View Full Version : Help me identify this (Finnish?) band
mittu
11-19-2006, 06:47 PM
I am having trouble remembering the name of a band, I think they are from Finland though they could be from Sweden/Norway/Iceland. The type of music is hard to describe but from what I recall it involved a quartet with no orchestra that play the music with very "breathy" sounds and a lead woman who sang. From what I recall they were something of an internet phenomenon sometime ago and the name is something along the lines of Laikalu (this is how I remember the name and could be very far from reality).
Anyone have any idea who I am thinking of?
Antonius Block
11-19-2006, 08:29 PM
Loituma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loituma)?
A video of them siniging their biggest hit, "Leva's Polka", is here (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1738842995641330414).
There was a flash video of a girl twirling a leek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loituma_Girl) that did the rounds of the Internet earlier this year, using a semi-nonsense version of "Leva's Polka".
Peter Morris
11-19-2006, 09:11 PM
A video of them siniging their biggest hit, "Leva's Polka", is here (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1738842995641330414).
Sounds suspiciously like the theme song from Follyfoot.
http://follyfoot-tv.co.uk/episodes/themesong.html
Any known connection?
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