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The Norwegian sextet Kaizers Orchestra build cathartic rock songs that borrow heavily through the dirges of Tin Pan Alley and Eastern Western european folk music. Shaped in the past due ’90s in the town of Bergen, the music group includes Jan Ove Ottesen and Geir Zahl on vocals/electric guitar/essential oil …

Originally started one night in the first ’90s for a number of the members from the Finnish alternative rock-band Kumukameli to pass enough time after a show, Eläkeläiset took popular songs and added a normal Finnish humppa (or oompah) element to them, albeit with modern instrumentation. With Onni Varis on …

The Gypsy-tinged quartet DeVotchKa were formed in Denver, CO by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass), and percussionist Shawn Ruler. Supporting music artists rotated in and from the eclectic group’s lineup, adding such diverse noises as strings and bazoukis. Although some defined …

Madrugada had recently been taking part in together for five years prior to the release of the debut EP in 1998. Getting started in the tiny city of Stokmarknes within the north of Norway, they started beneath the name Abbey’s Adoption in 1993, and made a decision to proceed to …

A favorite, politically charged ska-punk clothing from Minsk, Belarus, Lyapis Trubetskoy were founded in 1990 by frontman (and sole regular member) Siarhei Mikhalok. For over 2 decades the music group managed to stability commercial achievement with underground trustworthiness, releasing over twelve studio room albums, amassing an enormous arsenal of video …

An all-female Norwegian quartet whose music design is rooted in both pop/rock and roll and country-folk, Katzenjammer produced their full-length debut in 2008 with Le Pop, an album that was both critically and commercially effective. Founded in 2005 in Oslo, Norway, the quartet is certainly made up of multi-instrumentalists Turid …

The avant-garde Finnish music group Alamaailman Vasarat, which means “the Hammers from the Underworld” in British, create music influenced by Klezmer and other styles of Western european folk music and play it using the ferocity of the punk or metal act. Abandoning main keys generally and guitars altogether, the group …