The Weird Sisters of Finland
By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor
Jonna Karanka, Merja Kokkonen and Laura Naukkarinen are the Macbeth-ian witches of Finland's experimental folk scene. And just as Shakespeare's crones prophesied Macbeth's fate, these magical and maudlin multi-instrumentalists sound like seers and soothsayers of a new hierarchy of music, rising from out of the nature and nurture of everyday life. Freakier than most any folk in the American underground, the trio has developed a musical syntax all their own. As soloists, they perform and record… more »