Rilen is a woman making music, physically located mostly at Tampere, Finland. Playing the guitar, 32-stringed kantele, piano and some other instruments and objects she can get her hands on. New things that make a sound are always welcomed with a happy grin. Whether going solo or collaborating with other musicians, she wants to create something in order to share this whole weird, joyous, sacred, fucked-up experience that life is. Kind of sending little notes and letters to self and others. (And with a great gratitude enjoying the little notes that other people are sending in this world in the form of music, books, paintings, poetry, films... Itīs priceless. Thanks, says she.)
RILEN is ... the kitchen, the bedroom and most of all the garage. Tube glow and a shitty gear overdrive. Fingerpicking acoustic hair. Finding a feather. D.I.Y. Macha tea high on slow mornings. Kantele. Someone's tail showing from under a supermarket shelf....luring and pulling until you have a creature there. Being too scared to leave the bubble. Leaving the bubble. Mistaking a man for a myth all over again and suffering the consequences. Black tambourine. Humming the recipe. Hearth. Fire. Screaming with Vesta!
