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"Maan alle" is the first single from Henna Emilia Hietamäki's album Luutarha, which will be released in November 2024. 

Luutarha is a collection of new interpretations of old folk songs and folk poetry. There are new translations and arrangements of American, English and Finnish songs from the 17th‒19th centuries, as well as new compositions for Kanteletar's poems. The unifying theme is death, facing it or longing for it. Many of the songs on the album are made especially to be played at funerals. 
Luutarha (“Bone Garden”) was an early suggestion as a Finnish name for the cemetery.

Four of the ten songs in Luuutarha have been recorded in Sakke Vänttinen's Rock Alley studio in Hamina with the band, and six songs have been played and produced by Hietamäki alone. Tytti Roto (bass), Hanna Perälä (drums), Juuli Jokinen (cello) and Sakke Vänttinen (vocals) have made their mark on the album. In addition to the guitar, Hietamäki has played the harmonium, Finnish zither, piano and various keyboards on the album.

The text of the song "Maan alle" is a modified interpretation of a Finnish-Carelian folk poem.
"I feel great pleasure in the directness of these old folk poems: how things are not twisted to be a bit challenging, but rather express directly that now I feel so bad that I just want to die. When you dare to face all feelings without repressing them, they also pass."

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