Henna Emilia Heitamäki – Luutarha

  • Catalogue No: Soliti 114
  • Artist: Henna Emilia Hietamäki
  • Title: Luutarha
  • Format: LP; Digital
  • Released: 08.11.2024

Tracklist

  • Tuu tuu tuonelahan
    Kultalintu
    Lähteet laaksojen
    Maan alle
    Joessa voi huuhtoa surunsa pois
    Kuusen juuret
    Itkupaju
    Villisorsa
    Luinen lautta on koristeltu kukkasin
    Armo suuri rajaton

Production credits:
1 & 2 & 4 & 6 & 8 & 9 recorded & mixed by  Henna Emilia Hietamäki.
3 & 5 & 7 & 10 recorded & mixed by Sakke Vänttinen at Rock Alley Studios.
Mastered by Ville Valavuo.

Song credits:
1. & 2. & 4. & 6. music H.E.H. Lyrics trad. & H.E.H.
3. Orig. “Weep You No More, Sad Fountains” by John Dowland, 1603. Lyrics H.E.H.
5. Orig. “Down in the River to Pray” trad. Lyrics H.E.H.
7. Orig. “Bury Me Beneath the Willow” trad. Lyrics H.E.H.  8. Music & lyrics trad.
9. Music H.E.H. 10. Orig. “Amazing Grace” by John Newton, 1772. Lyrics H.E.H.

Album sleeve: Melina Paakkonen
Photography by Tekla Valy

Henna Emilia Heitamäki’s Luutarha is a collection of new interpretations of old folk songs and folk poetry. There are new translations and arrangements of American, English and Finnish songs from the 17th‒19th centuries, as well as new compositions for old Finnish folk poems. The unifying theme is death, facing it or longing for it. Many of the songs on the album are made especially to be played at funerals. Luutarha (“Bone Garden”) was an early suggestion as a Finnish name for the cemetery.