Jaakko Eino Kalevi releases new single, “Hell & Heaven”

The track was written with the livewire Faux Real brothers, AKA Elliott and Virgile Arndt.

“I sent a drum track to the Faux Real boys and asked them to make a song out of it,” Kalevi comments. “It was only drums but somehow they understood the vibe completely. This song feels to me like some kind of gothic Abba pop song. Also, it needed dramatic lyrics so I went biblical. It is the most biblical song I have ever written.”

Filmed in a derelict 1960s fairytale castle on the west coast of Greece and directed by Kalevi’s frequent collaborator Frank Holbein, the video for “Hell & Heaven” follows him as he enters another world, taunted by the Faux Real brothers playing angel and demon characters, whispering advice in his ear and finishing his sentences.

"’Hell & Heaven’ is a very intense baroque-pop song. In my mind it demanded a video that would be shot in a castle,” he explains. “Even in heaven you might bring your own hell, and vice versa."