Sähköpaimen | Eve Crazy & Mar Yo – Etno-Espa

Sähköpaimen’s concert at Etno-Espa serves up a concoction of electronic folk music, drawing deep from Finnish, Karelian and Ingrian music traditions as well as contemporary sounds created through live looping, electronic beats and modular synthesisers. The music of Eve Crazy & Mar Yo represents a mix of Senegalese rap, Finno-Ugric folk music aesthetics and the tonal world of the kantele.

Programme

at 4 p.m.
Sähköpaimen
In 2023, the ensemble released an album titled Hämärä (Twilight) on the Nordic Notes record label. Twilight moments have been important in the passing down of folk traditions – people would come together as evenings grew darker, sharing stories and folklore from one generation to another. Sähköpaimen also draws from the other meaning of twilight: that of strange folktales and peculiar sounds heard at the edges of darkness.

Amanda Kauranne – vocals, jaw harp, live looping
Eero Grundström – electronic beats
Kirsi Ojala – wind instruments, jaw harp

at 5:15 p.m.
Eve Crazy & Mar Yo
Performing at Etno-Espa as a five-piece, the ensemble is centred around Senegalese rapper Eve Crazy, aka Awa Sané, and Rääkkylä-born kantele player and singer Mar Yo, aka Marjo Smolander. The duo’s music reflects on the universal experience of womanhood which traverses continent borders, by combining traditional music with the aesthetics of urban culture. The ensemble arrives at the Espa Stage armed with their brand-new album New Stories, released in May 2024.

Marjo Smolander – concert kantele, carbon fibre string kantele, kirjokannel, vocals, rap
Awa Sané – rap, vocals
Karoliina Kantelinen – vocals, flutes
A-P Rissanen – drums
Ndioba Gueye – bass