A double album of the music of Jaan Rand is out! It contains original recordings from 1937 of Jaan Rand’s tunes on jaw harp, kannel and diatonic accordion and modern interpretations of those. Jaan Rand was a well known wedding musician in western part of Estonia, Kirbla.
Musicians playing Jaan’s tunes:
Katariin Raska – jaw harp
Leanne Barbo – kannel
Natali Ponetajev – diatonic accordion
Album is on sale on: https://katariinraska.bandcamp.com/merch
LÜKATA-TÕMMATA, HARGIGA-ROOBIGA
In Western-Estonia, Kirbla, there lived a man called Jaan Rand (1879-1943) who was excellent player of parmupill, kannel and lõõts. Katariin, Leanne Barbo and Natali Ponetajev – each masters of one of the instrument which Jaan was playing, bring the music back to life. The music of Jaan Rand has such an amazing flow and freedom in the structure which makes it so enjoyable to navigate in.
The repertoire consists of two type of dance tunes – labajalgs (estonian old 3-part dance) and polkas and this has been also the main dance repertoire of West Estonia as many other parts of Estonia before the more modern social dances appeared.
Katariin Raska – parmupill
Leanne Barbo – kannel
Natali Ponetajev – lõõts
Photo by Karoliina Kreintaal
CULLE
CULLE was the outcome of the MA project under Norwegian Academy of Music. The aim was to find a way to interpret traditional music with the use of free improvisation and extended playing techniques.
Katariin Raska – soprano sax, torupill, hiiu kannel, vocal
Anna-Liisa Eller – chromatical kannel, electric kannel
Sänni Noormets – violin, hiiu kannel, vocal
Kristin Kuldkepp – double bass
ÄIO
The very first band of Katariin. Formed in Norway in 2012. ÄIO released an album in 2014.
Katariin Raska – torupill, jaw harp, soprano saxophone
Jon Hjellum Brodal – hardanger fiddle
Anders Hefre – bass clarinet, flute
Christian Meaas Svendsen – double bass
singing-songwriting
Sometimes some thoughts or feelings need to find the way out somehow different.