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Kuulin Kui Helizi Fado

Kirsi Poutanen · Esa Helasvuo · Juha Lanu · Juha Tikka

2025 · Physical and digital · ABCD 492

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Credits

Performers
Kirsi Poutanen — VocalsEsa Helasvuo — PianoJuha Lanu — Mandolin, Guitar, Backing vocalsJuha Tikka — Electric bassCarlos Manuel Proença — Acoustic guitarLuís Guerreiro — Portuguese guitarDaniel Pinto — Bass guitar

About this release

On Kirsi Poutanen’s album Kuulin Kui Helizi Fado, the saudade of Portuguese fado meets Finnish melancholy and the longing of Karelian runo singing. Poutanen’s Karelian roots have inspired her to explore connections between these cultural expressions and find a musical form in which they enrich one another.

Selected partly deliberately and partly intuitively, the texts on this recording reflect the human experience amid chaos and change: what it feels like to be rejected by one’s community, or to be forced from one’s homeland by war, oppression and destruction. Amid sorrow and death, love, consolation and a powerful desire to continue emerge — the desire to live and create something new.

Tracks

  1. 1.Há uma música do povo / On pieni laulu tuolla jossaincomp. Mario Pacheco · lyrics Tarja Härkönen, Fernando Pessoa · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002335:11
  2. 2.Reppurin laulucomp. Oskar Merikanto · lyrics Larin Kyösti · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002346:15
  3. 3.Kun katson teitä / O gente da minha terracomp. Amália Rodrigues · lyrics Tiago Machado, Tarja Härkönen · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002355:04
  4. 4.Primavera / Kevätcomp. Pedro Rodrigues · lyrics Manuel de Andrade, Tarja Härkönen · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002364:51
  5. 5.Baiju lasdacomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Trad. Suojärvi · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002373:45
  6. 6.Kansa, käyt pyykille rantaan / Povo que lavas no riocomp. Pedro Homem de Mello · lyrics Tarja Härkönen, Joãquim Campos · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002384:59
  7. 7.On suuri sun rantas autiuscomp. trad. · lyrics V.A. Koskenniemi, Kirsi Poutanen · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002393:52
  8. 8.Surucomp. Timo Ruottinen · lyrics Pirjo Kostiainen · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002405:21
  9. 9.Armottoman osacomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Kanteletar · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002413:53
  10. 10.Viere viere kyynelyönicomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Trad. Suistamo · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002424:01
  11. 11.Fado, i ristikanzu pajattau / Fado, ja ihminen laulaacomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Tarja Härkönen, Leo Makkonen · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002433:41
  12. 12.Kuulin kui helizi fadocomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Tommi Ingalsuo, Leo Makkonen · arr. Carlos Manuel Proença, Esa HelasvuoISRC FIABA25002446:12
  13. 13.Povo que lavas no riocomp. Esa Helasvuo · lyrics Leo Makkonen, Tommi Ingalsuo · arr. Esa Helasvuo, Carlos Manuel ProençaISRC FIABA25002454:27

Details

Catalogue number
ABCD 492
EAN
6429811264137
Recording year
2024–2025
Release year
2025
Format
CD

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