Ensemble Gamut! is a fresh, experimental collective of early music and folk music specialists, who create their unique sound by combining, and daringly rearranging, elements from medieval music and Finnish folk songs with improvisation and electronic soundscapes. In this late-night concert, ‘MI’ explores the boundary between the living and the non-living, asking what is alive and what has already faded into extinction. Medieval flower-themed chant repertoire blends with Aino Peltomaa’s own compositions and texts on Arctic endangered flowers. These are interwoven with a rich musical soundscape that combines voice, harp, bells, Karelian bowed lyres, medieval blockflutes, and electronic textures.

“From rough-spun elemental numbers to exquisitely beautiful voice-and-harp, the range and depth here is compelling. The early literary sources that hark back to an ancient time may be obscure, yet the sense of enduring human truths and emotions is clear.”
Chris Wheatley / Songlines (01.03.2023)