BIO

Amelouk is mysterious and haunting, music pulled up from a sea of dreams, at the shining edge of the abyss. Its name comes from the Finnish word for death, kuolema, read backwards. The music has an experimental quality, sometimes teetering somewhere close to contemporary classical, with darkwave sensibilities.

​Olga Vähä-Piikkiö (based in Helsinki, Finland) is the mind behind Amelouk. Once a seasick marine physicist, she now trawls the deep recesses of her psyche for musical expression.

​Amethyst Mines is Amelouk’s debut album. On it acoustic piano and Vähä-Piikkiö’s classical-adjacent vocals form visions ranging from uneasy to ethereal, often both. The sound world is occasionally spiced with clarinet, saxophone, percussions and the lyre. The songs weave their own worlds with unusual harmonies and intricate tensions.

​Currently an unnamed electroacoustic album with varying instrumentation and lots more experimentation is in the works. The Sorrows of Young Werther is the first taste of this second album.

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