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Janne Westerlund’s There’s a Passage out Feb. 15; Two New Songs Posted

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In the span of two tracks, Janne Westerlund goes from ultra-minimal guy-and-guitar Finnish folk blues to sprawling choral harmonies (in English, but really, the linguistic swap is the smallest of the changes) — and that’s supposed to be the lead-in for Westerlund‘s forthcoming solo LP, There’s a Passage. Wildest part is it probably makes sense when you hear the record. Westerlund, of course, is best known for his work in on-their-own-wavelength-forever progressive post-everything outfit Circle, among others, and There’s a Passage is his second solo offering, set to be released on Feb. 17 via Ektro Records. He’s got two Circle tracks on there among other originals, and the two I mentioned at the start of this paragraph? Yeah, they’re both streaming. You can check them out below.

Art and info off the PR wire:

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JANNE WESTERLUND sets release date for new EKTRO album, reveals first tracks

Ektro Records sets February 17th as the international release date for Janne Westerlund’s highly anticipated There’s a Passage. After Marshland, the darkest blues album ever released in Finland, Westerlund is trying to find some light with this new solo effort. By deploying means ranging from the choral exploration of “So Messed Up” to the obsessedly monotonic boogie of “Run No More,” completed with two songs from Circle’s repertoire, he manages to come up with a captivating, sorcerous journey for an album.

Westerlund’s roots may be deep in folk music, but over the years, playing with such bands as Circle, Pharaoh Overlord and Plain Ride, he has developed a highly personalized take on it by questioning the conventions of any given genre. Despite his uncompromising and austere vision on music, there remains an undertone of uncertainty and vulnerability in his voice – perhaps it is precisely this ambivalence that makes his work so accessible and strikingly effective. Hear the first examples of such with the tracks “Kuoleman lautturin tyta?r” HERE and “So Messed Up” HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Janne Westerlund’s There’s a Passage
1. So Messed Up
2. Sick Child
3. Run No More
4. Days of Love
5. Oh Wind
6. Kuoleman lautturin tytar
7. Ydinaukio
8. Back to Etcetera
9. You Come From Far
10. There’s a Passage

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