Made the delivery of Chapter One’s “Last Letter” to the digistores and streaming services. It should be available in a week. This is the first single, the rest of “One” will follow shortly.
Building them studios…
I’ve been making some changes to my two studio rooms: Upgraded the HD|3 to HD-X, bought one of the last available MacPro’s (12 core) and made the oldest MacPro into a synthesizer (Logic running Komplete, Omnisphere, Trilian, EastWest Orchestra, Albino, Stylus RMX and Logic’s own EXS, Sculpture etc). I also switched the smaller unit the other way around, it feels much more spacious that way. I managed to put up both acoustic and electronic kits, acoustic piano and still have enough space for at least 2 people. And yes, I bought a subwoofer for the smaller room so I now have 5.1 monitoring in both rooms.
Workingworking…
• Went to Nurmes, recorded 18 Alpha Indigo songs in 2 days. Lugged my pre’s and mics and cables and…Boy was that a heavy load ;-). We took one day for the forthcoming SSTB (“Samsara sings the blues”) project as well and prepared demos for the songs (11 songs, ac gtr, el pno + voc). Planned to record the backing tracks just by the two of us.
• Finalized the longest-in-the-making Walo’s CD with Speedy Saarinen. We took a few days and went through the songs and fine tuned them.
• Spent a few days with Teijo and Riikka (Alpha Indigo) doing vocals for their CD, did all 18 songs in 2 days…;-). + 1, Walking Wounded as an unplugged version. Few tough but satisfactory days there. Next I’ll edit the vocals and Teijo will do some guitar fixes. After percussions and backing vocals we should be ready for mixing…
Trails of mist
The second Sam Marsala CD, Trails of Mist was delivered to my door step yesterday…It sounds and looks beautiful. Here’s what Sam has to say about it:
” This second outing is somewhat different from ‘Scapes & Tracks, which was basically quite a normal collection of songs. This time the journey began with discussions with Tiina, who does reiki healing among her other activities. She wasn’t too happy with the music available. This got us thinking…So, we’ve gone and made one really long centerpiece called “Trails of mist” that curls and twists around and takes us to a journey to the inner realms of Marsalaland. The two other songs embrace it from both sides easing You into the flow.
These songs give You time; time to ponder, to relax and slow down. Or You can do the dishes to them if You will…”
Tiina kicked me into gear and Jani helped once again with the cover art. Thanks!
The CD is available from Tiina’s webshop @ juniperi.fi. Digital version can be found from iTunes, Spotify etc.
Felt like spring the other day…
Hi there! It’s snowing again. Hopefully one of the last times this year…
I’ve just been coping with the winter and the darkness. Even though I’m not prone to depression or anything like that, the long winter months take their toll. Some things have been done though: We’ve managed to make a few new songs with FlipSide, the long-in-the-making Antero Raimo & Ovet CD is ready and I’ve begun preparing for my next solo venture “Samsara sings the blues” (Planning to go to Nurmes to meet T and check out the songs). I’ll do some recording of Alpha Indigo while there. And yes, spring will be here soon….
Been busy…
Hi!
Been quite busy these last months. Mixed 4 movies (Kaappari, Juoppohullun Päiväkirja, Robin – the movie & Metsän Tarina), finalized the second Sam Marsala release (Trails of mist), released Liquid Wolf : First Light, helped Teijo with Alpha Indigo mixes + all sort of other things. FlipSide’s first ep is almost ready. Trying to continue updating the pages of this site ASAP…
So far…
Hi there!
Here’s an update of current status (as of today):
– All menus I can think of are made, all have some info. Did I miss something relevant?
– Waiting for pictures of Red, Jone, Caramba (Got some from Jaakko and Tomi, great!). Hoping for pictures of PMF, Uima-allas & Epitaph/Sibbe, quite skeptic though. Audio from PMF would be a real treat.
– Music all transfered from analog & digital sources, roughly 16 hours.
– Mastered audio for Basement Boys/Nameless, Caramba, Leroy, Epitaph and Sibbe. Chapter One partly done. Spotify selections here & there
– Uploaded all Kataya making of videos (1 x Canto Obscura, 3 x Voyager, 1 x Tilburg). Will do excerpts from Liberte (release of Canto Obscura) and Belly (release of Voyager). Will upload KuDoS “From the Ground Up” and excerpts of Live @ Rekolan Kino. Found a video of Chapter One from Tavastia. Will include parts of it.
Next on the agenda: mastering Jone and Red. Plenty of material from both, not all so flattering…
More text where needed. Individual headers for the bands (see PS. Onni)
Will go public with this only when it’s quite done, let’s say 85%.
The Agenda
is as follows: I’m going to document and gather all relevant data from my careers as a music person and as an audio post person. This includes material that can be heard and/or seen from most of the projects I’ve involved myself in. I will focus mainly on the less documented material, so there might be a few excerpts from the movies and commercials I’ve worked on but not too many, those can be found elsewhere. So far I’ve managed to make the first versions of music and audio post CV’s (see the menus above). The plan is to locate and transfer, clean up & fix material from the bands etc I’ve played in be it music or making of’s or…and present them to You for your pleasure 😉
PS. If You have any pertinent material at your possession, please let me know…
Trying to make sense…
Hi! I’m starting this blog to try to make sense of my varied interests. At the moment, I’m pretty deep in FlipSide, my newest band with Tipi Pulkkinen and Ari Hujanen, my old mates from the 80’s. But before I delve into FlipSide, let me shed some light into my past….
Well hello…
This is my first attempt to make sense of my varied interests and activities….Lessee…