Wasel & The Weasels is deeply steeped in American roots music... Some call it old timey, some call it hillbilly, some call it old country or sometimes even pre-blues... The band has transformed age old lyrics written by unknown musicians way way back in time into Finnish adaptations of their own. This is: Roots Music for the Finnish Sisu and Soul...
Our first album was released in Kaustinen Folk Festival 2022.
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We have performed and recorded all the music for Grand Tactician's PC game production The Civil War 1861-1865
Finnish game magazine "Pelit" gives it 88 out of 100
"A brilliant strategy game that contains almost everything and more that comes to mind about the American Civil War."
— Pelit-magazine 8/2021
This is what the 2nd South Carolina String Band has to say about the soundtrack:
You can buy the soundtracks Vol 1 and 2 as downloadable tracks directly from Steam
Wasel & The Weasels was born in 2012 in the legendary jams of restaurant Ankkuri. We we're grooving so hard that we immediately decided to continue, and so we did.
Our music comes from the roots of old American old-time, country and blues, rewritten in Finnish, rearranged and sometimes even recomposed.
The stories tell about old time railways, loggers, miners and hobos, as well as old time addiction to food and drink. But...
As we started with the originals in English, soon we started to worry that the Finnish audience couldn't relate to the many Americanisms in the original songs and that something should be done about that. Anything sung in "American" always sounds cool whatever the words and that would actually prevent some Finns from actually listening to the stories...
That's why I came up with the idea of recreating the essence of the original stories from an entirely Finnish point of view. So, extracting from different sources, versions and variations, and writing my own, what came out was a bunch of completely new songs rooted out of the American tradion but transformed to the Finnish state of mind: Roots Music for the Finnish Sisu and Soul.
—— Wasel, 15.6.2022
Wasel Arar: vocals, mandolin, guitar, spoons
Marja Zilcher: vocals, fiddle
Klaus Hurskainen: clawhammer banjo
Juho Kyyhkynen: guitar
Jani Snellman: upright bass
— Tommi Viksten
(Emma award winning producer,
produced J. Karjalainen, Tuomari Nurmio, Kauko Röyhkä, etc.)
Order your own CD now! Get a Weasels shirt and Weasels tote bag too while your at it! Send your info to wasel ät weasels dot fi and we will send you ordering information. Like us on our Facebook-page and check out our gigs!
8.6.
Rootsinpyhtää Bluegrass, Strömforsin ruukki, rootsinpyhtaa.fi
Tallinmäki 14.15
29.6.
Haapavesi Folk, haapavesifolk.com
Verstas 23.30
6.7.
Kymikantri, kymikantri.com
Pihalava 17.00
12.-13.7.
Kaustinen Folk Festival, kaustinen.net
Perjantai 12.7. Kalliokrouvi 19.45
Perjantai 12.7. Pelimannitalon kahvio 22.15
Lauantai 13.7. Troka 14.00
Lauantai 13.7. Mondo 23.00
myös kera Tyler Two with Steve Rosen
ja tietysti puskasoitoissa koko viikon (watch this space)
17.8.
KaukasEloFolk, kaukaselofolk.fi
Pihalava 19.30