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Niillas Holmberg & Pauli Lyytinen: Naarattu laulu

  • The Other Sound / SUN 16.8.

Niilas Holmberg & Pauli Lyytinen released their debut album in October 2025 on Eclipse Music. Naarattu laulu is a meeting of Sámi poetry, joiku, and spoken word with saxophone and electronics.

Holmberg is a Sámi poet and multidisciplinary artist; Lyytinen an Emma Award-winning saxophonist and composer known for restless, boundary-crossing work. Their collaboration, which began in 2021 and has since taken them to stages across Finland, Germany, Italy, and Norway, is built on channelling, improvisation, and deep mutual listening. Naarattu laulu is not a product but a verb, art not as catch but as act, a net woven together to draw something ancient from the misty water.