My Music: Rautataivas
Jul 13, 2015 music
Composed by Esa Kaartamo. Original performed by Kim Lönnholm. This song came 4:th in the 1986 Finnish outtakes for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) or euroviisut as they are called in Finnish. The original version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVG4rXdzDo (not available in some countries).
My Music: Letter Home
Jul 13, 2015 music
Another politically inspired tune. War and conflicts through the history of mankind. All instruments played and performed in my own studio -samples recorded onsite all over Europe. No digital instruments used.
My Music: Breakfast with Angels
Apr 16, 2014 music
Loosely based on ideas in Bulgakovs ‘Master and Margarita’, this song is about the apparent ease between good and evil.
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My Music: Submariners
Apr 16, 2014 music
When it’s hot. And you’re at the bottom of the sea. And it’s getting hotter. And hotter. Then you need air.
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My Music: The Ghost of Tom Joad
Apr 16, 2014 music
This song is written and originally released by Bruce Springsteen in 1995 and re-released on his newest album called High Hopes. This is an alternate version, true to the original but adding a few instruments to make it stand out.
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My Music: Domino
Apr 16, 2014 music
This song is a tribute to Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd. Syd passed away in 2006 and I started work on this track shortly thereafter. I would like to thank Josef Ohlmer (@josef-ohlmer) for his excellent saxophone-playing and valuable input in 2013.
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My Music: Serenity (Parts 1-5)
Apr 16, 2014 music
pt 1. Serendipity
pt 2. Reality
pt 3. Serenity
pt 4. Apathy
pt 5. Clarity
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My Music: I Person
Apr 16, 2014 music
I Person is a story about humanity in a post-Asimovish world paraphrasing his work “I Robot” – with a twist. In this song, we realize that we need to take back humanity from The Machine and return it to where it belongs.
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My Music: Fear of Death Unsettles Me
Apr 15, 2014 music
This song is loosely based on the scottish poem “Lament for the Makaris” by William Dunbar (c.1460-c.1513) and the updated version of this poem by Joe Scanlan.
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My Music: Ordinary Day
Oct 23, 2009 music
This is an older song from 2007. The sound is not great, but quite a few people still like it so I decided to publish it here. A pretty straightforward acoustic songs, one of the first all-acoustic (well, it has an electric bass) songs I’ve made. The mixing is nothing unusual; mixing into groups with buscomp’s all over and a mastering compressor/limiter at the end. This one also uses the Aphex Compellor as a final comp, just before the Kjaerhus Limiter.
The song is about ordinary people, during an ordinary day, doing ordinary things. People like you and me.
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My Music: Fighterjets
Oct 6, 2009 music
Composed in 2009, this is a song that took 2 hours to compose and record and finish. It consists of three tracks: a synth, a harmonica and vocals. The harmonica is played thorugh a Northpole-filter for that unrecognizable sound.
Everything is squeezed together and crushed into a squarewave-like mastering using the TC X3 and a Kjaerhus MPL1-pro.
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My Music: Fire in the Hole
Sep 21, 2009 music
The term ‘fire in the hole’ means that something is about to explode. This song is really not the happiest among songs. Initially this was a test for my new AKG C-414 microphone. Composed, recorded and mixed in a few hours it was quite an awful piece of work. This weekend I took the time to do some more experimenting and as a result all of the guitar parts, except for the solos were re-recorded. I also redid the bass-parts and remixed the whole thing.
The guitars are now recorded using an AKG C-414 TL and an AKG C-391 (both a CK-91 and a CK-92 capsule was used) in an M/S-pattern. This gave a better and more natural sound to the guitars without the need to double. A few backing parts are recorded only using the C-391. I used the built-in preamps of the Motu 828 for recording the guitars.
C-414 and C-391 in an M/S position
The vocals are recorded using the C-414 using a Presonus Eureka with some moderate eq and compression. The vocals are processed using the Aphex 104 for more clarity as they are quite compressed in the mix. The vocals are using a Roland SRE-555 monodelay (rackmount RE-501).
The bass is recorded thru a Focusrite tonefactory with both buzz, fuzz and eq enabled. The tonefactory is good for bass really. The bass is postprocessed using an Aphex 104 “Big Bottom”.
All the percussions are recorded using the aforementioned mics.
Mixing was pretty straightforward and conventional. The vocals were sidechained to the guitars for more “visibility”. Vocals are, as usual, compressed to be in your face. Otherwise just the normal stuff, both UAD and PowerCore-plugins. Ask if interested in details.
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My Music: Rodeo Man
Aug 12, 2009 music
Composed in 2009, this tune was first made up of three acoustic tracks: vocals, guitar and percussions. Later it was spiced up with some whistling, backing vocals and a bassline. The most important addition though was the violin, played by my workmate Jani K. It added a more real country-feel to the whole thing. The percussions are played using some fruits and a dishbrush-bongo -combo.
This is a very straightforward acoustic mix with only acoustic instruments played live. Almost everything is tracked using the Presonus Evreka, except for the bass-guitar which is tracked using a Focusrite channelstrip. The mics used here are an AKG C-414 and an AKG C-391. The reverb is a Great British Spring -springreverb.
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