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Kellarissa - Oh No! It Might Snow

from Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada XI by Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada

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Larissa Loyva has long been a player in the Vancouver scene, having been a member of P:ano, The Choir Practice, Fake Tears and a touring member of numerous bands including Destroyer and How To Dress Well amongst others. Over the last ten years she has also released three solo LPs as Kellarissa (Finnish for in the basement). Her most recent album Ocean Electro, released last year, took its inspiration from the Ocean (and its name from a Vancouver marine electrical services company). Psychy-synth lines meet driving electro-pop, surging like tides, sometimes soothing and often dark and menacing. Loyva took the record on tour to Japan earlier this year.

Her most recent release however eschews the instruments and arrangements she’s usually known for and replaces them with the accordion. Fourteen years after the release of traditional Finnish winter album Limihankala, We’re Mest finds Loyva in playful mood, riffing on Tammy Faye’s Christmas album We’re Blest, even as far as Loyva recreating Faye’s album cover. Drawing on ideas of family and Finnish traditions and the weather, the EP embraces the darker side of seasonal folk songs, while the soft drone of the accordion and shimmering bells give the EP a warm winter glow.

Listen to Kellarissa : kellarissa.bandcamp.com

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from Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada XI, released December 16, 2019

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