"This is a stunning début that serves as textbook study in how to keep one’s own tradition alive in today’s urban and multicultural world."

"The group dextrously takes up some of the most worn classics of Finnish folk music [- -] and brings up a completely new and compelling aspect....

"This trio has once again produced a visionary album with a great deal of variety. The swing is often infectious – one longs to dance at...

"Twenty years, ten albums, tours around the world, awards and nominations at home and rave reviews abroad: Frigg can justly be described as one of the...

"The tunes are close to traditional danceable folk music (from different regions) but always with personal twists and turns."

"Mäntyjärvi makes such full use of the potential of the choral sound and the registers of the human voice in his harmonies that the colours begin...

"With non-pitched percussion instruments in particular, Ferchen builds up an incredible intensity based not only on rhythm but also on bright and surprising colours."

"Sebastian Hilli’s 'confluence / divergence', a 30-minute work for solo guitar and small ensemble sweeps the listener straight into a breath-taking flow of imaginative sounds, produced...

"Auvinen’s finest talent is in the chillingly clear musical images that emerge from the pressurised fury."