'Take a group of men from the northern Finnish town of Oulu - population 100,000 - dress them in dark suits with black ties made from the inner tubes of car tyres. Next, send them out on to the ice floes of the frozen Baltic and get them to shout - in choral unison - at a stranded 10,000-ton ice breaking vessel, and you have got something called Mieskuoro Huutajat. Otherwise known as the shouting men of Finland, it is more than a bunch of Finns getting things off their chests by upping their decibels. It is a new art form, and it is taking parts of the world by arctic storm. Audiences in France, Iceland, Britain and Japan - to name but a few - have already been either entranced or baffled by the choristers of Oulu.' BBC News
Mieskuoro Huutajat: video and audio clips.
