"The fascinating Finnish psychedelic free folk scene is continually morphing, and Kuupuu (aka Jonna Karanka) is currently one of the movement's darkest stars."
Edwin Pouncey / The Wire 278
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"Jonna Karanka is uniquely imaginitive and mesmerizingly inquisitive sound- and songmaker. It is never possible to say if she is following a vision or just taps along to what is coming from her unconscious. Probably both. Her songs and tracks are dreamlike, of an eerie beauty and seem to work out of themselves with ease. I have no other ways to describe this mystery than in equally mysterious terms. With everything that is psychedelic in the true sense of the word, and not the hippy-trodden term that denounces longwinded guitar solos without energy, description is hard. Listen for yourself and you’ll see what I mean." Cracked Review February 2007
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"Kuupuu is the work of Jonna Karanka, who has spent time in Avarus and The Anaksimandros, and her self-released solo outing Kulta Sulka is one of the many gems to hail from the Finnish scene. Her sound kaleidoscopes indicate a tenuous grip on the art of songwriting, often meandering into eerie loops of breathy woodwinds trapped in cyclonic infinitude, or murky collages distorted with cheaply rendered, sci-fi laser pings. Yet Karanka's dreamily cracked songs are her strenght, and they ache with the melancholy of the best acid folk chanteuses the 70s had to offer."
Jim Haynes The Wire 268
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