Helt nytt. Limited to 30 copies.

Solo kantele composition recordings without overdubs recorded by noemienours on Olympus WS-853 digital dictaphone.
The noemienours kantele is custom-made to have a A415 tuning.

Recorded at Norrlands universitetsjukhus, Umeå, May 2023. No illness was involved in the making of this album.

From the Kalevala Runo 41 about the origins (estimated to be older than 3000 years before J.-C.) of the kantele (English translation below):

"Ei ollut sitä metsässä
jalan neljän juoksevata, koivin koikkelehtavata,
ku ei tullut kuulemahan, iloa imehtimähän.
Oravat ojentelihe lehväseltä lehväselle;
tuohon kärpät kääntelihe, aioillen asettelihe.
Hirvet hyppi kankahilla, ilvekset piti iloa.
Heräsi susiki suolta, nousi karhu kankahalta
petäjäisestä pesästä, kutiskosta kuusisesta.
Susi juoksi suuret matkat, karhu kankahat samosi;
viimein aiallen asettui, veräjälle vieretäikse:
aita kaatui kalliolle, veräjä aholle vieri.
Siitä kuusehen kuvahti, petäjähän pyörähytti
soitantoa kuulemahan, iloa imehtimähän."

"There was not a single creature
Of the forest, of the woodland,
Not a single four-foot runner,
Nor a single hind-leg leaper
That did not run out to listen
And to wonder at the joyance.
Squirrels hurried out to hear it,
Leaping on from branch to branch,
And the weasels came there also,
Settling down upon the fences;
On the heather elk were bounding,
Lynxes leaping up for joy.
Even the fen-laired wolf awoke
And the heath bear from his den
In the pine and firwood thicket.
From afar the wolf came running,
And the bear traversed the heathland
Till he landed on a fence,
Threw himself upon the gate.
The fence fell over on the rocks
And the gate into the clearing.
Then he scampered up a fir tree,
Spun around in a pine,
There to listen to the playing
And to wonder at the joyance."
(Lönnrot, Elias. Kalevala [translated by Eino Friberg]. Penguin Books: London, 1988 [2021])

This is noemienours records #18.

FFO: traditional kantele music, anti dungeon synth, Plinth, Laraaji