Video: A Finnish bhangra band!
OK, this is THE coolest thing I’ve stumbled across on the Internet all week: a Finnish bhangra band!
According to its website, Shava “is guaranteed to be the world’s only Finnish bhangra group.” I can’t argue with that.
I first came across them in an article chronicling their recent appearance on a Finnish TV network. But it turns out they were also featured in a documentary about bhangra music on CBC Radio 2 in August.
Their stuff is insanely catchy, as you can tell from this YouTube video:
My favourite international riff on Indian music is still the “Indo-calypso-jazz” of Trinidad-born Mungal Patasar–his song Tendonitis (Razorshop Remix) is one of the best things on my iPod– but Shava is a close second. Any band that can nickname one of its members “the Finnjabi bad boy” has to be a contender.
You certainly have eclectic taste. Furthermore, congrats on your blog…I like it lots.
Glad you like the blog, Gina–thanks!