three folk sound-worlds, it can only be seen by the imagination. To the clean ear, "The Hunters," a suite of songs and recitations, feels like a movie made of sound; wild, elemental, honest, wondrous, vast and human - the uncorrupted sort. Piniartut is that rare case where a pluralism of essential lore and innovative studio assembly come together to create the best experience a recording can offer and for which no other musical event can substitute; a beautiful living retreat to a place you've never been and hopefully have not yet forgotten.- Steve Taylor Features Hedningarna's Tellu Virkkala. Key words:

The Band: Piniartut Faroe Islands

Band members:
38 Kristian Blak (Piano, Organ, Grass Straw 57


CD Tracks: 1. Verkko - >>the net<<
2. Rysä - >>the fishing trap<<
3. Eqalussuaq - Tuonen Hauki - >>the pike of death<<
4. Piniartoq - >>hunter<<
5. Malugaara Ilunni - >>deep inside myself<<
6. Ilvedur - >>stormy weather<<
7. Hylje - >>the seal<<
8. Auld Swaara - >>the old dark sweater<<
9. Aino
10. Ullorissat Untritillit - >>thousands of stars<<