Eleanoora Rosenholm
Can’t stop listening to this slightly quirky new age gem Pimeä Tähti from Eleanoora Rosenholm’s 3rd EP on Fonal, and I truly believed that she was a real person until this fated Boomkat review proved it otherwise.
Despite sounding like a Northern European disco songstress, Eleanoora Rosenholm is actually a serial killing housewife created by the splintered mind of Circle core-member Mika Ratto. Along with Pasi Salmi and Noora Tommila, he makes freakishly weird electronic ‘concept’ music, which tells the peculiar story of suburban housewife Eleanoora Rosenholm. ‘Hyväile Minua Pimeä Tähti’ is the band’s third album, and takes their very unique blend of chamber music and disco into deeper, darker realms without losing that unique sense of fun we know and love. There is something so deeply Finnish about this music, and while labels like Olde English Spelling Bee and Not Not Fun have managed to strike a similar seam of weird juxtapositions, Fonal have been doing it far longer. At times you could be listening to church music, at others Eleanoora Rosenholm sound more like John Carpenter or Goblin, and as unexpected as that might sound it’s a welcome blend. There’s something unashamedly gleeful about Mika Ratto’s tireless experiments, and all we can do is soak it up gratefully. Boomkat