After nine years, a new Paavoharju album has been released. Reason enough to talk to the head of the group, Lauri Ainala, about the new album »Happiness«, a collaboration with Folk-Singer Joose Keskitalo, and to seek some answers about that ever-mysterious thing from the cold north.

Finland is to be envied: It gave the world the gifts of M. A. Numminen and the Humppa. And now, the label Svart Records is releasing a whole bunch of music from Paavoharju, a project rightfully sitting among the ranks of those other famous Finnish curiosities.