{"id":3594060,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594060/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-21T15:00:30-08:00","show":65439,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65439/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"There Used to Be a Darkness","track_id":null,"recording_id":"77a049d0-711d-4844-a7b5-4fd3149cdc36","artist":"Mikko Joensuu","artist_ids":["1879f99d-e3fe-4013-9fb4-1ffd68b3e33f"],"album":"Amen 2","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"4d9517a1-b0b9-4c4e-be54-30185516dda1","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2016-11-11","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Happy Solistice!!!\n\nNow based in Helsinki, Finland, Joensuu was born in 1986 in the town of Alajärvi. \"[Amen 2] is about relief, forgiveness and letting go. Some years ago I went through a period of deep anxiety and depression. Amen 1 was dwelling a lot on these feelings and ideas. I wrote the songs on Amen 2 at a time when I first started to feel that this period was maybe coming, or already had come to an end.\n\n\"It was also at those times when I realised that my lifelong companionship with God came to a conclusion that He, who once meant everything to me, no longer existed. These were the core ideas how Amen 2 came to be.\" http://bit.ly/2ovAoNb\n\nMore from this incredible artist here: https://mikkojoensuu.bandcamp.com/\n\nListen for the major-to-minor shift in this epic song; it's stealthy, but gorgeously done, and hearkens a dreamy whole shift in the song.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}