KHETA HOTEM
The
Ultimate Experience of Shamanistic Komutian Music
KHETA HOTEM is:
Tero Nieminen: didgeridoo & snake flute &
violin & balian frog & miscellaneous
Keijo Virtanen: percussion, throaty voices & miscellaneous
Jarmo Saarti: percussion, string-instruments, winds, human sounds &
miscellaneous
Anssi Kukkonen: synthesized voices
Hannu Pelkonen: accordion, percussion, stringed instruments, noises, winds
& miscellaneous
Some tribes wandered trough Siberia to
Finland in about 1000 BC. They were our ancestors and we are proud
in continuing the everlasting Komutian
musical tradition. The ancient, hypnotic elements of the Komutian music
have been restored here as faithfully to
the original ways of presenting the music as possible.
that still sound modern and eternal. The
basic principle behind Komutian music still is, that there exist no separate
songs; instead the musicians enter the
world of music (known as Santamaki) and act as mediators, bringing the
sounds and voices from the world of music
into our own everyday existence. Some of the songs have their origin
in the water- rituals of the Komuts',
although modern audiences may experience them as avant-garde.
listener's mind and body. Our modern
version of the Komutian music uses the traditional Komutian instruments
as well as modern instruments.
(Platanov: Sovetskaja
Entsiklopaedia Russiiski Tseloveni, 1971):
water throughout the year, the
water-ritual was carried out during this day in order to make peace with
their gods and ensure water supplies. The
tribes' women gathered all the water they could find into small
tin-cups; from which it was sprinkled onto
great rocks nearby the villages they lived. Thus it was believed
that great rock gods would be generous in
providing the water needed for the everyday living throughout
the coming year. These cups were kept in
big wooden cupboards which were dragged in the tundra during
the nomadic phases of the tribe.
Contact us: khetahotem(at)luukku.com