Supernatural by Wild Anima

Supernatural is a concept album inspired by the Finnish wilderness and explores how we can mend our broken parts through inner photosynthesis. Diving into the link between light, plants and our sensuality. The creative and production process of this album took shape between Finland and Berlin between summer 2019 and winter 2021.

Artist statement
This album is an exploration of the connection between nature, the body and tenderness. A lot of inspiration came from my experience with the trees in the woodlands of Finland. I felt a deep connection with them while spending time in the forest, I could almost hear them talk and a lot of the lyrics from the record feel like they were whispered to me by the trees.
I was very inspired by the sauna culture as well, being with naked bodies in the very intense heat, the steam, the smell and closeness. It felt like being in the womb of the Earth.

I came up with the name Supernatural also as a way to describe my feeling of going through the pandemic. I feel that supernatural is what I have become, a sort of superhero human that has surpassed the boundaries of the natural as a means of extreme emotional survival. And on a bigger scale I feel that is what we are all becoming as a collective, finding our own ways to cope with the hardships we’ve all faced in one way or another.
This feels important for me to share right now because I feel that our society and human collective truly need tenderness and a sense of warmth. Although isolation has led to a need for more connection, the hardships we’ve all gone through have also stiffened some of our emotional states.

A lot of the tracks are about the warmth we all long for. I have this vision that instead of turning our hearts into stone from life’s hurts and struggles, we can transform into trees. When I was out in the forest I had this thought that trees are like humans of the future.
I like to think of this metaphor with the Japanese craft of kintsugi, the art of mending broken objects with gold, the light within can mend our wounds. It is like a conduit towards mending the loopholes of our emotional bodies. Becoming more than natural. Digging so deeply in our abilities of survival and sustainability that our senses and human capacities almost implode and become a superpower. A bit like diamonds are formed under tremendously high pressures of heat to become the strongest and most unbreakable material that exists in the world. Our hearts can become this diamond. This primal energy that is found in volcanoes is also found in our bodies. That warmth is the source of our sustainability and our deepest nourishment. It lies in the power of tenderness.

I like this paradox that softness can be very powerful and tenderness a great tool for transformation. In that warmth we connect with our sensuality and its creative power. Embodying our sensuality is like an homage to existence, when we can allow ourselves to express it in whichever way we feel, it is like a love letter sent to the cosmos and a recognition of our innate divine nature.

This sense of warmth has been a great teacher for me this whole time on how to find self love. I believe that by deeply connecting with ourselves with tenderness and patience we are able to evolve and develop parts of us that reveal our deepest expression of who we are. And in a sense this feels very important in building a more sustainable society.

Wild Anima is the wild soul, the raw state of nature sleeping inside all of us. The intimate part of our living essence.

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