Events
They balance high integrity with a disarming openness that attracts a loyal audience, regardless of whether they play at a sold-out Kulturhuset in Stockholm or at a garden café in Ostrobothnia. Their songs depict contemporary times and history on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia and capture a directness and honesty that feels unusual in our time. The albums – “Släkt med Lotta Svärd”, “Veneziansk afton” and “Möte med skogsgardisterna” – can be seen as modern classics born in a Swedish-Finnish context.
Recently, the new studio album Man blåser bort was released, which Mattias Björkas describes as follows:
"Many of us are disappointed in a lot of things, and we deal with it in different ways. Some crawl back into their shells and stay there for the rest of our lives, others attack friends and acquaintances. You can sink into the worst kind of backwardness, or into substances. Man blåser bort is disappointment as an atmosphere, the dawning collective suspicion that there will be nothing more. It takes place in a square that these days seems to be too big. The wind is directed from the highway straight into the square. There it is absorbed by three friends who are sitting there because they need each other in the middle of life."
Vasas flora och fauna
Since their debut album in 2015, Vasa's Flora and Fauna have taken a special place in the music scene. The Finnish-Swedish indie pop trio, Mattias Björkas, Tina Kärkinen and Daniel Ventus, have a unique sound and combine razor-sharp social observations with everyday recognition.They balance high integrity with a disarming openness that attracts a loyal audience, regardless of whether they play at a sold-out Kulturhuset in Stockholm or at a garden café in Ostrobothnia. Their songs depict contemporary times and history on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia and capture a directness and honesty that feels unusual in our time. The albums – “Släkt med Lotta Svärd”, “Veneziansk afton” and “Möte med skogsgardisterna” – can be seen as modern classics born in a Swedish-Finnish context.
Recently, the new studio album Man blåser bort was released, which Mattias Björkas describes as follows:
"Many of us are disappointed in a lot of things, and we deal with it in different ways. Some crawl back into their shells and stay there for the rest of our lives, others attack friends and acquaintances. You can sink into the worst kind of backwardness, or into substances. Man blåser bort is disappointment as an atmosphere, the dawning collective suspicion that there will be nothing more. It takes place in a square that these days seems to be too big. The wind is directed from the highway straight into the square. There it is absorbed by three friends who are sitting there because they need each other in the middle of life."
Dates
Friday 24 Jan 19:30 - 20:30
