_inbetween_ linked this...

[yakalskovich]

... and I totally have to spread it one as I know there's several people on my flist that are seriously into wacky Finns and their wacky but beautiful music (and you don't even have to understand Finish as it's subtitled, but the Finnish version is better):

HELSINKI COMPLAINTS CHOIR on GooTube

Thanks for that, 'Tweey! It made my Friday. 'On se niin väärin...'

ETA: Also, the bloke in the last row who gets to shout into the megaphone? Looks a lot like Maglor, so now we know where he's hiding - he's in Finland and singing in choirs...

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The bloke is one of the organisers, I think, because he's also in the UK version, link is on the youtube site, but it's sadly boring *gasp* unlike this choir.


Link me if you ever find similarly sounding music.

[yakalskovich]

I love it to bits; posted it to the Morningstar Manor OOC comm as well because many people there really like Finland and the Finns.

I think much of the serious modern choral music from Finland is rather like that; that's part of what makes it so funny - the composition is totally straight 'moderne E-Musik' (I think there's no easy term for that in English). It gets composed by the barrel at Sibelius Academy.

P.S.

[yakalskovich]

Here's link to the artists - I prefer Helsinki to Birmingham, but then, Finns have quie a different choral tradition.