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Poropetra members:
Nancy: vocals
Elsa Pardonen: vocals
Juha Jyrkäs: throat-singing, 12-stringed kantele, djembe
Hittavainen: violin, jouhikko, mandoline, flutes & pipes, mouth harp, keyboards, backing vocals
Markus Ylikoski: electric guitar, backing vocals
Leo Herranen: bass, contrabass
Poropetra is old Finnish and means the Elk of Hiisi (Hiiden hirvi in Finnish) from Finnish mythology. Elk is an old totem animal for Finno-Ugric and Siberian peoples, which is why it describes so well bands music – ethnic rock. The music gets it’s inspiration from the musical traditions of Finno-Ugric peoples, Tuvinian throat-singing and ethnic/world music altogether – combining in this mixture the elements of psychedelic rock, progressive rock, punk, blues and traditional heavy rock music. The more exact and accurate genre-definition shall be left to a listener to decide.
Poropetra was founded by Juha Jyrkäs in the year 2002. The first demo-tape Poropetra -MCD was published already in the year 2004. Poropetra’s first full album, Sinihirwi presented the electrified distorted kantele sound along with basic electric guitar, which made a whole new soundscape to the songs.
Sinihirwi album, published in 18.7.’07, showed all playing skills of the band members - in versatile and original way. A 250 print limited edition of Sinihirwi is now more or less sold out. Another edition will be taken in the near future. So far Poropetra hasn’t yet signed with any label.
Nancy: vocals
Elsa Pardonen: vocals
Juha Jyrkäs: throat-singing, 12-stringed kantele, djembe
Hittavainen: violin, jouhikko, mandoline, flutes & pipes, mouth harp, keyboards, backing vocals
Markus Ylikoski: electric guitar, backing vocals
Leo Herranen: bass, contrabass
Poropetra is old Finnish and means the Elk of Hiisi (Hiiden hirvi in Finnish) from Finnish mythology. Elk is an old totem animal for Finno-Ugric and Siberian peoples, which is why it describes so well bands music – ethnic rock. The music gets it’s inspiration from the musical traditions of Finno-Ugric peoples, Tuvinian throat-singing and ethnic/world music altogether – combining in this mixture the elements of psychedelic rock, progressive rock, punk, blues and traditional heavy rock music. The more exact and accurate genre-definition shall be left to a listener to decide.
Poropetra was founded by Juha Jyrkäs in the year 2002. The first demo-tape Poropetra -MCD was published already in the year 2004. Poropetra’s first full album, Sinihirwi presented the electrified distorted kantele sound along with basic electric guitar, which made a whole new soundscape to the songs.
Sinihirwi album, published in 18.7.’07, showed all playing skills of the band members - in versatile and original way. A 250 print limited edition of Sinihirwi is now more or less sold out. Another edition will be taken in the near future. So far Poropetra hasn’t yet signed with any label.
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majo334 wrote:
this is one of the most stunning nordic folk music i have heard in my life. its the archaic beauty of dark karelian winterforests.
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Anna_Jantarka wrote:
Amazing!
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Holtiton wrote:
Hi! All Poropetra fans should check out the other band mine, Tevana 3: http://www.last.fm/music/Tevana+3 It's metal with electric kantele, strongly influenced with Celtic Frost! Tevana 3's debute album "Mieron tiellä" is now out and you can order it from the address poropetra ät gmail dot com. :)
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bohenix wrote:
kurwa! dobre:)!
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Jatmundr wrote:
Best finnish folk I`ve ever heard.
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Sif_Northman wrote:
AMAZING!
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Holtiton wrote:
Hi folks! I've published now a solo demo also. You can download it free from here: http://www.last.fm/music/Juha+Jyrk%C3%A4s The musical style is doom metal, hard rock and punk - played with 15-stringed electric kantele. No ethnic influences and no other string instruments are used! ;)
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xbathory666x wrote:
jajaj wooww!! exceleentt! :P
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mcft81 wrote:
I love the sound of this music! Great!
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DarkShiny wrote:
Only one thing to say "love it"!
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Holtiton wrote:
Hi! Check this out: http://www.last.fm/music/VMMA+%28FIN%29 It's a page for VMMA, my first band before Poropetra. No ethnic, but metal stuff influenced by Slayer, Sepultura and Machine Head with punkish attitude.
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Link-chan wrote:
Great band.
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Holtiton wrote:
I have also a solo page now: http://www.myspace.com/juhajyrkas
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umbralnergal wrote:
beautiful folk music i love
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riteandritual wrote:
Awesome! I hope your albums come with lyrics or you're going to put them up on your site - even though I speak finnish I can't make them out unaided.
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Holtiton wrote:
I know our music is very hard to put in any genre, but the way I see it, "ethnic rock" is the best definition I've found. In our forthcoming album it'll be seen better than any of our previous albums. :)
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Opferblut wrote:
Great stuff, like Nostatus.
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Holtiton wrote:
Our first album, "Sinihirwi" is once again available! :) If you don't have a copy of it, you can order it with 10 €uros by sending me some e-mail into address poropetra at gmail dot com.
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Holtiton wrote:
We've been writing some new material and it's once again quite different comparing to Sinihirwi. New songs are a fusion of many different elements: metal, rock, blues, ethnic music, progressive music and Finno-Ugric myths and legends. We've had also many line-up changes as well, so the soundscape shall be very different also. :)
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Holtiton wrote:
Poropetra isn't folk band and it isn't metal band either. The description of Sinihirwi - ethnic metal - comes from both influences, but the result isn't either of them. I admit that it is misleading, but I had to come up with some description when promoting our CD. Our music style is very hard to describe well, since we don't have any musical limits.
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Caravanheart tagged Poropetra with kantele, neofolk, finnish and one other tag. yesterday morning
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SickDeathCity and mielus added Poropetra to their libraries. last month
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WolfBird324 tagged Poropetra with folk metal, neofolk, finnish and one other tag. last month
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DarkHimmel tagged Poropetra with finnish metal, folk metal, neofolk and one other tag. November 2011
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Turdulus created the Portuguese wiki page for Poropetra. October 2011
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tobyvungex, oregerdo, kezwilliams13 and 2 other people added Poropetra to their libraries. October 2011
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Belial_ tagged Poropetra with ‘neofolk’. August 2011
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meld0n tagged Poropetra with folk metal, tribal rhythm, folk rock and 4 other tags. August 2011
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