The editor recommends | Spring power song makes you dance even on a bad day – I found the most interesting album of the beginning of the year

Already now you can say that Mie Minja Kosken the album that came out in March The blackheads came is one of the most interesting this year. Among other things, in the songs of the singer-actress known from the stage of Teatteri Vanhan Juko and Q-teatteri, blackbirds knock on the glass with their yellow soot, children speak Latin and the narrator collects seven herbs from seven meadows under his pillow.

Sometimes we get caught up in a dance beat: Molotov cocktail – in the piece, the magic potion is filtered through the tights and the nails are sharpened beautifully. What pleases me in the songs is that there is room for the listener’s interpretation. The lyrics are mysterious and in places there is even a threat in the air.

You don’t have to worry about domestic indie music. In addition to M, original artists such as Lyti, Rebecca Holi, Pansy, Rosita Luu and Plush. In terms of versatility, however, M probably brings to mind the most Yona. Both have drawn from domestic rhythms of past decades, both are exceptionally skillful voice users.

I don’t like the word power song, but VellamoI couldn’t think of a better definition for the song. In it, the exhausted narrator searches for his lost tail, which was taken from him a year earlier. “Saimaa is calling, it is tempting, it is lurking again, I look at the open, my eyes moist, admiring the lakeside”, M sings like an angel.

No matter how bad the day is, listening to this makes you smile even behind the tears.

M: Blackbirds came (Playground Music)

Farewell and miracles of growth

Mischievous and wise. Light and deep. Absurd and apt.

Anja Erämaja brought with his first work Singer’s papers (2005) a unique humorous voice in domestic poetry, which readers have been able to enjoy in six poetry collections already. The language of the poet, who also works as a performing artist, is rhythmic, sometimes even breathtaking.

In the one that just came out Someone always goes first – in the work, the pace has perhaps calmed down a bit, because now the (middle-aged) self of the poem says goodbye to his mother. You tilt the beakers, the milk flows into the mother, disappears, without saying goodbye, the mother craves something else, do you want a comb, a hair band, a fox candy?

At the same time, nature bursts into bloom, the garden is planted and weeded, life goes on.

Anja Erämaja: Someone always goes first (WSOY)

The Queen of Auschwitz dismays

Nazi families spend a summer day in the garden near the concentration camp wall. Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest is definitely worth seeing in the dark of a movie theater, but it is also available on streaming services. Picture: Film4

Beginning year it was a celebration of great premieres, and there was no way I had time to watch them all in movie theaters.

Fortunately by Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest has slowly appeared for rent on streaming services.

the commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hössin and his wife Hedwig’s life next to the concentration camp is the next movie chilling and wonderful work, which everyone should see. It manages to deal with the subject in such a way that even though the horrible massacres of the Jews are not shown on screen, the viewer himself imagines the horror in the story.

The “queen of Auswitch” is seen as a German Sandra Hüllerwho also plays a wonderful role in another film that premiered earlier this year, Justine Trietin In Anatomy of a Fall. If Hüller were American and acted in Hollywood productions, the whole world would know him.

The Zone of Interest, Viaplay and Elisa Viihde

Correction 24.5. at 9:45 p.m.: In the caption, M’s album was incorrectly spelled Mustarastaat vuet. The photographer information was also incorrect, the photo was taken by Miikka Ahlman.