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An elusive legend that Jon Blåhed manages to land in reality. Many have tried to stage this story but most of them have come up empty-handed. The first major publication came in 1969 with Henning and Ernst Sjöström's book "Silverarken". Where shameless indulgence took all the place. Fiction more than fact. Twenty years later, the priest and author Bengt Pohjanen put everything right with his fantastic "Dagning röd". A lush and abundant narrative that Jon Blåhed's film is based on. The book was adapted to the stage in 1993 by Peter Oskarsson. Which resulted in a completely lifeless mass. Agneta Fagerström-Olsson and John O. Olsson tried to turn this project into a film without success. The theatre collective Institutet in Vitsaniemi recreated the Korpela movement as a black metal rock concert in 2021. But it's an elusive legend that's easy to get lost in. Jon Blåhed chose one track that was essentially the source, Pojhanen's Book, and he got it right. The film benefits immensely from the fact that Meänkieli and Finnish are spoken. The people in power, on the other hand, speak Swedish.

This series presents a very different way of reporting on crime with a focus on female perpetrators and victims. It deals basically with crimes that affects individuals, like robberies, fraud and sexual exploitation. The victims' views, situation and condition after the crime is seriously dealt with. All crimes featured in the series do so from another more personal perspective. This applies to both traumatized victims, frustrated police officers, square lawyers and responsible officials. Crimes against children are also featured in a different way that omits further speculation of the actual abuse.

This reticent and rather defensive teller of dark tales we would not always want to appear in has left behind a handful of unique recordings and fine compositions. Maybe his debut album was remarkable. But I failed to notice him back then. To me "World Without End" (2006) with John Murry, Jim Dickinsons and Nate Cavalieri's soundscape, along with recordist/mixer/producer Tim Mooney is the absolute record to never forget.

Born and raised in East Memphis, Bob Frank came into the marketplace in the late spring of 1972, a folksy curio in an era of singer-songwriter self-absorption. Frank spent many a stoned evening staggering alone through the mid-south urban gothic landscape of church steps and sleaze bars with his guitar glued to his arm, if not an actual extension of it. Songs would emerge from dreams or drunken visions.