Hedningarna - Täss'on Nainen

[Beelzebubbbbles]

Extraordinary. I'm off to the shops at the weekend to dig this one out, it's a must have.

[EneriGiilaan]

@Beelzebubbbbles I really hope you find the record ("Trä") - a wonderful album, but it seems to be rarity at these days. Amazon has the CD available at times, but not consistently - MP3 loads of the record are also available there.

Digelius Music in Finland also tends to have them available. They have no order form in their web pages - but they sell internationally, you just have to call them or send Email (English is OK). Me and some others have found their service excellent.

[Beelzebubbbbles]

@EneriGiilaan Thanks for the advice, I'll check out Digelius Music. I live in Helsinki, so I shouldn't have too much trouble locating Finnish folk albums!

[EneriGiilaan]

@Beelzebubbbbles OK - good :D

I did check your profile before answering and it said IE - but never mind ;)

You could perhaps check their other records likewise - at least the ones with also have the female vocalists: "Kaksi!" and "Karelia Visa"

[ralphyboy25]

@Beelzebubbbbles And while my friend Eneri doesn't mention it above, I would also check out their CD "Hippjokk". It doesn't have the women vocalists on it, mostly instrumental works, but definely a nice addition to round out any Hedningarna collection :)

[Beelzebubbbbles]

@ralphyboy25 Cheers, I'll check that out too.

[jafuso61]

Magical

Thank you very much!

[jurrien75]

This is like ancient trance music.. I can imagine that the people in scandinavia in ancient times used simular repeating sounds to make time pass faster in the long dark winters.

[gmj2012]

Amazingly beautiful music, foreign language lyrics, a chanting, pagan tribal sound to this I love!

[Alvarezpl]

Love it.

[laelamarie1]

have notice dancers doing this group's music....personally I would take on this very challenging rhythm... completely spellbinding and that's how I would use it

[ralphyboy25]

@laelamarie1 Now that's a tree !

[laelamarie1]

@ralphyboy25 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[karthik4salu]

Takes me to some other world

[Miroslavus1111]

Nadherna hudba. What a beautiful song :). 

[kortes1975]

There is lady, who sure

all that glitters is gold

and she's.........

[ballaudhep12]

the most weird thing I have ever heard, but wonderful xD

Like everyting in Sweden <3

[EneriGiilaan]

@ballaudhep12 The lyrics are of course Finnish - based on ancient Finnish oral tradition.

BTW 'syntini' should be probably not translated as 'my sin' but 'by birth'/'my origins'.

[ballaudhep12]

@EneriGiilaan How come?! I was sure they are singing in Swedish. Aren't they?

[EneriGiilaan]

@ballaudhep12 The guys are Swedish and they sing in Swedish, but they used to have two Finnish ladies singing in Finnish. There were in total 4 different women during the times, but it was always 2 at a time and they were Finns.

The Finnish lyrics were mostly from the Finnish folklore. Some of their most haunting pieces were also composed by one of them, Sanna Kurki-Suonio - this is one of them expressing the shamanistic elements of the Finnish tradition. There are many others 'Tina Vieri' etc.

[laelamarie1]

@EneriGiilaan fortunate to have this CD, and wouldn't you know everything written in it is is some "other language" including the instuments used....didn't recognize anything that might resemble the zurna, an oboe-like instument but I'm certain that's what I am hearing...does your expertise extend to the musical instuments? Grateful. and thank you.....

[gmj2012]

@laelamarie1 I thought it was chanting, so now I feel like an idiot that it is actually a foreign language singing, though most chanting is also the same. I love the uniqueness of their sound and the beauty.

[laelamarie1]

@gmj2012 (I like you) their music has a pagan feel as they do incorporate those elements - I had no idea the Scandanavian countries could equal the Celts in that - the Sami people also have this type that uncannily resembles the native American music. See Mari Boine Person. Saw your profile - would like to live 5 lifetimes!! Wonderful profile!!

[gmj2012]

@laelamarie1 Pagan and Native American are the 2 cultures I know most about--but not nearly an expert in either. I do love other cultures tribal--as I call it for lack of a universal word--music, chants, drums, different instruments especially, including vocals. Foreign languages don't really stand in my way of enjoying them, music is universal in that way for me. I loved the Mari/Sami music too, created a playlist just for her stuff, she's INCREDIBLE! Thank YOU for that treat :)

[SwedeBoy27]

@laelamarie1 Do you mean the high pitched "whining" instrument that starts a rail at about 2:01? That would most likely be a "Krumhorn" (Crumhorn in english, look it up on wikipedia)

[laelamarie1]

@SwedeBoy27 thank you for the info. It led me on an interesting journey ultimately leading to the common thread between the zurna and the krumhorn (shawn)...also discovering the group Gryphon. Thanks again!

[revrusty2000]

too bad the photo is right next to a farm...would love to see the heart of the forest at this point.

[stalkernic]

ОХУ-ННАЯ МУЗЫКА

[RenGader]

Sounds like Mongolian music

[OldWaysFollower]

amazing song and lyrics. Is its topic about Ilmatar, the primeval Goddess from the Finnish religion, described in the first chapters of Kalevala?

[wiecox]

there is no love it's the love behind

[vivemaker]

Epic

[nocturnaobscura]

Thank you for the division(sharing) of this music it is my song to prefer

[Ljomi]

This is *freak'ing* incredible!!!! I 've never heard anything like this! I'm getting this album. This is UNBELIEVABLE!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!

[ubbecykelkedja]

@Ljomi Always equally awesome to read about people who find the band for the first time. It's so easy to relate.

[mark1991ization]

Fińscy poganie nigdy nie umrą !

[picnicbiker]

Dla mnie, to ich najlepszy kawałek; ta muzyka od 15 lat (kiedy to słuchałem jej po raz pierwszy) nie straciła na atrakcyjności. Ponadczasowa SZtuka przez wielkie SZ!

[mark1991ization]

@picnicbiker Potwierdzam. SZtuka przez ogromne SZ !

[babasimana83]

great stuff!

[Zombecz]

Pagan rites and songs will never disappear!:-) Whatever other f*d up religions do! Great song! Cheers from Hungary brothers and sisters!

[FreakyGremlinDK]

not bad, not bad at all :)

[alarik36]

This song probably has it´s roots in the iron-age. The clothes that are described sounds like viking-age or earlier. Girdles and buckles were worn in the iron-age and by rich people in the bronze-age. The nature-beings like elfs that are sung about, are living underneath aspens. It´s a pre-christian world..

[EneriGiilaan]

Hedningarna surely are a great band. They still are, but specifically I adore their stuff when they had these Finnish women as vocalists. I admit that as a Finn myself I'm probably a bit biased - but that is my experience anyway.

This specific piece is pure Fenno-Ugric shamanism. Text is from ancient Finnish runo collections, the singing style bases on shamanistic traditions and the accompanying music is stylishly just how it should be.

An excellent performance.

[Dzikson13]

Genialne, potrafi wprowadzić w lekki trans :)

[castoro83]

- Proud to be Pagan!!!!

[Steph9737]

i LOVE IT

[JURAALRE]

Magic in the air, that´s this wonderful music. From a spanish whom feels norse

[Terror11je]

magical, i know it for years, have 5 albums by now.... tickles ones imagination....;-)

[dogofman]

Nån annan som hittat nåt om Turania som jag gjorde för ett tag sen. Det var riktigt upplyftande för skrattmusklerna att läsa om de saker som beskrevs där.

[FRcypher]

OMG! WOW!!!!

These countries have some skill! Lovely

[xxindigoAphrodithexx]

rhytm rhytm.. love the rhytm...

[Imalin83]

Do you know when I can find this song's text in polish ???????????

Write me, pelase :)

[swinki33]

@Imalin83 First, learn english, koleś...

[Imalin83]

@swinki33

chyba każdy może napisać coś źle i nie trzeba tego od razu wytykać koleś :)

a w ogóle to jestem dziewczyną

[swinki33]

@Imalin83

Przepraszam Cię, Imalin83. :)

I am sorry, Imalin83 :)

[Imalin83]

ok  pozdrawiam :))

[kiltyfanad]

Hat mal jemand den Text???? =)

[Tracker129]

Täss´ on nainen tuulen tuoma tuulen tuoma ve´en vetämä meren aaltojen ajama meren tyrskyn työntelemä Kuin mie käynen laulamahan laulan mie meret mesiksi suoloiksi meren somerot meren hiekat hernehiksi Yhen vyöni vyötännällä yhen paitani panolla solkeni solittamalla polkimeni painamalla Nouse luontoni lovesta syntini syvästä maasta syntini syvästä maasta haavan alta haltiainen.

[braindeathz]

Клёвая песня, мне нравиться.

[kiltyfanad]

Extrem GEIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[krolikxxxx]

Pure magic, i can feel that natural energy... It`s also very, very sexy...

[Kainlarsen]

@krolikxxxx It's incredibly seductive... But also maternal.

[angiehexhex]

==))====> absolutly feelings ................

[hammerita]

Excellent! I feel the contact between East and West.

[Uuuurk]

sweden and finland u mean?:)

[VideoMaggie]

@Uuuurk I laugh at this comment for ages every time I come listen to this song

[melzeta1]

sdfkhksd sdfgpo itigrj wpfj sgpowe wegp ew egi wergppg wegg i wpg w grgo gpwerhojd dhkd hpd edfh

[CanadiaNecro1]

this album tra, wood, makes me so HOT. hedningarna is the shit! just listen to those folk lyrics, I would claw some scand boy to pieces after listening to this!!!

[kamelot1970]

I am glad to have discovered scandanavian folk music..Beautiful

[ericakenny24]

any English translation available? I would be grateful : )

[erwinzoutman]

Somebody post it already, see on the next page of the comments

[514Designer]

Here's a woman, brought by northwind

brought by northwind, pulled by waters,

washed ashore by waves of oceans,

drifted here on rising billows.

When but I begin my chanting

I'll sing seas to mead and honey

bottom gravel all to saltgrains

sands of sea to beans uncounted

[Shrekdonkey09]

Amazing!

[MarcellusReadhead75]

Fantastic music! I like celtic music, in particular scottish and irish folk, but this music bring me a new kind of feelings! Amazing!!! I want to hear more escandinavian folk music!!!

[Fyllbulten]

Check out "Garmarna: Herr Holger...

[lmeck]

Incredible song, amazing !!!

[Daividh555]

Mayby Europe invades usa and teaches them real music!

[arjantjeee]

Europe already did invade america :/ where do you think all the white people are from? :/ but they all say theyre "American!" but theyre not...

[Glargl]

I consider myself lucky to have seen them live before the two Finnish female singers left the band. Not that they're bad now, but damn they were great back then.

[dirzant]

How is it possible that almost nobody knows this magnificent music? And why did I myself not heard it until 2 years ago?

[nybassplayer]

i didn t know about it until 1994

when a friend recorded me a copy of the original record it was very cool

[0415889]

better late that never (:

[nybassplayer]

i haven t been able to find this for like 20 years lol i first heard it in salamanca spain and then my buddy bootlegged it up for me on cassette and then i couldn t find it for years cool thought it was lost for ever this is the shit!

[Fyllbulten]

Love! Nordic pagan music is the most beautiful act on earth.

I know cause I´m swedish ; )

Check our Garmarna, hit pick: Herr Holger. Get lost in it for ever!

[Treewich]

English translation:

Here's a woman, brought by northwind

brought by northwind, pulled by waters,

washed ashore by waves of oceans,

drifted here on rising billows.

When but I begin my chanting

I'll sing seas to mead and honey

bottom gravel all to saltgrains

sands of sea to beans uncounted

[Treewich]

Just by once my girdle tying,

just by once my shirt on taking

once by fastening my buckles

once my feet in shoes by thrusting.

Rise, my nature, off the earth now,

lift my sin from ground beneath me,

lift my sin from ground beneath me,

fay from underneath the aspen

[Saturnius7]

Thank you very much, I've been looking for translation of this song for years! :)

[kainoliero]

@Treewich "Syntini" can also mean "my birth/origin" in old Finnish ("syntyni" in modern tongue). In this context that would make more sense, so that she would be rising her own spirit.

[EneriGiilaan]

@kainoliero You must be right. 'Sin' just doesn't seem to make much sense here.

I think 'birth/origin' must/can be the right interpretation in number of other old lyrics also. I have been baffled on occasions about that - but it just does prove my dilettantism in these matters that I have never known of that quite obvious interpretation.

I guess synti (sin) is a Christian concept and while e.g., Kalevala has some Xtian influence - the concept just doesn't fit with the clearly old layer stuff.

[3Ronja3Rovardotter3]

I don´t have words..excellent music.

[AllMyNicksTaken]

Simply beautiful!