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About "Narinkka: Fonk - Finnish cartoon klezmer"
This neoklezmer piece is based on a story:
Miomir Fonk was born into an artistic family in Kosovo, but from an early age he was mainly interested in cars. After moving to Belgrade and beginning to train as a car mechanic, Miomir also found kindred spirits in Belgrade punk circles.
When the outbreak of civil war in the early 1990s threatens violence-hating Miomir, he decides to leave and heads for Finland, where he also has friends from punk circles in Ylistaro. When Miomir arrives in Finland, he has no money left, so he has to hitchhike to Ostrobothnia.
Then, to the north of Tampere, Miomir thumbs a ride from former Finnish rally driver Jorma Siironen. The men begin talking right away, in English rally slang, naturally about cars. Now Siironen wants to show what "Flying Finn" means, and turns his car onto a crooked back road.
Everything would have gone well if a farmer at Kinnula had not decided to take out his tractor that evening and carry some sludge to his field.
Jorma Siironen tries a virtuoso evasive manoeuver, but the front wheel bites the bank at the side of the road.
Then it takes off.
The car swerves onto the field, turns over four times, but somehow stops the right way up on the edge of a small stream. Miomir opens his eyes; he can hear only a quiet hiss, and the murmer of the stream. The roll bars and rally seat belts on Siironen's car have absorbed the impact and Miomir feels intact.
"Oops," says Siironen, offering a cigarette and lighting one himself. His hands are shaking, but barely enough to notice. They smoke.
After a long silence Siironen asks only:
"Do you want to work in my garage?"
So Miomir starts work the following Monday at Siironen's service station in Ylistaro.
A year later, he is a successful driver in open class demolition derbies and plays in an Ylistaro punk band called Kilju (meaning a special Finnish sugar-wine). He is even going out with Siironen's daughter.
***
In this cartoon music piece the rhythm is enhanced, among other things, by a 50-year-old milk churn, a rusty garden rake, a 100-year-old prepared zither, and, of course, a darbuka.
Accordion is here played by the marvelous Harri Kuusijärvi, otherwise current Narinkka guys.
Miomir Fonk was born into an artistic family in Kosovo, but from an early age he was mainly interested in cars. After moving to Belgrade and beginning to train as a car mechanic, Miomir also found kindred spirits in Belgrade punk circles.
When the outbreak of civil war in the early 1990s threatens violence-hating Miomir, he decides to leave and heads for Finland, where he also has friends from punk circles in Ylistaro. When Miomir arrives in Finland, he has no money left, so he has to hitchhike to Ostrobothnia.
Then, to the north of Tampere, Miomir thumbs a ride from former Finnish rally driver Jorma Siironen. The men begin talking right away, in English rally slang, naturally about cars. Now Siironen wants to show what "Flying Finn" means, and turns his car onto a crooked back road.
Everything would have gone well if a farmer at Kinnula had not decided to take out his tractor that evening and carry some sludge to his field.
Jorma Siironen tries a virtuoso evasive manoeuver, but the front wheel bites the bank at the side of the road.
Then it takes off.
The car swerves onto the field, turns over four times, but somehow stops the right way up on the edge of a small stream. Miomir opens his eyes; he can hear only a quiet hiss, and the murmer of the stream. The roll bars and rally seat belts on Siironen's car have absorbed the impact and Miomir feels intact.
"Oops," says Siironen, offering a cigarette and lighting one himself. His hands are shaking, but barely enough to notice. They smoke.
After a long silence Siironen asks only:
"Do you want to work in my garage?"
So Miomir starts work the following Monday at Siironen's service station in Ylistaro.
A year later, he is a successful driver in open class demolition derbies and plays in an Ylistaro punk band called Kilju (meaning a special Finnish sugar-wine). He is even going out with Siironen's daughter.
***
In this cartoon music piece the rhythm is enhanced, among other things, by a 50-year-old milk churn, a rusty garden rake, a 100-year-old prepared zither, and, of course, a darbuka.
Accordion is here played by the marvelous Harri Kuusijärvi, otherwise current Narinkka guys.
