A Tall Moonflower radio set available for download

Available for a limited amount of time my set for Maxin Ryzhkov's A Tall Moonflower show on Proton Radio (http://www.protonradio.com/show.php?showid=556). Including a lot of old tracks, some even slightly edited.

Edit: Download is offline (most of the songs can be found from http://latvamaki.bandcamp.com)

01. Artificial Latvamäki - (Song to the) Machine That Built The Sun [edit]
02. Artificial Latvamäki - Se Tuli Aavikolta [edit]
03. Artificial Latvamäki - Really Broken Up and Built Again
04. Aki Latvamäki - A Bath Tub of Full Mutated Bees
05. Artificial Latvamäki - Konstaapelin Ajan Juoksu Yöllä
06. Artificial Latvamäki - Äkta Smak och Sprödhet
07. Artificial Latvamäki - Diana Next Door
08. Artificial Latvamäki feat. Eini Pesälä - Kun Minä Unohduin ja Se Olitkin Sinä

Music Video for "We Had Our Good Moments"

Today I was pondering really hard how should I promote my music. I hate promotion. I don't like pushing my stuff to anyone. Why cannot it do it by itself? Well. I was angsting for a while and got this idea for a music video where nothing would happen. Kind of the music video for slow living people. Have you heard of slow traveling? That was the initial thought. Then I saw these ice crystals in the porch window (see picture). I really wanted to film those. And the opposite of them. Fire. Sauna! Yep, that's the story. And here is the video.

Jäkälä, Album #2 out now

My second album "Artificial Latvamäki - Jäkälä" got finished today. It was a long process. These songs have seen a lot. Use the player below to listen to it or go to http://latvamaki.bandcamp.com

The album is out there on "pay what you want" basis. Feel free to pay nothing for I am truly honored if you enjoy the music and share it with your friends, that's enough for me.



Here's what I wrote about it.

Back in 2009 when I started working with my debut album, I noticed that I have too many songs to release just one album, so I divided them into two different groups with different styles. Jäkälä (Lichen) is the follow-up album to 2011 released album Rauta. Featuring 6 tracks with more organic approach to electronic music where Rauta (iron) was more synthesized and industrial in some way.

Most of these songs have traveled a long road with me. Some have started their journey over seven years ago. At some points along the process I thought they never see the light of day and reach the ears of the listeners. Fortunately some of them were leaked out unfinished to the internet many years ago, and I received a lot of feedback about them. This feedback was a driving force for me in my aim to cross the finishing line and apply the finishing touches to the music.

However, I didn't feel like polishing the music endlessly. In the process of mixing and mastering them I had to constantly revert to versions which dated many years back, just because they were much more original and intuitive in their unprocessed form. I had to find a balance of rawness in every track. While listening, you will find instruments and sounds that are clearly bit too loud or unnecessarily harsh. This is something I have preserved. It makes the songs play out more dangerously and unexpectedly and as such they much better serve their purpose of being mirrors into my soul.