#Suistamo

[phinnweb]

This is the project I’m currently working on. Premiere 18 July 2023 at Ykspihlaja Festival, Kokkola, Finland. VOD later on (details TBC).

Info:

Captain Aarne Juutilainen (1904-1976), nicknamed "the Terror of Morocco" after his stint in the French Foreign Legion, became the symbol of the Battle of Kollaa in Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. The sniper Simo Häyhä, “the White Death”, was one of Juutilainen’s men. A forthcoming documentary will be an account of Aarne Juutilainen life.

Tuotanto / Produced by: 

Pauli Poranen Production (Kokkola), The Kiljava Institute/Voionmaa Institute (Tampere), The Federation of Education in Central Ostrobothnia & Media Centre LIME (Kokkola) & pHinnWeb/Pispala Noir (Tampere).

Teasers available on YouTube (click “CC” for English subtitles):

Teaser 1

Teaser 2

Teaser 3

[punalippulaiva]

@seksilelulaatikko tagged me to list five song I've been listening to on repeat recently. The problem is, I almost never listen to individual songs on repeat. But what I do... do.... is listen to entire albums or even sometimes an artist's entire back catalogue on repeat. So here's some of those I have been getting into a lot in the past months:

1. Suistamon sähkö - pretty much their entire output, but the first (self-titeled) album in particular. Turns out the combination of eastern Finnish/Karelian traditional folk music and electronic sounds is enough to make me like rapping, one of the things in music I have generally loathed. But apart from the rap bit it's just very me. Electronic stuff, musique concrete touches, drawing from folk music and with lyrics alternating between the nonsense of listing every single house in the Suistamo village to biting critique of capitalism... yeah.

2. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring. Happiness is easy. But it's nice to be reminded of that sometimes.

3. Can - Future Days. Can overall are a very hit and miss for me. Most of their albums have a mixture of gems and utter garbage, but Future Days is just pure gold from start to finish. Not your typical krautrock - not really rock at all - but oh so good. 4. Fripp & Eno - especially No Pussyfooting and Evening Star. More weird proggish stuff from the 70s, except this is more guitar noise ambient. The third album in the same vein (The Equatorial Stars) isn't nearly as good as the two 70s albums.

Hmm, not sure what else I could really put in here without going back to something that happened too long ago to count as "recently" or making me list "oh, then there's this six-hour-long Spotify playlist I tend to default to..."

I usually don't tag anyone in these kinds of things, but since this time there's actually some people whose music rotation does interest me so... @dragon-memes, @perkeleensimpura, @saeva-sava, @cannithebear, @mitamajr, show me what you've got!

[cikkocikko]

Käzipaikkoi, Suistamo. 1900-lugu.

Karelian embroidery, Suistamo. 1900s.

[languagesperkele]

The other day a customer asked me where I'm from because how I speak sounded so ~kotoisa~. Turns out she's lived most of her life in Joensuu and her family is from Suojärvi~Suistamo... 😅

[torillatavataan]

Pirtin ovisuuhun sijoitetut, käsien pesuun tarkoitetut käspaikka ja käsastia Suistamo, 1913

[leregretdestempspasses]

Tepanna Jänis playing kantele, Suistamo, Karelia 1909

[coldthinwolf]

Suistamo, Jalovaara; näkymä kyläkalmistolle. 1935.

[populusfennicapatriam]

Runonlaulaja Iivana Härkönen. Suistamo, 1917. (A. O. Väisänen)

[torillatavataan]

Majatalon emäntä Maria Kuusimäki kehrää värttinällä Suistamon kirkonkylä, 1929

[torillatavataan]

Itkijä Jelena Lukisna Suistamo, 1908

SKVR VII3 loitsut 244. Suistamo.  Salminen  V, n. 2790.  -11. Kirkonkylä. Jelena Lukisna. [Puun loukkaama - Mehiläinen voiteita - Kipusanoja.]  

Puun [loukkaama].

Ilman poiga tierone Otti kuusia jyvie, Seitšemie siemenie; Lähti maita kylvämää, Ilmoja tihuttamaa.

Kylvi suot, kylvi moat, Kazvoi kuuzed kukkaladvad, Kanarvot kukattomat. Jos tyvi pahoin tegee, Ladva mettä keittelöö

Kibijällä voidijoiks, Vammoilla valandehiks. Mehiläine, ilmal lintu, Lennä tuonne, jonne käsken, Pohjan pitkillä merillä.

Kasta siibeis simaa, Sulgas sulaah voih, Voia alla, voia peällä, Kerta keskee sibase, Alla ńuurumattomaks, Keskellä kivuttomaks. Kibutyttö, Tuonen neito, Istuu kibumäellä, Kibuvuoren kukkuralla, Kibuja keräämäs

Kultasehe kuppisehe, Vaskiseh vakkaseh, Yhen sormen mäntävää, Peigalon mahuttavaa.

Kerännyt Väinö Salminen Suistamolla vuonna 1911.

[leregretdestempspasses]

Kantele player Tepanna Jänis, Suistamo, Karelia 1917

[leregretdestempspasses]

Runo-singers with kantele from Suistamo, Karelia ca.1900

[populusfennicapatriam]

At military cemetery. Evacuee father and daughter saying the last goodbye to their fallen brother and son before leaving their home permanently. 1st of August 1944 Suistamo, Finland.

Evakkojen hyvästit kotipaikalleen: Sankarihaudalla. Evakkomatkalle lähtevät isä ja tytär viimeisellä hyvästijättökäynnillä pojan ja veljen sankarihaudalla. Suistamo 1944.08.01

[leregretdestempspasses]

Kantele player Jefim “Jehki” Jänönen, Suistamo, Karelia 1917 (A.O.Väisänen)

[leregretdestempspasses]

Harmonica player Mikko Saveljeff, Suistamo, Finland date unknown