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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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| Sinihirwi | 5:06 | |
| Sinisulka | 3:45 |
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Caravanheart tagged Poropetra with kantele, neofolk, finnish and one other tag. yesterday morning
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Belial_ tagged Poropetra with ‘neofolk’. August 2011
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