I recorded it at my parents summer cabin around midsummer.
Thanks to everyone who has been going back and listening to these songs with me ❤️

Who knows how deep we have to dig before we re-emerge from under the rubble. Musically the song was mostly inspired by Scott Walker and Isao Tomita’s version of Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe.

The bulk of the material in this project still resides on Bandcamp only - including The Awkward Handshake, which I wrote as a sort of goodbye to the pandemic era. Of course the pandemic era kept returning for the next couple of years and sadly we are still dealing with the aftermath.

I released it together as a Bandcamp only bonus track to the Quarantine music EP - a collection of 5 favourite songs that I released in a more ”official” way so you can listen to them on all the streaming services.

This is a song that I'm really happy with and love to play live. Check it out at the 25 minute mark (features my most epic synth solo)

The lockdowns were over and summer was upon us, it felt like we were moving on from the whole situation. Of course we'd be back in isolation a few months later, but summer 2020 was a blissful break. I was writing songs about "regular things" for a change.

The first wave of Covid was still happening, but it started slowing down. The initial pandemic shock had given way to exhaustion and this song was an expression of that.

It's from his 1995 album Conversation Peace, I tried to imagine what it would have sounded like if he'd recorded it in the 70s.

The mood took me back to the early days of our band Quintessence, so I just had to have Emma sing on it - turned out perfect.

...you realize that spring is actually here and that feeling was amplified manyfold that year. It was still peak pandemic times and the anxiety returned pretty quickly, but there was that little moment there that felt okay.

Aarne played some awesome percussion tracks for this one.

Google the term - you will mostly find links to articles from the covid era. After the pandemic... pretty quiet - which is kind of the point of the song.

P.S. Shout out to Good Life Coffee Roasters for taking home the prizes for best Finnish coffee last weekend!

…join in - naturally he nailed it. While the track started as a kind of joke, I did spend a lot of time tweaking minor production details and especially finding the right vibe for my vocals - that’s why I think it works.

…with comedic elements in my music. But it was covid times and I’d decided to do whatever I felt like and this thing popped up so I just had fun with it. I wrote a topical second verse and asked fellow coffee enthusiast Tommy Lindgren aka Father Metro from Don Johnson Big Band to…