Islaja

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Wikipedia:

Islaja or Merja Kokkonen (born May 19, 1979) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. Besides her solo career, she is a member of free improv and psych folk bands Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä.

She has been compared to an acid folk version of Björk, a female Syd Barrett, and to Nico.

Her music is notably psychedelic and very intimate using a large variety of instruments.

Her solo music is often rather ethnic sounding. African, Middle Eastern and less easily categorized styles can be heard.

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Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia (3CD, Nascente 2011)

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Islaja, 2006

Islaja, 2006

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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 »