Soul Song No. 22 - Heikki Hallanoro (Official Video)

Описание: “Soul Remembers” – Soul Song dedicated to Heikki’s mother who has Alzheimer's Disease.
In Soul Song No. 22 Heikki Hallanoro weaves silence and memory into melody — a piano piece that breathes with the tenderness of love persisting through loss. Each note lingers like a half-forgotten scent, each pause a heartbeat reaching across the fading veil of time.

The music opens softly, like dawn filtering through old curtains, carrying the gentle ache of remembrance. Themes drift in and out — familiar, yet just beyond reach — mirroring the fragile dance between love and forgetting. The harmonies unfold as if the instrument itself were remembering: hesitant, trembling, but luminous in its truth.

Inspired by Hallanoro’s own verse — “I love as long as I remember. I remember as long as I love.” — this composition is a conversation between son and mother, between the enduring soul and the vanishing mind. Beneath its melancholy lies grace: the realization that love does not vanish when memory fades; it transforms, becoming the music that remains.
In Soul Remembers, what is lost is found again — not in words, but in sound, in the quiet pulse of devotion that never forgets.

Legendary Mons Records release by Finland's only Piano Balladist Heikki Hallanoro from the Arctic Circle Finland. This song is from the album Soul Songs Vol. 3 released on 10th of October 2025.

Composed and performed by Heikki Hallanoro. Heikki Hallanoro plays over 100 years old piano. This characterful 19th century period instrument is like a mother elephant who has remembrance of her own.

Recorded 23rd of May 2023 at Wolfbeat Studios in Oulu, Finland
Engineered and mixed by Pentti Amore, a man of 3 gold albums in Finland. Producer of the most sold physical album of the year 2020 in Finland.
Mastered at Alho Audio Mastering by Jarno Alho.

Video is filmed in Oulu during the burning of Kekri goat. This thousands years old tradition celebrates the ending of harvest. The remembrance of the dead features heavily in traditional Kekri observances. Traditionally, each family invited the spirits of their deceased relatives to return during the Kekri feast. the head of the household welcomed the spirits in at the edge of his yard on the evening before the feast day. They were then led to the sauna, which had been heated and cleaned for their use. A table with votive offerings of meat and drink had also been placed there. On the evening after the feast day, the host ushered the spirits out of the yard while baring his head and pouring a libation of brandy and beer. On the second day of Kekri, people traditionally paid visits to friends and neighbors, dressed up as various types of masked characters, referred to as kekritärs (kekri-ess) or kekripukkis (kekri goat) (cf. souling).