Kalevala

Kalevala is the name of six different bands: 1)Kalevala was a finnish rock band formed in 1969. During the first years the music was more of straightforward rock but after drummer Remu Aaltonen and guitarist Albert J?rvinen left the band to form their own band Hurriganes, the music became more progressive. 2)Kalevala (????????) is a folk metal band from Russia that formed in 2007 Kseniya - vocal, lyrics Nikita Andriyanov - guitar, music Aleksandr "Olen' " Oleynikov - accordion

1)Kalevala was a finnish rock band formed in 1969. During the first years the music was more of straightforward rock but after drummer Remu Aaltonen and guitarist Albert J?rvinen left the band to form their own band Hurriganes, the music became more progressive.


2)Kalevala (????????) is a folk metal band from Russia that formed in 2007

Kseniya - vocal, lyrics
Nikita Andriyanov - guitar, music
Aleksandr "Olen' " Oleynikov - accordion
Ivan - bass
Kirill "Kesha" Perov - drums

Discography :

"Kudel' Belosnezhnogo L'na" ( 2008) - Sound Age Production
"Kolokol'chik" (single 2009)
"Cookushkiny Deti" (2009) - Metalism Records
"Tausen-rada" (single 2010)
"Vedma" ( 2010) - - Sound Age Production

?Kalevala? was established in spring 2007, after Ksenya?s leaving Russian group ?Nevid?.
On the 15th of April,2007 after performance in Penza, it was clear, that Ksenya's and Lesyar's staying in ?Nevid? was impossible, so there, in Penza, Ksenya had a talk about creation joint project with guitarist Nikita, as he had some folk music material which was insufficiently rigid for Nevid, but quite interesting. ?Nevid? returned home without Ksenya, as she had left the city by train before.
The time had passed and Ksenia had first lyrics for Nikita's music :?Darling?, ?River to river? and ?Goy, Dear! ?etc. at the same time they were searching for musicians for the band.

Nikita invited his bosom-friend - accordionist Olen' (Deer) with whom he had been participated in the Russian folk orchestra at music school. Ksenya made an acquaintance with Bumblebee ? a bass player and vocalist of ?Rarog? and he willingly took an invitation to play with the unnamed for that time folk-metal band.

The place at the drums was taken by Bumblebee's acquaintance - Mark, the drummer of the band "Krakatau", but it was only for one jam, on the 2nd his place took Vasiliy from trash-death band "Reborn in chaos". So the structure was finally approved and since July 2007 constant jams have started.
The name of the band wasn't chosen accidentally.
First of all Ksenya's Finnish nature. The 2nd thing is that All songs were written under the influence of Finnish folklore music and famous Finnish bands such as "Korpiklaani", "Finntroll", etc. though the influence of Russian national folklore is great too. And The third, Bumblebee had a T-shirt which bore an inscription ?Kalevala", which gave no rest for all band's members. So, they decided to name The band "Kalevala", but naturally it spelled in Russian like ??????????.
So the group was ready to appear before the general public on the 27th of September, 2007 and demo of 2 songs were recorded.

"Goy,dear" (music -Nikita/lyrics - Kseniya)
"The cowboy" (music Nikita/lyrics A. Ahmatova)

The Demo made a success on the internet and many affirmative replies. At the same time There wasn?t deserved substitute in Nevid, therefore Nikita decided to leave the band and concentrated on "Kalevala".

On the 5th of October there was The first concert, and on the 5th of April the band released their Album ?Tow of Snow-white Flax? in Russian Rock club ?Relax?


3)Kalevala is an 80's heavy metal band from Brazil that formed in 1987.


4)Kalevala is a folk metal band formed in the North East of England in 2008


5)Kalevala is a folk rock/metal band from Italy that formed in 2006.

6) Kalevala is a Macedonian band. Until Last.fm sorts its problem with multiple bands sharing a name, please re-tag as Kalevala (MK).

Members:
Jasna Nikolovska Ovcarovska - singer;
Vladimir Ovcarovski - guitar;
Zoran Pavloski - double bass;
Goran Spasevski - rhythm guitar, djembe;
and
Nikolas Come - clarinet;

Influences:
Loreena McKennitt, Dulce Pontes, Mariza, Amalia Rodrigues, Edith Piaf, Mari Boine, ...


7) Kalevala is one of The KLF projects from their finland tournee.

Finnish label invented by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to release a series of 7" singles inspired by their novel Bad Wisdom. Failing to find any real Lapp punk or Arctic soul acts like the ones they described in the book, Bill & Z invented the acts and hired musicians and singers in Helsinki to record the songs.

Only six singles were released, limited to 500 copies each. The tracks came from the unreleased Bad Wisdom soundtrack album, Huono Viisaus, which also included a cover of Immigrant Song by ice bikers Molten Rock and songs by Kristina Bruuk and Gormenghast.