HENNA EMILIA HIETAMÄKI FRI 18.7. 23.45 KINO
Henna Emilia Hietamäki’s album Luutarha (Soliti, 2024) is a collection of new interpretations of old folk songs and folk poetry. There are new translations and arrangements of American, English and Finnish songs from the 17th‒19th centuries, as well as new compositions for old Finnish folk poems. The unifying theme is death, facing it or longing for it. Many of the songs on the album are made especially to be played at funerals. Luutarha (“Bone Garden”) was an early suggestion as a Finnish name for the cemetery.