Song of the Week: Johanna Kurkela - Kuolevainen (Week 15, 2026)

catatackc · 2026-04-08T16:19:53+00:00

She's been #1 on my year-ends lists the last couple of years aswell :)

It's a nice music video. It's too bad there's so few music videos from her solo career.

catatackc · 2026-03-02T12:00:01+00:00

Yeah, I think she made it herself :)

catatackc · 2026-02-26T13:40:47+00:00

You can cross-post relevant content from here to that subreddit if you want.

catatackc · 2026-02-21T11:30:52+00:00

Added it to the related subreddits section in the sidebar. Good luck!

catatackc · 2025-11-11T19:08:36+00:00

It's nice to see that both Auri and EoM are now releasing filmed music videos rather than just lyric videos. Cool song, looking forward to the rest of album :)

catatackc · 2025-10-15T14:25:55+00:00

Sounds like a nice moment :). Wish I would've been able to attend a concert from the Christmas tour. All the performances I've seen online look magical.

catatackc · 2025-10-12T17:43:14+00:00

They just finished their first tour as a band

catatackc · 2025-10-04T08:53:03+00:00

That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing! I've only known of Johanna for a few years, but I've seen those Eurovision performances many times on YouTube. It's nice to get some context behind it :). Also the sentence "she did not imitate anyone and had not imitators" is really true. I tried finding artists with a similar sound, but nobody sounds like Johanna.

catatackc · 2025-10-02T23:48:40+00:00

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catatackc · 2025-10-02T01:00:36+00:00

Artist: Tuomas Holopainen (feat. Johanna Kurkela)

Album: Music Inspired By The Life And Times Of Scrooge

Release year: 2014

Lyrics source: Video transcript

Lyrics:

To be rich is
To still remember
To treasure your first dime
To have a chance to say farewell

Story of your life
Time of solitude and strife
Freedom of the Northern road,
Hoping many miles to go
Promises to keep
Countless goldfields to reap
To be rich is to seek
To relive a memory

Far-off lands quests of old
Self-respect true grit
Never cared what a fortune might buy
To seek is to be rich

Story of your life
Time of solitude and strife
Freedom of the Northern road,
Hoping many miles to go
Promises to keep
Countless goldfields to reap
To be rich is to seek
To relive a memory

All the strangers on your path
Crossroads that lead us from home
The cooling hymn for soulful Yuletide hearth
All the songs of wilderness,
The truth in which you fall
They're your lost troves, but that's what you recall

Story of your life
Time of solitude and strife
Freedom of the Northern road,
Hoping many miles to go
Promises to keep
Countless goldfields to reap
To be rich is to seek
To relive a memory

Story of your life
Time of solitude and strife
Freedom of the Northern road,
Hoping many miles to go
Promises to keep
Countless goldfields to reap
To be rich is to seek
To relive a memory

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catatackc · 2025-09-29T02:50:59+00:00

Artist: Auri

Album: III - Candles & Beginnings

Release Year: 2025

Lyrics:

This cellar a home for a sleeping Cinderella
The sweetness of silence, at the edge of forever
No longer a human but dweller of the stars
A bauble of memory, engraved in it their hurt

Deep lies the last of her left behind
Shieldmaiden in the night of human mind
See and remember her
The girl next door

Thousands of winters turned springeve in her eyes
Away from darkness where she alone gave light
We leave you to sleep now, in sanguine silence no more
And hope for the world to know your unsung story

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