The reinterpretation of Popcaan’s dancehall hit “Everything Nice” by TSF’14 alumni Jaakko Eino Kalevi got under our skin in the best possible way. This was partly in thanks to Kari Jahnsen, whose sprightly voice engaged the chronically relaxed baritone of the Finnish tram driver in a duet for the occasion. Although she’d been a new discovery for us, Jahnsen has long worked on her own version of contemporary pop music under the name Farao. The Norwegian grew up in Ulnes, a town of five hundred, and has settled in Berlin by way of London and Reykjavik. On her debut “Till It’s All Forgotten”, the fruit of a collaboration with the producer Mike Lindsay of Tunng, Jahnsen played every instrument save for brass and drums in an opulently orchestrated scoring. Polished songwriting, idiosyncratic arrangements, mystically spun emotionality, and the gravitational pull of the “big hit” are all (not untypically Nordic) disciplines that Farao calls home. Her songs deal, among other things, with anxiety—for one thing, the experience of “surrendering to bad decisions and consciously going down the wrong path”, as Jahnsen herself describes it. In the video for Jahnsen’s track “The Bodies”, this ominous sense of drifting is supported by haunting images.