Shamanistic chant meets modern electronics.Wimme Saari is a modern yoik singer; a traditional chant style that has certain elements in common with Native American music, most importantly a reverence for the earth and the elements.

Wimme takes his "free yoik" to a new level. His deeply emotional vocals are the center around which the ambient music floats. Tapani Rinne and Jari Kokkonen, two main musicians from Finnish techno jazz band RinneRadio, and Matti Wallenius on acoustic string instruments, give shape and depth to Wimme's yoik. Fuzzy synthesizers, strings, alto sax, keyboards and animal samples swirl in and around Wimme's yoik creating an eerie, spiritual and atmospheric effect.
 

Press

• "Wimme is a star, no doubt about it, someone whose gift goes beyond genre. ...one of the most perfect fusions yet." ? Rhythm Music
  
  
• "...achingly beautiful, starkly ornamented. This is how modern folk music should sound." ? CMJ (College Media Journal)