Setonic Langenu in 13 pictures

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By the way, 4/5 of the members of Langenu performed at drummer Koljat’s wedding in Kalatsova in 2018 under the name Super Hot Koolina Band.


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LUHAMAA NULK: Luhamaa, the southernmost state of Setomaa, offers Langenu members activities when they’re not hatching up something sinister between the yellow walls of the Pergerus rehearsal room. Here they have done science, participated in the Seto Kingdom Days, sometimes crossed the Control Line, and explored all kinds of land and waterways. According to the memoirs of the drummer Koljat, it was in the woods near Leimani on the Pskov-Riga road that he may have invented the words to one of Langenu’s songs – probably “Kolloid” – in the summer of 2010.
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As far as Obinitsa is concerned, Langenu’s guitarist 1695 wears a Seto shirt made by the local master Margit Mehilane. The sandstone outcrop of Mokornulk looms behind 1695 and Koljat in their interview with Warhorn Records about the EP “Setooniq”.

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The nearby Koidula-Kunichina Gora checkpoint has been a vexing bottleneck for many who have tried to maintain links with their ancestral lands on the other side. Elsewhere, the cutting wire is an obstacle ahead. It is perhaps from there that Langenu’s 21 June concert programme includes the song ‘Neelates lõiketraati’ (‘Swallowing the cutting wire’).

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SAATSERINNA NULK: In ancient times, the Saatse collection centre of agricultural goods was once the golden place where the grandparents of 3/5 of the members of the Langenu worked. Ages later, about 15 years ago, 1695 toyed with the idea of opening a dark alternative music club in the warehouse of the old collection centre. Alongside a comprehensive programme, the club even had a name: ‘Saaste’ (‘Pollution’).
The plan is still in the air today…

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It is also still an unanswered mystery as to whether Arhitekt was once bitten by a snake while mushrooming in the Sabelina forest or whether it was the other way round.
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TSÄTSKI NULK: Langenu has quite a few things in common with Tsätski. Fen, who is better known in metal circles for his work with Swarn, Pedigree, Howl and others, played guitar in Langenu in 2018-2019. His great-grandmother, the famous folk singer Veera Pähnapuu, was from the village of Põrstõ behind the barbed wire. Both the ancestor’s and descendant’s sounds have been recorded on vinyl and cassette tape, so the generational links are clear here.

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TOWN OF PETSERI: One cannot underestimate the influence of the capital of Setomaa, now under foreign rule, on the development of Langenu and its members. In the Estonian School of Petseri, Arhitekt once acquired his first year of wisdom, the bicycles of the future black metal prophets were constantly whizzing around its streets, and in fact the band’s entire Setonic oeuvre bears the spirit of the city.
The old towers of the Petseri Monastery have guided Koljat’s thinking when writing the song ‘Tornide tipus’ (‘At the Top of the Towers’), which was released on the 2016 album ‘Need, kes näevad imesid’ (‘Those Who See Wonders’).

