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1.
Viima 04:17
2.
Routa 03:58
3.
Kuura 05:05
4.
Railo 06:24
5.
Musta Jää 06:53
6.
Kelirikko 04:50
7.
Sula 07:37

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Hannu Karjalainen's new LP Railo is the third album to be released on the Signature Dark label, first digitally and later on vinyl. The album features seven electroacoustic ambient soundscapes.

The tracks were composed during the winter months in Helsinki, Finland in 2019-2021. Railo (finnish for "a crack in the ice" or "crevasse") can be seen as on ode to winter, the richness of the seasons and different weather conditions which have been an inspiration to Karjalainen’s work.
The arc of the album follows seasons from autumn to spring, starting from cold autumn winds (Viima) and ending to the melting of the ice (Sula). Different winter phenomena are explored on the way, including ”Routa” (finnish for "ground frost"), ”Kuura” (rime) and ”Kelirikko” (a term known especially in the archipelago meaning a time at the end of winter when the frozen sea does not support transportation anymore but boat traffic is neither possible). Yet, the album is being suffused with a sadness stemming from the threatening permanent changes in the diversity and balance of nature trough the climate change caused by us.

”Railo” is an audiovisual project which also contains three video art works to be released online, ”Railo”, "Musta Jää" and ”Sula”. The video of ”Railo” depicts a constantly mutating snowy landscape while the crackles and rumbles on soundtrack take us seemingly inside the ice.

Hannu Karjalainen is an internationally acclaimed electronic musician, video artist and photographer based in Helsinki, Finland. His albums have been released on international record labels since 2007, lately on the renowned German label Karaoke Kalk. Domestically Karjalainen is known as the recipient of Young Artist of the Year (in 2009), one of Finland's biggest art awards. His video art works and photographs have been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Zürich, Paris and Helsinki, among other places.

Signature Dark record label was founded in May 2020 in Helsinki. The core of the label is to release dark, melancholic, minimalist and cinematic music. Genres such as ambient, drone and dark / doom / noir jazz are in the spotlight, but there’s always room for other material as well as long as it fits the big picture with everything starting from the experimental ground.
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released March 19, 2021

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released April 13, 2021

All music written and produced by Hannu Karjalainen.
Photography: Hannu Karjalainen.
Design: Juuso Koponen.
Mastering: Ian Hawgood.

Signature Dark 2021

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Signature Dark (Label) Helsinki, Finland

From slowly evolving sound textures to esoteric rhythms, open your mind to minimal richness.

Melancholic. Dark. Cinematic.

Signature Dark is a novel musical concept which runs the gamut of vivid and atmospheric soundscapes from ambient to drone, dark jazz, dub, and experimental music. Occasionally, the sound will even be flipped into minimalistic techno and jungle territory.
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