TREPAANIT - a combination of masculine emotion and power These four young musicians have experienced folk music to the full, they have truly found the power and might of playing. As in the lyrics of an innocent roundelay, they “make little birches sway like the mighty spruces of the deep woods”. They turn a trifling strophe into a life-size expression. The ensemble consists of the Tuvan string instrument igil, the heart-breaking lament of the Karelian bowed lyre, the Irish bouzouki, the tow-row accordion from southern Ostrobothnia and a completely new instrument called vantele, developed because the existing instruments could not interpret what the musicians had in mind. The timbre of the strings is hypnotic and the sound of the ensemble unique. From time to time, this soundscape is completed by primeval overtone singing or a growling throat tone. Yet, what touches you the most in this music is its lengthy, archaic aesthetics: its hasteless lingering full of underlying, explosive might and its undisguised masculine sensitivity. Eero Turkka: vocals, throat singing, jouhikko, igil Riku Kettunen: mandolin, vantele Olli Varis: bouzouki Antti Paalanen: 1-, 2- ja 3- row accordeons
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	Trepaanit on tour:
	09/12/2009	HELSINKI - Perinnearkku-klubi / Studio Krunikka, Meritullinkatu 33, 4 krs, at 20.30. www.perinnearkku.net
	10/12/2009	TAMPERE - Rahvaanmusiikin kerho / Telakka, Tullikamarinaukio 3, at 20.30. www.rahvaanmusiikinkerho.net
	11/12/2009	SEINÄJOKI - Viriä-klubi / Kivirikon juhlahuoneisto, Puskantie 38
	12/12/2009	KUOPIO - Folk-klubi / Ravintola Apteekkari, Kauppakatu 18, at 19.00
	13/12/2009	KOKKOLA - Akkuna / Kokkolan Tullipakkahuone, Tullikamarinkatu 1, at 17.00