Finnish duo Solju makes joik music accessible to a Western audience. Solju consists of mother Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter Hildá Länsman. With innovative electronic soundscapes, Solju modernizes the traditional music of the Sami or Saami, a nomadic people in Lapland who lived in a vast area in northern Scandinavia. The Saami lived in tents and lived off reindeer herds. Their joik singing is
… one of the oldest musical forms in Europe. The improvisational singing sings of the essence of the landscape, animals or people. Solju's debut album Odda Aigodat won in the The Best International Indigenous Release category at the 2019 Canadian Indigenous Music Awards. This fascinating second album also proudly conveys the vibrant, earthy and colorful character of this extraordinary natural people. (SvdP)more
