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BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight

25 Jun 02 - 03:17 PM (#736697)
Subject: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: GUEST

Short notice I know. It's on a 9pm tonight:

The Incredible Finn Band: A humorous portrait of one of Finland's most extraordinary folk bands, JPP, reveals the importance of music in the contemporary life of Kaustinen, where they are based

I think that this was mentioned in another thread

25 Jun 02 - 04:05 PM (#736749)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: Gaffer

Thanks Guest - I'm back from setting my video! I remember Jim Lloyd claiming to have spent hours learning to pronounce their full name, only for them to abberviate it ti "JPP"! Gaffer

25 Jun 02 - 04:11 PM (#736753)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: greg stephens

well theyve all got their kit off now and whipping themselves with twigs. Yes, its cliche time

25 Jun 02 - 04:13 PM (#736755)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: greg stephens

thats better now. They're dresed again and the music's g0od.

26 Jun 02 - 05:20 AM (#737215)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: Sonnet

What a gem of a programme. How wonderful it must be to live in a community where tradition is cherished and allowed to evolve.

Jay

26 Jun 02 - 12:29 PM (#737448)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: Abuwood

Very Intersting music, almost Celtic sound but not quite..

27 Jun 02 - 06:50 AM (#738048)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: AKS

The reason for the abbreviation of the name of the band is that the players have grown up; Järvelän (a village, 'a place by or with a lake') Pikku ('little, tiny') Pelimannit (spelman 'player men') are not so little any more, having been playing together for some twenty years now. If you want to say JPP the Finnish way, it is yih-peh-peh.

And of course it sounds a bit Celtic if one does not know the truth which is the opposite; when the Celts - as pioneers of the Indo-Europeans - came to Europe a while ago, they got lots of musical influence from the natives who were already there: the Finno-Ugrians, you know Finn Mac Cool, Fenians, leprechauns and the like ;-)

AKS

27 Jun 02 - 07:16 AM (#738058)
Subject: RE: BBC4 (UK Cable TV) Finnish Folk Tonight
From: greg stephens

"almost celtic sounding but not quite". Well, I'd say that Finnish music sounds quite like Swedish music, Swedish music sounds quite like Norwegian music, Norwegian music sounds quie like Shetland music, Shetland music sounds quitelike northern Scottish music, northern Scottish music sounds quite like southern Scottish music, southern Scottish music sounds quite like northern English music, northern English music like southern English music blah blah blah. factor in a few sea-borne cultural short-cuts and you've got a pretty coherent picture.The simplest explanation is the best, unless you can find strong evidence to the contrary (Occam's razor).
Mythical 2000 year old history will never beat real 200 year old contacts.Musical links are made by real musicians doing real comunication as far as I can see! And what does Celtic music sound like? What exactly links Scottish and Galician, as opposed to Basque and Shetland, for example?