HEIKKI LAITINEN / MARTTI POKELA / HANNU SAHA - Soitimella-New Music for Five-string kantele CD blackened Focused as much on melody

Focused as much on melody as the texture of her playing

but wanted a more spontaneous approach

Opening with an epic and ending with a little spartan ode

They released their first four-song EP in December 2019 and the single “If Mirrors Could Speak” during lockdown in 2020 then started working on their first full-length album “A Thousand Burning Suns”

contacted stefan schmidt (guitarist

HEIKKI LAITINEN / MARTTI POKELA / HANNU SAHA - Soitimella-New Music for Five-string kantele CD blackened Focused as much on melodyWith origins buried deep in the Finnish Karelian folk imagination, it is said to have been first built by Vinminen, the mythical shaman hero of the Kalevala, from the jawbone of a giant pike. In a catalogue perhaps better known for its out there heavy metal, seismic noise rock and overall outsider sonic extremities, Soitimella arrives like a hush in a whirlwind, a solemn breath of air echoing through the iron aged pine. Released by Jussi Lehtisalos