Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L

PEKKO KÄPPI & K:H:H:L’s music deals with love, death, Finnish voodoo and archaic grooves. Their minimalistic and straight forward sound has a distinct flavour of pop, layered with colliding rhythms and psychedelic sights. Yet it is sweetly dangerous, like sounds from the Finnish summer swamps with hidden secrets from the past. Traditional lyrics and harshly joyous jouhikko playing butts heads with drones and distortions from the past and future.

Pekko Käppi is a visionary Finnish folk music composer, singer and jouhikko player. His oeuvre revolutionised the standards of playing the ancient Finnish instrument jouhikko, a bowed lyre, by plugging it into an amplifier and various other ass-backwards places. He then incorporated elements from blues and rock and experimental archaic chaos. These melodic sticks and rhythmic stones send shivers down them bones and his singing just might hurt you.

In 2015 Käppi released the album “Sanguis Meus, Mama!”, this time with the band K:H:H:L. The album surfaced in the Finnish album charts and spent two months in World Music Charts Europe. It was also nominated for the Phonofile Nordic Music Prize, which led to a performance at by:Larm in Oslo. The latest album “Matilda” was released at the end of March 2017, again with the K:H:H:L line-up.

Line-up
Pekko Käppi - Bowed lyres, vocals
Tommi Laine - Cigar box guitars, percussion, vocals
Nuutti Vapaavuori - Cigar box bass, vocals

Contact info
Minna Huuskonen
E-mail: minna@minnamurra.fi

Listen to Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L here:
Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L: Mun vereni
Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L on Spotify