Disc rating|Kalle Ahola, known from Don Huono, has a new band behind her eighth solo album. The melodies are recognizable and packaged in a carefully constructed timbre.
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Kalle Ahola deals with sadness and loss in his album Meri jose län.
Ahola is known as the vocal soloist of Don Huonoje and has released eight solo albums.
Janne Halmkrona, Olli-Matti Wahlström and Kalle Chydenius play in the new band.
The album’s melodies and arrangements are carefully constructed and inspired.
Rock / album
Kalle Ahola & Puut: The sea where I live. Wooden boards.
★★★★
About four years ago, an illness took the singer-songwriter From Kalle Ahola long-term spouse. Ahola decided to deal with the experiences of loss and grief by making the songs that have now become The sea where I live album called.
Ahola, best known as the vocal soloist of Don Huonoje, is a persistent artist. He has already released eight solo albums, seven of which were made after the breakup of Don Huonoje.
Don Huonot, who enjoyed the greatest popularity at the turn of the millennium, has reunited for gigs several times, most recently last summer, but Ahola has only made new music as a solo artist.
Any no great commercial success has come from previous solo records.
Now Ahola has a new band behind him, which includes guitarists who played in CMX Janne Halmkrona and the drummer Olli-Matti Wahlström and a bassist Kalle Chydeniuswho has also been the producer of the new album.
Chydenius is a familiar partner for Ahola, as he once produced Don Huonoje’s hit records of the late 1990s.
The sea where I live is the best album of Ahola’s solo career. Its melodies are in many places typical and recognizable of their creator, but this time they have been adapted and packaged into a carefully constructed sound, which includes the traces of artists who inspired both Ahola and the band’s players in their youth.
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The songs echo the Pixies, Police, Cult and Rush of my youth.
There are Pixies, Police, Cult and Rush, but also 1990’s gimmicks, such as distorted vocals and wall-cracking beats. It sounds functional again and brings a sense of drama to the songs.
In the texts Ahola has abandoned the ambiguous expressions and metaphors he used in the previous production.
The sea where I live tells about losing a loved one without fuss, sometimes even too fussily.
The only quoted text is A glorious rainbowwhich originates from Mika Waltarin from the poetry collection Foreign Legion from 1929. It fits the album as a whole naturally.
Song order is made with thought anyway. Ahola refers to the one published in 2018 The light I breathe -album in the album’s title track, but also in the closing track of the new album Wind lifter.
The same all-powerful character related to nature and spirituality also appeared on the previous album with a song Our days are not numberedwhich now sounds like a prediction of the future.
Although the subjects of the songs are dark and heavy, there is also a zest for life in the music, not least in the song Yeah it should be like thatwhere the melody of the chorus is catchy at first listen, and Walhlström’s drum comp beats like a runner’s pulse.
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