Vasa's Flora & Fauna

Since the debut album in 2015, Vasa's Flora och Fauna has taken a special place in music life. The Ostrobothnian trio with Mattias Björkas, Tina Kärkinen and Daniel Ventus has a distinctive sound and combines razor-sharp social considerations with everyday recognition. The listenership is large and loyal and we are happy to finally present them at the Storytelling Festival!

Their songs tell us something about the present and about history on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia - about life now and then, and by extension also something about ourselves. The world of Vasa's Flora and Fauna feels just like that: created in the pull between narrator and receiver, with a directness that feels unusual in our time.

Just recently, the new studio album "Man blåser bort" was released, which Mattias Björkas describes as follows: "There are many of us who are disappointed in many things, and we deal with it in different ways. Some crawl back into their shell and remain there for the rest of their lives, others go on the attack against friends and acquaintances. You can sink into the worst kind of backwardness, or into substances. "Man blows away" is the disappointment as an atmosphere, the dawning collective suspicion that there will be nothing more. It takes place in a square that these days seems too big. The wind is directed from the motorway straight into the square. There it is absorbed by three friends who sit there because they need each other in the middle of life.”