Even though the start of the new year is definitely worth celebrating, people can feel melancholic and sad about all the unfulfilled wishes from last year. And that is one of the themes of the annual Darya & Månskensorkestern performance – a group specialising in providing melancholic but melodic dance music from Finland.
Cry out to a stranger’s chest to the saddest music in the world …
Darya & Månskensorkestern has been playing Finnish tango, waltz, beguine, schlager, rautalanka and humpa for almost 20 years. With lyrics about missing, death, unhappy love and broken dreams, the orchestra sails on despite broken sails across grey melancholy seas.
Unrequited love, tearjerking lyrics and languorous melodies in a melancholic musical universe all their own have made Darya & Månskensorkestern the foremost ambassadors of Finnish tango in Sweden.
But the band has also developed the genre with a Swedish-Finnish dimension, with the longing to return to a fairyland that may not exist, and the promise to return that was never fulfilled. The traditional Finnish tango has taken on a new shape as new musical influences such as beguine, psychedelia and steel wire rock have been given more space.
For almost 20 years, Darya & Månskensorkestern has played at venues ranging from retirement homes and Finnish dance nights in the countryside to clubs and hip festivals. Three albums have been released, the most recent in 2017 being the first with original material. The orchestra has also made a number of acclaimed collaborations with artists both with and without a Finnish background. Frida Hyvönen, Markus Krunegård, Anna Maria Espinosa, Iiris Viljanen, Anna Järvinen and David Ritschard are some of the artists who have contributed to the band’s songs.
For the music for the film No Real Finn, the band was awarded the “Jussi” prize, the Finnish equivalent of the Guldbaggen.
For the fifth year in a row (apart from the pandemic year), Darya & the Moonlight Orchestra will return to Fasching on the first weekend in January.
Place: Fasching, Kungsgatan, Stockholm
Price: 225 – 300 SEK
Date: 06. 01. 2023
Time: 19:00
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