Oi Dai
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Oi Dai is Värttinä
's 3rd album
, and the first after they re-formed in 1990 after losing many members. It was released in 1991 in Finland
by Spirit/Polygram. It was a great success, and led to Värttinä touring throughout Europe
. In 1994, it was released in the United States
by Xenophile Records
. It was later re-released in the US by NorthSide
.
Värttinä
Värttinä is a Finnish folk music band which was started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen back in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band since then...
's 3rd album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, and the first after they re-formed in 1990 after losing many members. It was released in 1991 in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
by Spirit/Polygram. It was a great success, and led to Värttinä touring throughout Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. In 1994, it was released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
by Xenophile Records
Xenophile Records
Xenophile Records is a Nashville, Tennessee based sublabel of Green Linnet Records that specializes in world music from Madagascar, Nigeria, Haiti and other countries. The label was started in 1992 in Danbury, Connecticut by Wendy Newton as a subsidiary of Green Linnet. In 2006, Newton sold Green...
. It was later re-released in the US by NorthSide
NorthSide
NorthSide is record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that specializes in Nordic roots music. It is associated with Omnium Recordings and East Side Digital...
.
Track listing
- "Marilaulu" (traditional, arranged by Värttinä) – 2:08
- "Mie oon musta" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:17
- "Viikon vaivane" (traditional/S. Kaasinen, arr. Värttinä) – 4:23
- "Kamaritski" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:15
- "Miinan laulu" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 3:13
- "Ukko lumi" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:09
- "Vot vot ja niin niin" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:41
- "Tupa täynnä tuppasuita" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:34
- "Oi dai" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 3:43
- "Tantsukolena" (trad., arr. Värttinä) – 2:07
- "Kiiriminna" – 2:43
- "Yks on huoli" (traditional/S. Kaasinen, arr. Värttinä) – 4:07
Personnel
- Mari Kaasinen - vocals
- Sari KaasinenSari KaasinenSari Johanna Kaasinen is a Finnish singer. Together with her sister she began a Finnish folk music band called Värttinä....
- vocals, kanteleKanteleA kantele or kannel is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland, Estonia, and Karelia. It is related to the Russian gusli, the Latvian kokle and the Lithuanian kanklės. Together these instruments make up the family known as Baltic psalteries...
, 2-row accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.... - Kirsi Kähkönen - vocals
- Sirpa Reiman - vocals
- Minna Rautiainen - vocals
- Christer Hackman - percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Janne Lappalainen - wind instruments
- Tom Nyman - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Riitta Potinoja - accordion
- Kari Reiman - fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- Tommi Viksten - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, mandolaMandolaThe mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...