Metalmusic for children?

In Finland no question of age! The band Hevisaurus is performing
already for very little metal-heads. The debut album "Jurahevin
kuninkaat", which means "Kings of  Jurassic Metal" peaked No. 5
in the Finnish Charts and was nomitated for the Emma Award 2010.

Last year they released their third album called "Räyh!" where they
worked again with some famous names from the metal-scene.

http://www.lastfm.de/group/Hevisaurus

Metal Music in Finland became socially acceptable since a long
time. It's omnipresent. The music scene in Finland is generally
nostaglic and melancholic, coming from a big influence by the
traditional tunes of Kalevala and Pelimanni music.

Finland is known for their different sub-genres of Metal Music.
There has been some famous exports in the last decades like
HIM, The Rasmus, Apocalyptica, Waltari, Amorphis, Finntroll
or Nightwish. Since Finnland won the Eurovision Songcontest
with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" in the year 2006, everybody
in Europe knows that this country is a Nation of Rock!

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Metal Music is an integral part of the finnish culture and this
explains the success of doing Metal Music for Children. This
lead us back to Hevisaurus. The band was founded 2009 by the
Metal drummer Mirka Rantanen, who played with Thunderstones.

He was inspired by his son who asked him as he looked on a old
albummcover of his father "Did they do this when there were still
dinosaurs?" This was the start of the idea to do a Metal Band for
kids with dinosaurs costumes. They play dressed up as four
dinosaurs and one dragon.

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Their concerts are just one hour in the afternoon and have a
maximum of 85 decibel. After the concerts children can meet
their heroes in a signature session. The lyrics are made so that
children have something to relate with.

In 2011 the band split because of some disagreement with
Sony. Rantanen found with three other members a new band
called Sauruxet. The old singer stayed with the Label under
the old name.

Radio Trilllingo greets all our finnish readers out there with
a "Mano cornuta".

www.hevisaurus.com

Here is the Video  "Räyh!". Take a look!

Hurra, hurra, der Pumuckl ist wieder da!

Pumuckl is 50 years. Happy Birthday little Klabautermann! Pumuckl
the red-haired hero from a german serie called "Meister Eder und
sein Pumuckl" is celebrating his birthday. The character was invented
by Ellis Kaut. They also produced Radio-Plays, Stories, three movies
and a musical with Pumuckl. He is the most popular character in
german children-entertainment for several generations.

Source: pumuckl726orf.jpg

Pumuckl is a little undutiful fella driven by his mood swings and
doing a lot of monkeyshines. He is sometimes like a mischievous
child and from time to time very selfish as well. So no wonder that
children relate to him. The carpenter Meister Eder, an old man living
alone, find one day the little kobold who is stuck on one of his glue
pot. Thus he sees Pumuckl although Klabautermänner are invisible.
From this day on Pumuckl is bonded to stay with him – so say the
Klabauter law. Pumuckl gives him a lot of troubles and is singing
his pesky poetries.

But hey, what the heck is a "Klabautermann"?

We had to do a little research on this. According to some information
sources a Klabautermann is a kind of ship-ghost or a water-kobold.
The vocable is related to an old german word "klabastern" which means
"poltern" or "rumpeln" (to rumble). The word "Poltergeist" is coming
from this and you can see it in the word "Rumpelstilzchen" (in english:
Rumpelstiltskin).

Other sources imply that there is a relation to arab roots: "kalfatern"
or "kalfaten". In French the word is known as "calfater", while English
is using "to caulk" or "to calk". It's an old handcraft to repair the
boats with a Kalfathammer. According to maritime superstitions the
Klabautermänner are living on boats. They like to hoax the sailors- and
fishermen, give the captain a warning of dangers of the sea and they
are knocking when the boat has a leak.

On this Pumuckl Fanpage you can find interesting informations
about the little guy and Klabautermänner.
http://www.pumucklhomepage.de

Special note: Keep your eyes opened, Sunday's children.
Klabautermänner are not invisible to you, you ought to
see them...

Awake your inner child with Windosill

You wanna play a game, but your children don't let you? If so play with
them! There are plenty of nice games to play with your little toddler or
baby, without risking a childrenhoodtrauma. And they amuse Papa and
Mama as well!

Here our tip: Take a look at the Online-Puzzle-Game "Windosill".
It's playful little Flashgame.

"You" are a little locomotive going through different worlds (or "boxes").
To pass every level you have to complete a riddle. You have to consider
all the influencing factors and the answer is never the same.

The world there is very irrational and bizarre. The goal is always to get
the little white cube to pass the next level. It's not as simple as that.
You have to try different things and click on everything that seems like
it can be clicked on and see what happens. Expect unexpected suprises!

When you don't wanna embarrass yourself in front of your kids, look at
walkthroughs on Youtube - we are sure they will help you when you are
stuck. Take as long as you need because the game has no time limit.

Togehter with your child you can train your "creative problem solving"
skills. You will see, also your little baby on your lap will love it.

Scroll down the Blog and try the game right away.
Have a good time!
          
http://windosill.com

Krampus Day!

Today is "Krampus Tag" - A very old tradition in Austria.
The Krampus or Percht is a mythical creature recognized
in the Alps. He accompanies the Nikolaus (St. Nicholas)
in the Christmas season, warning bad children, in contrast
to St. Nicholas, who gives gifts to good children.

Traditionally young men dress up as the Krampus in
Austria, Southern Bavaria and South Tyrol.

We don't wanna frighten you. For the children in Austria it's
quite normal to see them and they are looking forward to this
dark creatures. This evening the children will put their shoes
and boots at the window or outside of the door and hope for
a gift of Nikolaus. Bad children get according to the tradition
the "Rute" (a birch for whipping)...but no one really gets it.
Often the children find in their shoes a cute chocolate
Krampus and Nikolaus, mandarins and nuts.

The tradition has changed over the years. Today you will find
big Krampus Events and the maskes look more like monsters
we know from Horrormovies. We don't adjudge this.
It's quite normal that cultures and traditions change over
the years. Also when some people moans about the new trends -
Everyone has different tastes. Fact is that the art of
the mask carvers is still outstanding.

But we wanna show today here a harmless video
of Nikolaus with the Reingraben Pass Krampusse.

For more information:
http://winterbrauch.at

Christmas time has arrived!

Last time we worked a lot to find christmas songs for
Radio Trilllingo. From toddler songs to celtic songs,
from rock music to traditional carols, from blues to
pop - there is something for everyone! We filled our
agenda with 16 hours of trilingual music.
Stop by and enjoy!

Check out Christmas by ~kiiw on @deviantART

Kinder singen für ihr Leben gern!

Today's tip:
Das dreisprachige Kinderliederbuch/Nursery rhymes in three languages/
Chansons enfantines en trois langues

It's a little handy book in plastic cover (protected against babybottle
mishaps), which is full with famous nursery rhymes.

For example: Sur le pont d'Avignon, The itsy-bitsy spider, Mein Hut
der hat drei Ecken, Frère Jacques, Twinkle twinkle little star, Schlaf
Kindlein schlaf, ...

Not only for children, also parents and grandparents have their fun
with it and it fits in every pocket.

A playful way to learn!

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What's American fingerstyle guitar?

Now on Trilllingo! The American fingerstyle guitarist Andy McKee,

who is considered to be one of the finest acoustic guitar soloists. 

McKee became famous playing a live performance of the song 

"Drifting" on YouTube and held the #1, #2 and #3 positions for

Top-Rated videos of All Time. Since this his international

fanbase is growing every day.

What's American fingerstyle guitar? It's a special technique

to play guitar with the fingertips, while using the body of

guitar percussively. 

His songs are perfect for calming down your children in the

evening. This doesen't mean that they make you sleepy, not

at all! But the music will relaxe the whole family after an

exhausting day. No language, no stress - just surrounded

by this wonderful style of playing.

We're happy to share his songs now also with you.

You will find them in our evening programmes. Enjoy!

http://www.andymckee.com/