This is the first solo product from vocalist Laura Naukkarinen from Kiila, Päivänsäde and The Anaksimandros, with help from Pekko Käppi and Thomas Regan on two tracks (1 & 6), and Antti Tolvi on the four other tracks. Her multilayered vocal parts are able to create very special overtones, especially on “Kuula”. On “Jos Mimulla Olis” Himmalaya ? instruments are used in an experimental free way, very moody, while on “Kuljen halki Kuutatarhan” tampura, flutes, acoustic guitar are used more conventionally, moving slowly. Everywhere there are creations of harmonies of sounds, reinventing ethno-traditional music instruments playing (like the five-stringed kantele amongst other instruments). This is well recorded and fluctuous, inspired, colourful, with details in peaceful spaces, with free open structures, balancing on a thin wire of logical evolution, with harmony clusters and poetic expressions, and song structured. The music, compared to reading literature, is a book with the leaves spread in the order of a tree. You get a three-dimensional picture, like nature's sounds from a human soul. Where the order of this nature is mostly from a transcending level, last track sounds like an improvisation with pots and pans before a house and with a bird sound in the background, like a conclusion with a human aspect. Recommended !
