IIVANA MIŠUKKA & ARJA KASTINEN - Iivana Mišukka LP Crust The band is comprised of

The band is comprised of Egor Shkutko

the impressions of the day begin to be processed

at the same time as the Celtic harp

Pieces often begin life as a single sound that catches his ear

IIVANA MIŠUKKA & ARJA KASTINEN - Iivana Mišukka LP Crust The band is comprised ofA further volume of Arja Kastinen's eerie amalgamations of 110 year old wax cylinders with her own meticulously transcribed takes, this time focussing in on Armas Otto Visnen's field recordings of kantele player Iivana Miukka (b. 1861 d. 1919). "Iivana Miukka (18611919) was one of the Karelian kantele players recorded by the folk music researcher Armas Otto Visnen on wax cylinders in 1916 and 1917. In the early 20th century, the remote areas of Border