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KUUPUU

Kuupuu is a solo project of Jonna Karanka. She's been involved in such groups as Avarus,
The Anaksimandros, Maniacs Dream, Kukkiva Poliisi, Lussu&Pami, Lussu ja Magneetti, Kermakolmio,
Hertta Lussu Ässä, Thriller Bingo, Way Of The Cross etc. Kuupuu plays partly improvised spooky boogie with tapes,
loops, toys, casios, effects and voices. Her live sets are time travels through unfound galaxies, deserted huts, nightmares,
dirty doghouses, sweet cakes and cranberry lakes - letting the melodies find their own ways and settle or unsettle in the whole.

"... Karanka's dreamily cracked songs are her strenght, and they ache
with the melancholy of the best acid folk chanteuses the 70s had to offer."
jim haynes the wire 268

"... Kuupuu conjures up mysteries deep and true, sometimes revealing chlorophyll glaciers spreading out under icy waters,
sometimes bringing to life wicker dolls through whispered incantations and narrations of animal death.
Her voice is the haunting, her instrumentation is the house, and out the window flowers are
surprisingly bright around the bird nests and chorus keepers."
theo angell dusted magazine 01/2008

"... because Kuupuu is so much more than just freak folk or a woman’s solo home recordings.
Jonna Karanka is uniquely imaginitive and mesmerizingly inquisitive sound- and songmaker.
It is never possible to say if she is following a vision or just taps along to what is coming from her unconscious.
Probably both. Her songs and tracks are dreamlike, of an eerie beauty and seem to work out of
themselves with ease. I have no other ways to describe this mystery than in equally
mysterious terms. With everything that is psychedelic in the true sense of the word, and not the hippy-trodden
term that denounces longwinded guitar solos without energy, description is hard.
Listen for yourself and you’ll see what I mean."
cracked 02/2007

"... it's smoky as hell and exceedingly nice."
jon dale the wire 268

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