Finnish Music

I've been looking to purchase the CD, Memento Mori by Mariska.  She's one of my favorite Finnish singers and I have two of her other CDs through http://www.recordshopx.com/finnish/, but this one appears to be very scarce on the Net.  Mariska is into her second decade of making music, but I just discovered her, and Finnish music in general, last year.  What spurred me to look into it, I don't remember, but I ended up watching Finnish music videos on YouTube and am now a fan of several artists, including Jenni Vartiainen, Chisu, Laura Närhi, Cheek, Samuli Edelmann, and several others.  Mariska's Toisen Sanoen CD has stayed in my car's CD player for months and I start it up whenever the radio gets annoying with too many commercials, repetitive news, or bad songs.  That's quite often, unfortunately.  Mariska is a singer-songwriter whose albums could be classified as rap or hip-hop, although more recently she has switched genres to music that she calls punk jazz.  Based on the reviews, people like her lyrics, but I don't understand Finnish yet, so I just enjoy the music.

So anyway, after failing in my search for the Memento Mori CD, came upon the whole album on Rdio.com (pronounced "ar'-dee-o).  Unfortunately, the songs were unavailable in the US, so I tried using TunnelBear to change my IP address to a different country and found that it's available in Australia.  After all that, I'm enjoying Memento Mori  on my iMac.  Evidently, Rdio.com works on mobile devices, so maybe I'll try that later on.  Meanwhile, I give this album a thumbs up.

Here are a few Finnish songs on YouTube that I've enjoyed.  Maybe you will too.

Laura Närhi's Hetken Tie on Kevyt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVIjrxDhO0

Mariska & Pahat Sudet's Liekki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6RBNnIseDE

Chisu's Sabotage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsW6BHzrD8

Mariska's Murha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjZX5AH-ZU