I’ve never quite understood what makes some tunes new age music…

Is it the unbridled optimism? Smooth & relaxing sounds? City slicker spirituality? Does it’s composer need to wear a hippie shirt and do yoga?

Well, I only do normal stretching and my shirt is black, but some of the conditions I mentioned are certainly fulfilled in CROSSWIND THINKER.

Unfortunately, we got no “new age music”-category. Shoot!

I’ll just call it cinematic then. Closing your eyes while listening makes it true.

Let’s get onomatopoetic. We got cause of the sound, english word for it and finally its finnish counterpart.

Sneeze: Achoo – Ätsihh.
Lion: Roar – Mur.
Snoring: Zzz – Krooh pyyh.
Cow: Moo – Ammuu.
Water: Drip drop – Tip tip.
Crash: Boom – Pum.
Fart: Poot – Prööt.

Those are some of the common ones. But how do you english speakers write “buu-du”? You know, the thing baritone saxophone constantly plays in THREE MAGIC SLIPPERS?

The art of avoiding is a wonderful term from arranger Russell Garcia. The term is all the things you end up doing, when you really should be doing something else.

I’m sure many of you can relate to that.

I was just avoiding writing this post by shaving. Then it struck me: Why not write the post about this. Avoiding, not shaving.

Then I called my father to check if it was Russell Garcia who came up with the term, not George Russell. Garcia allright.

Then I felt a bit peckish and made a smoothie. Banana, blackcurrants and yogurt. Yummy.

At this point, this whole post was already clear in my head. All I had to do was to sit down and type it down.

That was some pretty good avoiding, I must say. And I made the whole post through without mentioning LULUS PETALS. Attaboy.

Tunes doesn’t get much simpler than THE OLD MAN AND THE BEARD. We got one fella playing one acoustic guitar playing some blues.

Aaand I’m out.

Today let’s take a peek of a category “it’s supposed to be ethnic, but because I’m not an expert of traditional Arabic music, I just do something and hope that it’s gonna be allright”.

A little déjà-vu here.

The spark for the tune came from a book titled “Salt: A World History ” by Mark Kurlansky. A great friggin book! Salt rocks!

From the dawn of civilization: SALT ROAD. Yeah, you know what I’m referring to… How original!

Faces. Really ugly ones.

Mechanical hypnotism. Organic pacemakers. Computers built of plant fibre.

After hitting the sack, before getting through the wall of sleep, the mist creeps in, taking MANY SHAPES OF DREAM MATTER.

Subject Alpha

Genre: Heavy duty rock metal
Era: Early 1980’s
Overall mood: Drivin’ fast straight forward
Working title: Drivin’ fast

Subject Beta

Build drumtrack. Quality cardboard box kit.
Do your best Dee Dee Ramone impression with a bass.
Add guitar with very dry Marshall amp sounds. Double ’em.
“Hmm, the texture isn’t quite as thick as I was hoping.”
Add some organ.
Smile relentlessly.

Subject 1.0

Do some soloing. Pinch those harmonics like you’ve never pinched ’em before!
Polish, finish, mix, master, etc.
Get sad when reading about Lemmy’s voyage to a different plane of existance.
Name the tune as IRON ROBIN.
Have a nice cup of tea. Lemon & ginger.

There’s no better time to put out STAR SURGE SPACE PURGE than at the brink of new year. ‘Cos we got excitement, cool trajectories & colorful explosions!

It’s got some vocoder, which is always fun. The lyrics may be a bit difficult to hear. I went after a nice burbing sound, rather than a clean pronunciation. So, here’s some clues about the lyrics:

There’s 4 words being sung. 3 out of 4 words start with a letter S.

Got it?

Good.

Happy new year.

Theremin is an instrument which is strongly associated with spooky soundscapes:

Sounds of thunder & lightning followed by a very threatening orchestral bang. When opening credits and the movies title “The revenge of the curse” roll in, so does the theremin. All in black & white, of course.

Yet there is another way. This time the way leads, instead of a haunted house or a mad scientists lab, for the path to enlightment.

About the title HARIS CIDNEE… You know the feeling when you wake up in the morning and a pair of – apparently – nonsensical words are swirling in your brain?

Montage is a fine word. Rolls right off your tongue.

I also kinda like junction.

My favourite in english language is definately spatula. In about four hours I’ll be cooking onions, red peppers & miscellaneous vegetables, and doing some spatuling.

Before that, I gotta do the laundry, stretch and walk the dog if I had one.

MONTAGE OF DAILY ROUTINES for ya.