Cat No:
SVART091CD
Release Date: 06 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430050669713
Genres: Rock
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Description
Svart Records is thrilled to release Amen 3, Mikko Joensuu's third solo album. The Finnish singer-songwriter's new album is more than the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Amen 1 and Amen 2: it is the final chapter in the story begun by its predecessors. Each album is part of a triptych, with Amen 3 integral to the whole picture. Yet, still, Amen 3 stands on its own. Amen 3 begins with "Birth", a song which is actually a goodbye: a break with all that has come before. The album ends with "Pearly Gates", another goodbye: but one which is irrevocable - the end to the creative and soul-searching artistic process inspiring all three albums. Overall, Amen 3 describes a dream, woken from during "Dream About A Miracle" when Mikko embraces what will come after he has left behind what moved him to compose this deeply personal musical voyage through who he is, what has made him and who he has become. Each album is an unfiltered of Mikko's search to free himself from his past and move on. In his home country, reviews of the "snow-white pure" Amen 1 pointed to its intimacy and minimalism. Amen 2 was "moving toward the light" with "more life-affirming lyrics" than Amen 1. On Amen 3, Mikko explains that "the harmonic features of Amen 1 and the popiness of Amen 2 swim into another world where I forgot the usual ways I write songs. The songs live in a bigger world where I did not analyse what happened. Amen 3 is more free.""These are personal albums," reveals Mikko, explaining his inspirations. "Personal emotions run through these albums. One main thing is depression, the darkness that people sometimes go through. The other thing is the religious aspect of my life. I was raised in a Pentecostal Christian home and surroundings. I grew up to be the person I am through that and I had to ask what is the concept of God, and how we ease our pain finding places which comfort us. These were big themes. Yet I didn't think about them when I was writing the songs and didn't specifically want to write songs about them. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Birth
- 2. House Of Fire
- 3. The Worst In Me
- 4. Perfect Patterns
- 5. Dream About A Miracle
- 6. Pearly Gates
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