Songs
From album: RAMMAT JUMALAT (2013)
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- country:Finland
- style(s):Folk, Psychedelic
- label:Helmi Levyt
- type:Solo, Trio
- gender:male
- artist posted by:Pekko Käppi
Line up
- Nuutti Vapaavuori (bass. vocals)
- Pekko Käppi (jouhikko, vocals, lofi-electronics)
- Tommi Laine (guitar. vocals, percussions)
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Biography
Pekko Kappi is a Finnish neo-folk music composer, singer and a player of Jouhikko, the ancient Finnish-Karelian bowed lyre. He incorporates elements from blues and rock and experimental archaic chaos. His music has been described as 'swaying between the foul and lovely dirty and pure
As a singer and a researcher he is well-versed in the Finnish runo-singing tradition among the older layers of Finnish folk songs. His debut album "Jos ken pahoin uneksii" was released in 2007 and nominated for the Finnish ethno-grammy award. The second full-lenght album "Vuonna '86" was released in February 2010 and received the Folk Music Album of the Year-award in Finland. Kappi has a strong ethnomusical approach in his work, but has worked with various artists across the differenet genres of music around the world.
Kappi's latest album was released in March 2013 and has gotten ecstatic reviews in Finnish media. Kappi is touring at the moment in Finland with his new band Pekko Kappi & K:H:H:L:
Discography
Pekko Kappi: Rammat Jumalat. Helmi Levyt, 2013.
Pekko Kappi: Vuonna '86. Helmi levyt/Singing Knives, 2010.
Pekko Kappi: Jos ken pahoin uneksii. Peippo, 2007.
Pekko Kappi: Hevonsilmae tulikekaele. The Amazed Map, Music Fellowship 2007
Pekko Kappi: Kalastajia ja Kaivostyoelaeisiae, APREC, 2001.
Pekko Kappi: Bubnit sebje pod nos. 267 Lattajjaa, 2003.
Pekko Kaeppi: Minun paeivaekunnissani. Imvated, 200
