Santtu Karhu | pt
There are two bands named Karhu
1) Avant-Garde/ Electronica Band
2) Metal band from the UK
1) kARHu is the project of Niklas Klügel / lodsb (producer) and the guitarist Haris Durakovic, both from Munich / Germany.
Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword is their second release (2008) after the "seven/sixteen" E.P. 2007 on jamendo.de
homepage: http://www.karhumusic.org/
2) In 2006 forming band members Joseph Parry and Oliver Davis-Gower met in college and formed a band under the guise of Sijkmotiv3. After writing numerous E.P's and 2 full length (unreleased) albums the duo struggled on for 5 years as a pair until...
In 1987, the Finnish press of Soviet-Karelia wrote about a young guy who was becoming popular on the underground scene of Petrozavodsk. Santtu Karhu (alias Aleksandr Medvedev) was raised by his grandmother in the old Karelian ways - despite Soviet oppression -, before becoming a student in literature and then the first rock singer in the world using Karelian language with the lyrics of his songs. This was his own political stand. Karelians number about 75,000 in Russia.
It took some more years before Santtu's band, Talvisovat (Winter Clothes), had gigs outside Russia and started making records. They found a...
