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.Thursday, February 2, 2012
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.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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.
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.
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