Suistamon Sähkö: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

For the second consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2021 for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: three nights, nine bands, and a world of musical traditions hosted by African pop star Angélique Kidjo. Now, we re posting all the sets from our festival as individual Tiny Desk (home) concerts. Bob Boilen, January 27, 2022 Performing from Tampere, Finland s Suistamon Sähkö whips up rambunctious experimental dance music with a primordial force. Cheerfully moving from ethnotechno to hiphop, the group s buzzing synthesizers, rap declarations, and a Sovietmade accordion makes audiences come alive. Suistamon Sähkö s third album, 2021 s Varokaa Hengenvaara (loosely translated: Beware Danger to Life ), is both their most accessible and wildest material to date. It s music engineered (along with their sartorial fabulousness and irresistible dancing) to keep you warm on a froze