Mari Boine Group – Live at JazzBaltica 1997 is a powerful meeting of Sámi musical tradition, jazz, folk and rock. Boine’s commanding voice moves from intimate, meditative passages to fierce rhythmic peaks, supported by hypnotic percussion and atmospheric instrumentation. The performance feels spiritual, urgent and deeply expressive, transforming the festival stage into an intense celebration of identity, nature and musical freedom.
The Sámi people (also spelled Sami or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.
The group SOLJU, formed by Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter Hildá Länsman, combines their heritage of northern Sámi language and traditional chant, known as yoik, with a desire for new and innovative music.
Wimme Saari is one of the best known Sami yoikers from Finland. He combines traditional Sami singing with his own improvisations, usually to a techno-ambient accompaniment by members of Finnish electronic group RinneRadio.
Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that of 86-year-old Sara and 7-year-old Mihka - both residing in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra, through the drastic change of the arctic seasons and the passage from the long winter’s darkness to the never-ending light of the summer season.
Esbjörn Svensson Trio & Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Orchestra feat. Pat Metheny – Live at JazzBaltica 2003 brings together modern European jazz, orchestral depth and Metheny’s lyrical guitar voice.
Popular movie trailers from 1997
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1997:
Grieving the death of his girlfriend, Ashok visits his pal Hemanth. But the journey of healing takes a detour when Ashok begins to fall for Hemanth's devoted wife, Veena, who reminds Ashok of his lost love.
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
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