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The Unbroken Surface of Snow

from The Unbroken Surface of Snow by Andrew Cronshaw

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Comp/arr: Cronshaw/Aleksanyan/Blake/Kurki-Suonio/Trad.

Andrew Cronshaw: zither
Ian Blake: soprano sax, bass clarinet
Tigran Aleksanyan: Armenian duduk
Sanna Kurki-Suonio: vocal

Late in this otherwise instrumental track Sanna Kurki-Suonio sings a runo-song telling of the origin of the world, in which Väinämöinen, laid low by an angry man's arrow, slides from the snow to lie seven years in the sea. His knee becomes the island of Imandra, where a sea-duck builds its nest and lays a golden egg. Väinämöinen stirs, the egg breaks; the yolk becomes the sun, the white the moon, the shell the star-speckled sky and the earth beneath.
The lyrics, in Karelian Finnish, were collected from runo-singer and kantele player Iivana Shemeikka (1843-1911) of Suistamo in Ladoga Karelia. In the traditional way of runolaulu, Sanna makes her own tune as she sings.

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from The Unbroken Surface of Snow, released October 24, 2011
Recorded live at Manor Farm Barn, Suffolk (Sanna's vocal at Cloud Valley)
by Jamie Orchard-Lisle

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Andrew Cronshaw London, UK

Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumentalist and producer, soloist and also leader of the Finnish/Armenian/British band SANS, who also has a long career as a writer on roots musics, particularly those of the Nordic, Baltic, eastern and central European and Iberian regions, for fRoots, The Rough Guide to World Music etc. ... more

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