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| | Jord, Vaylan Virrassa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Vaylan Virassa means "in the flow of the river." The river here is the Torne, at the border between Finland and Sweden, the zipper in the jeans of Scandinavia that extends north from the top of the Gulf Of Bothnia until it turns as a pocket through deep reindeer country towards Kiruna and Norway. |
 | | Torne is Jan Johansson on accordion and bass, Gun Olofsson on guitar, flute, and percussion, Susanne Rantatalo on percussion, and Erling Fredriksson on bass, harp, and flute. |
 | | Some of the tracks are traditional, apparently different versions of common Finnish songs, and others are composed by the band in a traditional way; Jord mixes the Russian-influenced traditional sound, similar to what has come to America with Finnish immigration, with a varying amount of contemporary arrangement. |
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