- Vaudeville
- Balkan
music
- Art rock
- Blues
- Music hall
- Avant-folk
- Cabaret
- Crossover
- Comedy
- Dark folk
Comment: the US-based
imprint Death Roots Syndicate keeps having impact upon me because it
surprises with its twists in its discography. Recently I commented
about an Italian dark folk/neofolk/apocalyptic folk/neoclassical
project L'ira dell'Agnello`s
Coprofonia
(2014). Seuora is a disparate turn because of
coming from Finland and
making music with a tongue-in-cheek attitude because of incorporating
different styles such as vaudeville/music
hall, Gypsy music, and
cabaret with roots-driven
styles as blues, bluegrass, and folk in
an amusing way though involving more murky elements as well (at
34512,
for instance). Indeed, it is a hellish crossover issue of
a musical direction of which the most famous representative is Tom
Waits undoubtedly having its roots both in the Beatniks, 20
th
century beginning Dadaist movement and
delta blues, Romani
culture, and music hall.
However, you could not
underestimate the influence of contemporary and past Finnish
underground music being the most potential and intriguing in the
Scandinavian peninsula (for instance, the so-called forest folk/New
Weird Finland movement,
Erkki Kurenniemi, M.A.
Numminen, Pekka Airaksinen, Keuhkot, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay etc).
Before the quartet was
conceived some members played in such group as Northern
Antarctican Non-Flying Flying Circus where they played a similar sort
of music. Their handwriting implicates to an organic connection
between the storytelling, and a musical backup, between saying yes to
our withering life from one`s egoistic perspective and then revealing
more misanthropic tendencies and appeal towards the darkness and
evil. In a word, the result is highly striking embracing 10
compositions within a span of 33 minutes.
