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.

For a person that doesn’t particulary like reggae, I seem to deal with that kind of rhythms surprisingly often.

Not that I particulary dislike reggae… It’s just that, it’s the same groove and mood all over again… You know… One song is fine, two is meh and three’s way too many.

Anywaaay, only slightly annoying, semi-reggae of the day: SUMMER CAMP TALENT SHOW.

Since it’s almost december, I think it’s appropriate to put out some christmas music. Dear world, can you please not to stuff all that x-massy stuff to my face in october!

Last year we went with a tune, that was like a picturesque wintery post card with a text “greetings from Finland”. This time we’re about just as traditional, only in a merrier way.

TOMTE TROUPE TRILL is those creepy christmas elves stalking behind our windows. You know, spying us, writing down who’s been good, bad or ugly.

Merry listening.

Umm, there’s very little to say about PIGSY GOES TO TOWN. It’s another silly little tune named after some animal.

I guess I like silliness & animals.

Absolute music means music, that’s about nothing. It doesn’t depict any event, emotion or object. Just melodies, harmonies, cadences, parts and what not. Interpreting the result is up to the listener.

If you come across to a musical piece titled something like: “Violin concert op. 14 in Gb major” by Ernst Von Hubbels, that would be a fine example of absolute music.

I’ve always avoided naming my tunes like that, although I like the idea of not forcing my thoughts for the listener. Just a habit I guess.

I had already completed the work in question when I came up with the expression THE LAST THANK YOU. And no, I have no idea whats that about. So there’s my almost absolute music for ye.

Q: How to make music sound old in a good way?

A: Easy. Use old equipment.

Q: How to make music sound old in a good way, without a hangar full of dusty & barely functional recording gear?

A: Well…

KERNEL HEART is an experiment in the field of “vintagezation”, trying to make a tune sound like it was recorded ages ago.