Anti Paalanen / Besh o droM
Friday 4 July at 22.30 | Larris Stage, Scandic

Friday night at Larris is for those who have a taste for the limitless. The artists sharing this evening are breaking musical boundaries and challenging the folk music genre in a fierce way.

Finnish Antti Paalanen is known as the mad accordion player who takes the stage with an explosive mix of traditional Finnish folk music, electronic dance rhythms and raw Siberian throat singing. He's down to the quiet, but he's at his rawest when he hums and screams his way through a soundscape where you feel the rhythm deep down. It is fine perfectionism at its very best - and a rare concert experience.

The starting point for Besh o droM is folk music from Transylvania, Armenia, Bulgaria and Romania, which they mix with elements from Egyptian, Lebanese, Jewish and Greek folk music. Almost like a statement. Music from countries that don't communicate very well together today, but that in their music work together in peace and harmony. The music is both playful and serious, funny and moving, authentic and urban and east and west at the same time.