Muistatko a method

In Muistatko a method a singer attempts to decipher a song they are singing in a language they do not speak The 1955 song Muistatko Monreposn was the first Finnish record to go gold and is still the fourth best selling single in Finland The location it refers to occupies a specific place in Finnish cultural memory as somewhere that was lost and as such the waltz is highly loaded What meaning remains when the music is stripped away At present the nostalgic is not a neutral territory it can be hard to separate weaponised nostalgia from its more wellintended forms When its affective qualities are combined with notions of national identity a potentially difficult space opens up Muistatko a method is about trying to feel the weight of this context from the outside