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Risto "Nina, Olen Palasina"

Thursday, May 11, 2006

The subject of “Nina, Olen Palasina” (mp3) is haunted by the woman named in the title, but the torture is of his own design, Poe-style*. He’s obsessing over the detritus left after her departure, triggering memory-floods and specters of presence. He is able to enunciate his feelings perfectly well, but is completely impotent to stop them returning, and returning, and returning. I love how the song assumes an assured structure when her name is mentioned for the first time, as if affirming her presence, before reverting back to the doubt-laden anxiety of the earlier state. The effect is composite, though, and the song grows more and more disturbed—the voices from the attic disappearing and reappearing—until completely deteriorating into a melange of half-utterances and partially remembered conversations, contintuing until it collapses onto itself.

Risto is a band, and they are on Fonal.

*My Finnish is a bit weak, to the point of non-existence.

Elsewhere: Oh, fuck yeah, Dr. Kingmaker. I concur.

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