17 June 2024
Bitoi has a foot in tradition while pushing the boundaries with their instruments and compositions. By combining the natural resonance of the human voice with meditative bass lines, Bitoi achieves a balance between fragility and strength and a tension between the...
17 June 2024
The friends Wakesa, Trabelsi and Suinner take nothing but liberation quite seriously. After being active in the Helsinki club and dancehall scene for ten years, they founded the club U-Haul, with the stated aim of dancing to amapiano, South African house music. The...
17 June 2024
Folk musician, singer-songwriter, and kantele artist Maija Kauhanen is an explosively powerful and versatile one-woman orchestra who has rapidly built a formidable international career. Kauhanen’s art is rooted in the Finnish Karelian tradition, encompassing its...
24 May 2024
The multi-artist and body activist Stina Wollter returns to Urkult with her touching and storytelling music and lyrics. Life and living, darkness and light, the events in between, few people can tell so authentically, compellingly and multifacetedly. “That...
24 May 2024
In 2006, the band that would be named Glesbygd’n picked up their instruments for the first time and started their own musical revolution. With roots deep into the mill of the northern land and a great love for root reggae music, the band channeled their own...
