25: The Awkward Handshake (bonus track)
Rel. 22nd June 2020
tuomo.bandcamp.com/album/quaran...
This was the last song of the Quarantine Music series (not counting the couple of tracks that were left unfinished and unreleased but might still see daylight some day).
25: The Awkward Handshake (bonus track)
Rel. 22nd June 2020
tuomo.bandcamp.com/album/quaran...
This was the last song of the Quarantine Music series (not counting the couple of tracks that were left unfinished and unreleased but might still see daylight some day).
24: Don't hide your heart
(Rel. June 5th 2020)
The lyrics of this song have nothing to do with the pandemic and in a way that tells a lot about the pandemic situation in that moment.
24: Don't hide your heart
(Rel. June 5th 2020)
The lyrics of this song have nothing to do with the pandemic and in a way that tells a lot about the pandemic situation in that moment.
23: The New Normal
(rel. May 22nd 2020)
This was the last release of the main streak of the Quarantine Music project - there were a couple more songs in the pipeline, but they had to wait a couple of months.
23: The New Normal
(rel. May 22nd 2020)
This was the last release of the main streak of the Quarantine Music project - there were a couple more songs in the pipeline, but they had to wait a couple of months.
22: Lockdown party (w/ Tapio Backlund & HEINI IKONEN)
(rel. May 16th 2020)
I wanted to make a a P-Funk party track but it morphed into a house/eurodance track. Heini and Tapio both killing it as per usual.
22: Lockdown party (w/ Tapio Backlund & HEINI IKONEN)
(rel. May 16th 2020)
I wanted to make a a P-Funk party track but it morphed into a house/eurodance track. Heini and Tapio both killing it as per usual.
21: Taboo to love
(rel. May 14th 2020)
Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! I recorded this cover version of his stunning 'Taboo to love' for his 70th 5 years ago.
21: Taboo to love
(rel. May 14th 2020)
Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! I recorded this cover version of his stunning 'Taboo to love' for his 70th 5 years ago.
20 : See you on the other side w/ Emma Salokoski & Petteri Sariola
(Released Apr 30th 2020)
Cousin Petteri sent me a folksy guitar riff that somehow transformed into this late 90s 4heroesque jazzy dnb track.
20 : See you on the other side w/ Emma Salokoski & Petteri Sariola
(Released Apr 30th 2020)
Cousin Petteri sent me a folksy guitar riff that somehow transformed into this late 90s 4heroesque jazzy dnb track.
19 : Just another saturday
(released Apr 24th 2020)
This is my biggest "guilty pleasure" track from the project. I love making bass-heavy electronic beats for fun, even though I'm not really a club goer. I'd love to hear this from a proper sound system one day.
19 : Just another saturday
(released Apr 24th 2020)
This is my biggest "guilty pleasure" track from the project. I love making bass-heavy electronic beats for fun, even though I'm not really a club goer. I'd love to hear this from a proper sound system one day.
18 : Did you forget to be afraid today? w/Aarne Riikonen
(rel. Apr 20 2020)
I remember walking to my studio one morning, feeling the sun on my face - there's this certain feeling when, after a long winter...
18 : Did you forget to be afraid today? w/Aarne Riikonen
(rel. Apr 20 2020)
I remember walking to my studio one morning, feeling the sun on my face - there's this certain feeling when, after a long winter...
17 : Invisible
(released Apr 16th 2020)
This is one of the best songs I wrote for the Quarantine Music project. I still like to play it live. It's about "essential workers" and the respect they deserve but rarely get.
17 : Invisible
(released Apr 16th 2020)
This is one of the best songs I wrote for the Quarantine Music project. I still like to play it live. It's about "essential workers" and the respect they deserve but rarely get.
16: Cute Baristas w/Tommy Lindgren
(rel. Apr 14th 2020)
This was a banger. I’d had this silly rap verse & hook about my coffee habit lying around for years and I thought I’d probably never use it for anything, since a) I am not a rapper and b) I’m often a bit stingy…
16: Cute Baristas w/Tommy Lindgren
(rel. Apr 14th 2020)
This was a banger. I’d had this silly rap verse & hook about my coffee habit lying around for years and I thought I’d probably never use it for anything, since a) I am not a rapper and b) I’m often a bit stingy…
15 : Omnipresent (w/ Lauri Porra, Jarmo Saari, Eero Johannes)
(Rel Apr 9th 2020)
This was one of the more experimental tracks in the lot. I think I was going for an ”Aphex Twin doing Minneapolis Funk”-vibe or something. Wonderful contributions from the featured musicians.
15 : Omnipresent (w/ Lauri Porra, Jarmo Saari, Eero Johannes)
(Rel Apr 9th 2020)
This was one of the more experimental tracks in the lot. I think I was going for an ”Aphex Twin doing Minneapolis Funk”-vibe or something. Wonderful contributions from the featured musicians.
14 : Monday afternoon
(Released Apr 6th 2020)
Here’s another song that I included on the EP and has also become one I love to play live.
14 : Monday afternoon
(Released Apr 6th 2020)
Here’s another song that I included on the EP and has also become one I love to play live.
13 : Antibody (w/Jarmo Saari)
(released 4.4.2020)
We're getting into what I think was the creative peak of the Quarantine music project. 3 weeks and 13 songs deep, I was taking it a bit more seriously but still having a lot of fun with it.
13 : Antibody (w/Jarmo Saari)
(released 4.4.2020)
We're getting into what I think was the creative peak of the Quarantine music project. 3 weeks and 13 songs deep, I was taking it a bit more seriously but still having a lot of fun with it.
12: Aamuyö (w/ Jutta Rahmel, Heidi Paju )
(released Apr 2nd 2020)
This was one of those strange collaborative tracks that almost certainly wouldn't have happened under any other circumstances.
12: Aamuyö (w/ Jutta Rahmel, Heidi Paju )
(released Apr 2nd 2020)
This was one of those strange collaborative tracks that almost certainly wouldn't have happened under any other circumstances.
11: Solicitedly
Another song about touch or the lack thereof. I really really like the synths on this one.
11: Solicitedly
Another song about touch or the lack thereof. I really really like the synths on this one.
10 : Saturday night w/Mikko Pettinen
This started from a simple groove that I asked my old bandmate, trumpet master Mikko Pettinen to play on. The groove had an early 2000s neo soul vibe to it and Mikko brought a Roy Hargrovesque vibe to it.
10 : Saturday night w/Mikko Pettinen
This started from a simple groove that I asked my old bandmate, trumpet master Mikko Pettinen to play on. The groove had an early 2000s neo soul vibe to it and Mikko brought a Roy Hargrovesque vibe to it.
9: Mood Swings (w/ André Sumelius)
One of the most inspiring things about the Quarantine Music project was the spontaneous collabos. This was a fun one - the drummer André Sumelius, who lives in SF, said he has a drum recording set up in his home studio and he...
9: Mood Swings (w/ André Sumelius)
One of the most inspiring things about the Quarantine Music project was the spontaneous collabos. This was a fun one - the drummer André Sumelius, who lives in SF, said he has a drum recording set up in his home studio and he...
8 : Lil' Break feat. Bentality
After the deep-end melancholy of 'Isolation' I went pretty much to the opposite end with this uplifting boogie track with nods to George Clinton and the Tom Tom Club. Also had a little De La-vibe.
8 : Lil' Break feat. Bentality
After the deep-end melancholy of 'Isolation' I went pretty much to the opposite end with this uplifting boogie track with nods to George Clinton and the Tom Tom Club. Also had a little De La-vibe.
7 : Isolation
This melancholy piece was based on a beat I'd made on the MPC earlier, chopping up some acoustic guitar i sampled off an old prog rock record. It has a trip hop vibe and a lot of Moog One moodiness.
7 : Isolation
This melancholy piece was based on a beat I'd made on the MPC earlier, chopping up some acoustic guitar i sampled off an old prog rock record. It has a trip hop vibe and a lot of Moog One moodiness.
6 : Space Virus
This was the first collaborative effort in the Quarantine Music series. The incomparable Jazz Kuramatto aka Jussi Miettola sent me a bunch of weird recordings of him jamming on the drums with some circuit bent keyboards.
6 : Space Virus
This was the first collaborative effort in the Quarantine Music series. The incomparable Jazz Kuramatto aka Jussi Miettola sent me a bunch of weird recordings of him jamming on the drums with some circuit bent keyboards.
5 : Fear Not
Another old song with a title that felt newly relevant in 2020. At this point my Quarantine music project was really picking up speed and I was recording and mixing a song a day at best. It's weird how fast you can work if you focus on it completely.
5 : Fear Not
Another old song with a title that felt newly relevant in 2020. At this point my Quarantine music project was really picking up speed and I was recording and mixing a song a day at best. It's weird how fast you can work if you focus on it completely.
4 : A Touch Is a Promise
After the Bruce-cover I decided to go vault digging through my own songs and recovered this little funky ditty I'd written somewhere back in 2010 maybe. It felt thematically appropriate, since it also has the word 'touch' in the title.
4 : A Touch Is a Promise
After the Bruce-cover I decided to go vault digging through my own songs and recovered this little funky ditty I'd written somewhere back in 2010 maybe. It felt thematically appropriate, since it also has the word 'touch' in the title.
3 : Human touch
The strangeness of social distancing had me thinking a lot about the importance of the proximity of other people. This Bruce Springsteen song popped into my head.
3 : Human touch
The strangeness of social distancing had me thinking a lot about the importance of the proximity of other people. This Bruce Springsteen song popped into my head.