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Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.
Interviewer: "There is a song on the record called "66,50'N, 28,40'E". The coordinates apparently point to a roundabout in Salla (a town in Lapland, Finland)?"
Kotamäki: "Well, that's an important place for Raivio (the lyricist). An inside thing. Not much more to be told about that."
Jämsen: "As a matter of fact, I don't really know anything about that whole roundabout thing either. Raivio doesn't really speak about his subjects. Unlike us, but we need a lot of alcohol in our blood for that!"
TL;DR: the coordinates point to a roundabout in Lapland, Finland. Probably a special place for the songwriter.
"The first years of my life I lived in Lapland, very high up North in Finland. I wrote this song remembering the deadly cold winters that felt like needles in your face and the never ending dark, dancing northern lights in the skies and again never ending light at the summer times, a truly magical place called Salla. I remember writing this song and for some reason seeing those landscapes from my childhood clearly through the eyes of an eagle. So I wanted to capture this flying emotion in this song.
It is strange how the first years of your life have been carved so deep into your soul.
-j-"
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There is an interview on Internet (written in Finnish, https://www.google.com/amp/s/metalliluola.fi/swallow_the_sun_haastattelu/amp/), where the singer of the band, Mikko Kotamäki speaks about this piece for a few sentences alongside the band's former guitarist Markus Jämsen. This is a rough translation.
Interviewer: "There is a song on the record called "66,50'N, 28,40'E". The coordinates apparently point to a roundabout in Salla (a town in Lapland, Finland)?"
Kotamäki: "Well, that's an important place for Raivio (the lyricist). An inside thing. Not much more to be told about that."
Jämsen: "As a matter of fact, I don't really know anything about that whole roundabout thing either. Raivio doesn't really speak about his subjects. Unlike us, but we need a lot of alcohol in our blood for that!"
TL;DR: the coordinates point to a roundabout in Lapland, Finland. Probably a special place for the songwriter.
Juha made a post on his Facebook account regarding this instrumental in 2021: https://www.facebook.com/juha.raivio.official/posts/the-first-years-of-my-life-i-lived-in-lapland-very-high-up-north-in-finland-i-wr/236697361605250/
Contents of post:
"The first years of my life I lived in Lapland, very high up North in Finland. I wrote this song remembering the deadly cold winters that felt like needles in your face and the never ending dark, dancing northern lights in the skies and again never ending light at the summer times, a truly magical place called Salla. I remember writing this song and for some reason seeing those landscapes from my childhood clearly through the eyes of an eagle. So I wanted to capture this flying emotion in this song.
It is strange how the first years of your life have been carved so deep into your soul.
-j-"