JOOSE KESKITALO - Tule Minun Luokseni, Kulta »
Tule minun luokseni, kulta (Come to Me, Darling) is the Finnish singer-songwriter Joose Keskitalo's fourth album. Joose Keskitalo (b.1982) has been called one of the most original and talented performers of his generation at the Finnish indenpendent music scene. His music could be described as heavy and bare-stripped with strong roots, having echoes of Finnish, melancholic Shlager with Slavic melodies, Karelian traditional music, Finnish church songs, old blues, folk and Vysotski. On the album, the shapes of music range from Keskitalo's solo performances with acoustic guitar and harmonica to Neil Young-ish electric rock or Waitsian nightmare waltz with full band. In the end, however, everything comes out sounding unmistakably Keskitalo. Musicians playing on this record accompany Keskitalo's dramatic compositions sensibly, using whatever instruments needed from tasty trombones and sousaphones to a gentle harmonium to bring the best out of Keskitalo's vision. Still, the most sonically startling instrument on the album is Joose Keskitalo's instantly recognizable voice: sharp and distinct, extending from warm whispers to manic hollering.
The album's main theme is love, studied at times in a poetic, sensitive way and more often than not in an absurdist fashion with stories of unlucky romances with bloody details and grim humour (e.g. Luultavasti jäit junan alle (You Were Probably Hit by a Train)). Like on his previous albums, Joose Keskitalo's lyrics here often also deal with death, God and faith. Keskitalo's lyrical approach to religious themes is often controversial and non-traditional. The album starts with a song where the cemetery is jerking off and fantasizing about a bride that is arriving from the morgue. Later comes an apocalyptic vision where God is moving in the electricity distribution network, destroys the world by a nuclear disaster and confesses that He didn't achieve very much with the world He created. The search for faith and God is hard, when "the world has glass eyes and a mute mouth", "words are little whores willing to be in every position with everybody on every bed" and "nobody is a human being". On the last song (Kerubi kosketti huuliani (A Cherub Touched My Lips) there's a feeling of redemption when the dead are singing praises and the pine trees at the cemetery are humming.
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