Back to Carita Holmstrom in the ultra rare CD Duo! (1994)

I think you can safely ignore the cover photograph, totally unrepresentative of the musical contents.  I can't possibly explain it away, not should anyone for that matter. so let's drop the matter altogether and move on with the music review.

This is an artist who has never really disappointed us (me?), you can see all the albums I posted from her by using the search function, and for this reason I waited literally years for this album to turn up finally for sale.  It's pretty rare, I don't think you'll see another one come up for many years, unless you live in Finland, which doesn't happen to many people at all--perhaps a few million? sometimes? And it's really amazing that in the specific year of release, 1994, when alternative, heavy metal, so-called electronica, the new punk rock were all hitting the music scene like a tornado or rather four simultaneous tornados wiping all the older genres away, she made this incredibly progressive chamber music song collection with her long time collaborator Teppo Hauta-aho.  Just consider this one she wrote, giving it the English title of Just for the record, with cello accompanying her piano:





Information is here.  One track was recycled, oddly, from Aquamarin where it was called Nattvakten, here renamed Yövartija and cut off in a very odd manner.  In case you want to verify the discography, you will find We Are the debut here, the second album Toinen Levy here, Two Faces, Aquamarin and Growing , and now finally this one at the bottom.