Kirjeitä mustasta aukosta
(Letters from a Black Hole, 1995)

• Uunilaulu (Hearth Song)
• Helena katoaa heinikkoon 
(Helena Disappears in the Hayfield)
• Maan ääniä 
(Sounds of the Earth / Argentine Ants)
• Polestarin kapteeni 
(The Captain of the Polestar - from a
short story by Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Antero nukkuu (Antero sleeps)
• Talviomenapuu (Winter Apple Tree)

Most of the music on "Letters from a Black Hole", the first album of Keinomaa, was taped on a pocket-size DAT recorder at a cottage in Snappertuna in autumn 1995. In those days the band was:
 

Mervi Hujanen	bass, vocals
Mika Salonoja	guitars, vocals, 150 kg of sound-processing hardware
Seppo Sipilä	keyboards & such psychedelia generators
Jukka Aaltonen	percussions

MP3 sound samples of the songs on this album are available below and on the left.

"Uunilaulu" (Hearth Song) is about two friends by the red-glowing embers of a hearth late at night, in deep thought.

"Helena katoaa heinikkoon" (Helena Disappears in the Hayfield) is a fond youth reminiscence. Overexposed, grainy old 8 mm films shot by a once-teenage boy on a sunny hayfield where a pretty girl hides giggling - you get the picture.

"Maan ääniä" (Sounds of the Earth / Argentine Ants) tells a horror story that, strangely enough, owes a lot to Carl Barks. When we played this at gigs, little children in the audience often got scared enough to burst in tears.

"Polestarin kapteeni" (The Captain of the Polestar) is another horror story, this time by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Imagine yourself on a 19th century whaler surrounded by the icy expanses of the Arctic, with the captain acting more insane day by day, until a chilling apparition finally sends him over the edge. Dress warmly for this one!

And then, up with the middle finger! "Antero nukkuu" (Antero sleeps) is a wisecrack about the apathy and shutting out of unpleasant news and ideas that is so common to our way of life.

"Talviomenapuu" (Winter Apple Tree), sung by Mervi, is a beautiful song about... err... umm... well, ask Kivi Larmola who made the lyrics.