Iiris Viljanen is a young swedish/finnish artist. She has two different solo projects coming this year and each of them shines. She used to have a pop duo called Vasas flora och fauna. But when their critically acclaimed debut album was released last year, she decided to leave the duo and focus on her own projects. A single (”Årstavikens strand”) ,with an unique mix of Iiris rapping and singing in her swedish/finnish accent to her bare and sublime piano playing, turned up instead and was quickly praised and started a buzz around her in Sweden. And a solo album full of her vocal compositions will be released later this year. But this is something completely else. Karl Jonas Winqvist (artist, producer and founder of the new record label sing a song fighter) asked Iiris if she would consider making an instrumental solo piano album for him, since he has been a…
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