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Multi-artist and Artist

- how did it all start?

“She captures the inner essence of nature and takes it further into a personal dialogue with places in the city. She creates a live experience that is hard to resist.” – Textival Gothenburg

Nadja Itäsaari started as a vocalist and wrote her own songs already during high school in Angered. Nowadays, she is an experienced producer and performer who regularly plays live. She has been active on the Gothenburg scene since 2008 in several bands and constellations, including: the Latin band Lecheburre Latinflow , the progressive indie band A Cup of Coffee and a Lovesong (ACOCAALS), the feminist trance duo SheTrance and the performance trio The Soft Revolution of Goth Punk Poetry .

In total, Nadja Itäsaari has released five albums, two of which she produced solo. In addition to this, she has, since 2020, produced and released ten singles with accompanying music videos under the name Nadja Itäsaari. She swims from genre to genre and splashes around in several different oceans: folk & world-music , rock, pop, jazz & blues, songwriting & singer-songwriter.  Genre fluid  is the term she created herself, to best describe the the width of everything she does.


Nadja Itäsaari is also an educated cultural project manager and has worked for gender equality in music production in the non-profit organisation EQLovesMusic and EQLovesFestival 2019-2021. She is also one of several project managers within the organisation and network Poesiwerken , where she arranges events such as Klubb LäsBar - open stage occasions  for poetry, impro and performance art, and is responsible for sound technology and visual marketing material.

 

In addition to this, Nadja has since childhood worked with crafts of various kinds, textile, image, form and jewelry art. Right now, she is studying Artistic approaches in Arts and Crafts at HDK Valand (The University of Gothenburg). In addition to this, she has also studied photography at Mullsjö Folkhögskola and has worked with photography and moving image that weave together everything she creates.

 

Get in touch for bookings and collaborations:

booking.nadjaitasaari@gmail.com

Nadja Itäsaari - Känna Igen (Official Video)
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Nadja Itäsaari - Känna Igen (Official Video)

Känna Igen (Feel Again) is a song about the fear of not feeling again – yet a balladlike hymn to cradle supressed emotions – and allow feelings. At some point in life it’s unavoidable to meet emotional turmoil and sadness. But I think that If we choose to accept, listen inside and feel what we really feel. Maybe say it or sing it out loud. We might, in an unknown point of time, find ourselves in the opposite of what we just felt. Those little or big moments makes a huge difference to us as beings on this earth. At least in the long run is what I believe. - Says Nadja Känna Igen (To Feel Again) is originally written by Nadja Itäsaari - remembering the feeling of what life felt like before her sobriety in 2020. She wrote the song as a blend of Swedish ”Visa” (a song with lyrics in focus) and classical RnB. Axel Olsson got the task in 2023 to write piano for the song, due to his primary love for both visa and old school RnB Music. Axel and Nadja, who also were classmates and has since remained friends since upper secondary school 2002-2005, both share a mutual love for both genres. So when the song was rehearsed enough, they singlehandedly recorded it at Klangverket in 2024. Amongst the instruments on the recording you can hear the Electric reed Organ, Organa 30 that they borrowed while recording at Klangverket Music/Room. The Hohner Organa were distributed in various versions between about 1950 and 1970. The lyrics are edited by Gårdaprofilen to reach maximal emotional depth in 2023. The song is mixed by Nadja and Anneli Rosvall. Rosvall has also carefully mastered the song to bring out depth in both lyrics and backing Instrumentation. Piano, Organ, Coprod and Synthesizers: Axel Olsson @Jad3dJane Lyric Edit: @gardaprofilen (Fred Lindgren) Mix, Filming and Mastering: Anneli Sorkii Rosvall Mix, production, vocals, lyrics, music, filming accompaniying material, video edit, and makeup: Nadja Itäsaari @nadjaitasaariofficial1111 Nadja Itäsaari is a songwriter, producer, poet and multi-artist based in Gothenburg. The vision is to create live experiences where the mix of music, poetry, performance art and moving image draws the audience into intense audiovisual landscapes with humor constantly present. Her biggest sources of inspiration are extreme weather, birdsong, animals/nature, imagination, art and human psychology. Sea and forest collide with everyday concrete house views. Homesite: https://www.nadjaitasaari.com/en Link to preferred social platform: https://orcd.co/m1jnavj ​​Lyrics: Tog på mig kostymen med hela natthimlen på om solens stålar skulle nå den var jag nog hemma igen, nattens tystnad, omkring min säng Efter allt dunder och brak Känns allt starkare Allt vackrare om en för en stund Tills att dagen den byts av till natt igen jag vaknar, här finns inga skratt här finns ingen vän I ensamheten känns nog tystnaden som svårast och den ekar, mellan väggar och alla tömda glas minns inte hur många, spelar ingen roll va? jag måste ta mig ut.. Tänk om jag aldrig får känna igen tänk om jag aldrig, aldrig Får känna nått igen Tänk om livet dom nämnde, bara var skuggor och regn Tänk om jag aldrig, aldrig får känna igen Får känna nått igen Dagen den vandrar, oh så dimmig och vag sen kommer natten, sen nästa dag Jag vaknar i tysthet. inga skratt här ingen vän tystnaden e nog svårast och den bor här i mitt hem mellan väggar och tak alla tömda glas och din vilja så slak Mina tankar som nålar, jag måste ta mig ut. Jag söker och söker ett avsked ett slut. Jag måste ta mig ut.. Tänk om jag aldrig får känna igen tänk om jag aldrig, aldrig får känna igen tänk om livet dom nämnde bara var skuggor och regn. Tänk om jag aldrig, aldrig får känna igen. får känna nått igen ©Nadja Itäsaari Productions 2024
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Playlists

On Spotify and YouTube there are playlists with everything Nadja Itäsaari participates in or created herself. You are welcome to listen, follow, like and comment on these channels.

💜 Thank you so much! 💜

- Enbart Lyssning Spotify -

- Enbart Lyssning YouTube -

- Lyssna&Kolla YouTube -

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