Riya Volkova
The Irina Volkova project grew out of a duet of a kantele player and a bassist. In 2019, the album "Meri" was released with songs by Karel, the Setu people in electronic processing. The songs of this album were included in the French project "National Origins of Beauty", which is broadcast on French television. In 2021, the album "Strands of Water", dedicated to the inner feelings of Aria (lyrics in Russian), was released on US radio and Finnish radio. Individual tracks of the project were played on Russian Radio in the program "On the edge of Folk" and were released in a video by a Karelian film director. In 2023, jouhikko player Santeri Dobrynin joined the project.