Biography

Vuk (pronounced “Vook”) is a Finnish-American artist based in Helsinki and New York. She creates lush, mysterious sonic tapestries and organic, bare-bones chamber music from a pump organ, autoharp, multi-layered voodoo percussion and, most recently, Indonesian gamelan instruments. Live she is backed by a band including Johanna Tarkkanen on keyboards, Juho Alajuuma on percussion, autoharp and guitar, and Janne Lastumäki on drums.

Her latest album, “The Plains” (Pyramid, 2009) won her rave reviews in Finland and abroad, and helped her tour extensively in Europe and the U.S., notably as the hand-picked opening act for Fever Ray’s 2009 U.S. tour. She has also shared the bill with other kindred spirits such as Owen Pallett, Dirty Projectors (of which she is also a former member), Swans, Tamaryn and Efterklang.

She is currently finishing up a “Doppelgänger” studio live abum of songs from “The Plains” titled “The Plains, Wide Open, Alive,” and preparing to record her third album under the working title “Year of The Gourd.”