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Ik​ä​vä

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I started to write these songs with piano and vocals around 2010-2011.... Ikävä was one of the first songs I wrote - I guess the song is about longing for something to happen while you are kind of stuck in the middle of depression, anxiety and frustration about future before going to college. At the time I was in between studying photography and creative writing, more precisely, poetry, so I was in the mood for writing and experimenting with different ways to make music, sing and play piano, very raw, clangy, angsty and kinda irratatingly fun. Sonically I was interested increating repetitive powerful piano chords and free flowing melodies with voice. This was the time when I also was about to move to the UK and later USA, which is why I started to write songs in Finnish - I wanted to write them just for myself, really.

Finally after forming the band with Johanna and Satu in 2016 the songs saw an actual daylight. I had written the songs with a lot of space for other elements, so when we arranged the songs with bass and drums, that’s when the songs really came together, sounding full and complete. During these years I have been listening and thinking how just the simplest elements give the strongest emotion when making music, texts or art - such a cliché, however sometimes it is just like that. Most of often though, more the better...

I really wanted the song to play with the idea of playful rythms and melodies as the lyrics are telling a story about anxiety and depression. The piano interwines first with the bass and finally the drums join in and in the last bit they are all flowing in and out while the vocals jump on the top.

lyrics

Ikävä

Ikävöin vain sitä mitä minulla ei oo ollutkaan
ikävöin vain sitä mitä mitä mitä en saanutkaan
ikävä ikävä jää
ikä-ikä ikä-ikä ikä-ikä häviää

Ikävä jättää jälkensä, sitten kääntää kylkeä
ikävä halaa hyvästin, kunnes palaa takaisin

Ikäväksi tullaan, ikävään laitetaan
ikävästä pääse pois ei huutamalla hiljaa
katsomalla peiliin, kuka sieltä katsoo?
ei oo ketään, jota sä et tunne
se jää sun ihon alle, polttaa, painaa läpi, katsoo silmään,
tuijottaa

Ikävä istuu viereen
ikävä tarttuu kieleen
se ei, ei lähde pois
vaikka kuinka kuka tahansa ois
ikävä ei, ei lähde pois
vaikka kuinka kuka tahansa kuvittelis' et' ois ois ois

Mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois
mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois
mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois
mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois

Mä syljen sun niskaan, mä puhallan korvaan
mä syljen sun suuhun, mä puhallan korvaan
mä syljen sun silmään, mä puren sun korvaan
mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois

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released March 22, 2019
Lyrics by Emilia Pennanen
Written by Emilia Pennanen
Composed by Emilia Pennanen
Arranged by Emilia Pennanen, Satu Salminen, Johanna Järvinen

Piano and vocals: Emilia Pennanen
Drums and percussion: Satu Salminen
Bass: Johanna Järvinen

Mixing: Tuomas Alatalo
Mastering: Philip Granqvist
Recorded at Mankku 2018 by Nick Triani

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Ocelot is an alternative pop-rock band from Helsinki, Finland. The band draws inspiration from classic 60's and 70's pop rock and mixes it with the member’s own personal musical sensibilities. The band's first full length album Auringon puutarha (Soliti) will be released in November 2022. ... more

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