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The album Forest of a Thousand Songs by Peter Phippen & Arja Kastinen is now available also on BandCamp. Some of the other released albums will probably be also added in BandCamp in the near future.

The events and lessons of the Runoi’s Kantele Camp can be followed online on the camp’s youtube-channel.  The events are free and the lessons are available via paid links. Live streaming by Jarmo Romppanen from Videotuotanto Vauhtiluiska Oy. Some events may be published retrospectively. The details of each stream will be informed closer to the […]

Teppana Jänis – Album release February 28, 2021 (AANIA-37). The transcriptions are published earlier in the book “KIZAVIRZI karjalaisesta kanteleperinteestä 1900-luvun alussa”. With the book the CD comes for free. The digital album can be found, for example, at Spotify. This is the very first audio release from Teppana Jänis (1850–1921). The original recordings were […]

Welcome to participate the unique kantele camp in the landscapes of the runosingers of Ilomantsi in June 16-20, 2021! This special workshop gives you the tools to combine the ancient runosong and the kantele with creative music making. You will be familiarized with the two most famous runosingers of Ilomantsi, Simana Sissonen and Mateli Kuivalatar, […]

Arja’s analysis of the exploratory six-hour improvisation with the EEG-measurement in 2017 is now published at the Research Catalogue site. The analysis is available for download on the Research tab. Abstract Creativity is seen as a fundamental human capacity which also seems to be very sensitive in escaping scientifically controlled conditions. During the last decades, […]