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Post by twilightheart on Jan 20, 2005 15:03:34 GMT 2
Could you tell us, what it´s approximately like? I´m interested, if the Finns (or finnish reviewers) like the band as much as us from other countries.
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 20, 2005 16:01:42 GMT 2
Ok, I tried to do a complete translation, but gave up. I just don't know how to turn five rows long sentences into english Lets just say, that the reviewer thinks that compared to the Spirit of the Forest there has been alot of improvement on Voice of Wilderness. Vocals are good, acoustic instruments have more space and songs have relatively more depth. He thinks technical side is working and sounds have developed into more stockier form but yet they have more room. The only bad thing he has to say about the album is the low amount of Finnish used in lyrics. In end he recommends the new record for those who liked the first one as well as those who like folk metal in general. Edit: Oh, yeah. He gave the album score of 8+/10
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Post by frostheim on Jan 20, 2005 17:44:25 GMT 2
Lets just say, that the reviewer thinks that compared to the Spirit of the Forest there has been alot of improvement on Voice of Wilderness. Vocals are good, acoustic instruments have more space and songs have relatively more depth. He thinks technical side is working and sounds have developed into more stockier form but yet they have more room. The only bad thing he has to say about the album is the low amount of Finnish used in lyrics. In end he recommends the new record for those who liked the first one as well as those who like folk metal in general. I must admit that I favour complex structures in my writing in general, but the main points of my review are well told above. I must honestly say that the new album surely surprised me, nice done guys, keep up the good spirit and work, kippis! PS. And aye, more of our beautiful mother tongue next time, hehe.
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 20, 2005 18:00:44 GMT 2
It's always nice to read rich and complex use of Finnish language for exchange, but trying to translate it into another language is hell And I agree: More Finnish is wanted ;D
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 20, 2005 18:11:13 GMT 2
...but the main points of my review Ah... so YOU reviewed it. Oh well... that of course doesn`t count as "common finnish opinion" about the album (as you`re a fan especially of folkish oriented music ... at least I think so, as I know your name from the Vintersorg forums etc.). Aren`t there any finnish reviews from normal wide-spread finnish music magazines? But maybe it`s too early for that at the moment...
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 20, 2005 18:24:38 GMT 2
Well, music magazine Soundi should arrive to my mailbox at 25th so maybe there's a review there. Or maybe not, who knows.
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Post by illumina on Jan 21, 2005 19:31:34 GMT 2
@band members Do you know if a promo was sent to Terrorizer magazine in the UK? It's about the only music magazine in this country whose reviewers I trust....
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Post by Jonne on Jan 22, 2005 11:04:57 GMT 2
@band members Do you know if a promo was sent to Terrorizer magazine in the UK? It's about the only music magazine in this country whose reviewers I trust.... Yes it is
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Post by Jonne on Jan 22, 2005 11:07:03 GMT 2
Oh well... you know, who you must say a word to, when you need a translation! a word
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 22, 2005 16:19:58 GMT 2
Just gimme some time... I´ll latest do it on Monday, if I don´t find the time on the weekend!
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Post by Jonne on Jan 22, 2005 18:08:07 GMT 2
Take your time, take your time
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 22, 2005 22:16:08 GMT 2
I was very lonely tonight, so I could do the translation right away. Here it is:
The typical scandinavian folk metal basis of most bands using this genre consists of Black/ Death Metal passages, improved with folkloristic elements. Additional to this will be used typical humppa rhythms, which make the music sound happy and invide you for partying. But in comparison to typical folk-metal-representative-bands like finnish band Finntroll, Korpiklaani use not that much black-metal-like parts in the music. The singing of singer and guitarist Jonne Järvela is not really clear, but therefor much more melodic than what we know from other bands. And the folk parts are much more dominating (mainly traditional finnish melodies, played with flute, violine and akkordeon). But some parts of the record contain some thrash metal elements. (tracklist….) The band members (who by the way live inside the finnish forests) are inspired by their natural environment. That`s where songtitles like “Spirit of the forest”, “Native land” or “Old tale” come from. A good example for the mentioned humppa rhythms we´ll find already in the song “Cottages and saunas”. There are a lot of violin sounds following that Polka-like rhythm in a fast tempo, and if you thought, that`s fast, then you`ll get even more exited by hearing the even faster “Journey man”. Here you find many happy violins in furious speed, mixed with the rough singing of Jonne. But therefor the following songs are more slow, and “Pine woods” is the first all-instrumental track. You hear a nice flute solo in the beginning, being followed by interesting guitar sounds later on. There`s also a percussion solo after the first part of the song, followed by more guitar melodies, leading to the final. “Native land” is a musical masterpiece with a very melancholic but very strange singing, who really sometimes sounds opposite to the rest of the music and really hurts the ears sometimes. But the pain will be sothed by a a nice instrumental part with accordeon sounds. The crowning of the CD is the very calm finnish ballad “Kadet Siipinä” with a lot of gentle flute sounds and lulling singing. At the end stays a very good impression of the whole CD. By the instrumental pieces “Pine woods” and “Ryyppäjäiset” and the ballad “Kadet Siipinä” the album gets a lot of variety and the strong humppa-folk-metal-tracks will not get to mighty. All in all a good CD of an independend band, who doesn`t let the success of other comparable bands influence them to change their music into the same direction, but who only do it, how THEY are doing it best.
(P.S. "Polka" is a german style of folk-music... for those who didn`t know it.)
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 22, 2005 23:59:57 GMT 2
just for the record - polka is Polish folk music - at least in original (Germans... think they own everything... just like the nonsense about "indo-germanic" (as they call it) language group... tsk tsk tsk... their national anthem speaks for itself) ;D
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Post by Jonne on Jan 23, 2005 0:17:02 GMT 2
I was very lonely tonight, so I could do the translation right away. Here it is: The typical scandinavian folk metal basis of most bands using this genre consists of Black/ Death Metal passages, improved with folkloristic elements. Additional to this will be used typical humppa rhythms, which make the music sound happy and invide you for partying. But in comparison to typical folk-metal-representative-bands like finnish band Finntroll, Korpiklaani use not that much black-metal-like parts in the music. The singing of singer and guitarist Jonne Järvela is not really clear, but therefor much more melodic than what we know from other bands. And the folk parts are much more dominating (mainly traditional finnish melodies, played with flute, violine and akkordeon). But some parts of the record contain some thrash metal elements. (tracklist….) The band members (who by the way live inside the finnish forests) are inspired by their natural environment. That`s where songtitles like “Spirit of the forest”, “Native land” or “Old tale” come from. A good example for the mentioned humppa rhythms we´ll find already in the song “Cottages and saunas”. There are a lot of violin sounds following that Polka-like rhythm in a fast tempo, and if you thought, that`s fast, then you`ll get even more exited by hearing the even faster “Journey man”. Here you find many happy violins in furious speed, mixed with the rough singing of Jonne. But therefor the following songs are more slow, and “Pine woods” is the first all-instrumental track. You hear a nice flute solo in the beginning, being followed by interesting guitar sounds later on. There`s also a percussion solo after the first part of the song, followed by more guitar melodies, leading to the final. “Native land” is a musical masterpiece with a very melancholic but very strange singing, who really sometimes sounds opposite to the rest of the music and really hurts the ears sometimes. But the pain will be sothed by a a nice instrumental part with accordeon sounds. The crowning of the CD is the very calm finnish ballad “Kadet Siipinä” with a lot of gentle flute sounds and lulling singing. At the end stays a very good impression of the whole CD. By the instrumental pieces “Pine woods” and “Ryyppäjäiset” and the ballad “Kadet Siipinä” the album gets a lot of variety and the strong humppa-folk-metal-tracks will not get to mighty. All in all a good CD of an independend band, who doesn`t let the success of other comparable bands influence them to change their music into the same direction, but who only do it, how THEY are doing it best. (P.S. "Polka" is a german style of folk-music... for those who didn`t know it.) Thanks ! You are very nice and diligent.
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Post by Hittavainen on Jan 23, 2005 3:01:04 GMT 2
Korpiklaani use not that much black-metal-like parts in the music. So far as I understand what can be counted as "black metal-like", I can't actually distinguish ANY black metal-like parts at all in the album.
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