"Ilari Laakso's compositions for piano and soprano, interpreted by pianist Anna Laakso and soprano Pia Freund. The compositions in the publication explore the meanings of family, transience and language. ""Poetry is the closest kind of literature to me. Crystallizing thoughts and emotional states into a few words and groups of words is a skill sui generis,"" states Ilari Laakso. The narrator of the publication's title track - Jam Pot - the teller polishes the jam pot he inherited and sees the faces of his relatives as a mirror on its surface. Poet Chrys Salt's text beautifully supports Laakso's impulsive and reactive melodic lines, and the poet herself participates in the song's improvised sprechstimme parts with Anna Laakso and Pia Freund. The release also includes Laakso's earlier song series Writing These Poems composed to Salt's poem. The opening song of the release, Villa, was composed by Ilari Laakso for his daughter Anna Laakso. The second piano composition of the release, Beyond, vibrates between the subtle invisible and the noisy visible. The release ends with the song series I don't know when the ice has left. The piece is composed to the poems of the composer's sister Ritva Pärssisen, who had MSA, which she wrote around the time of the siblings' father's death in 1990. The subtitle of the song series is Canzoni domestici."