Ulla Pirttijärvi

Musiikkia Lapista ("music from Lapland") is a regional umbrella for the contemporary sounds emerging from Finland's far north. It blends Sámi vocal and folk traditions with Finnish-language rock, indie-pop, electronic music, and even metal, all colored by Arctic imagery and spacious, frost-tinged…

Sámi music is the musical expression of the Indigenous Sámi people of Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula). At its heart is the joik (North Sámi: luohti; South Sámi: vuelie; Skolt Sámi: leu’dd; Inari Sámi: livđe) — a vocally driven tradition in which a person…