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So I finished FAWM as a winner! 14 songs in 28 days was quite an experience, especially because I had also much else to do. Like changing diapers and things like that…

Yesterday I posted the last 6 songs of my album. Some of them were recorded already earlier, but I didn’t have time to finish them before yesterday.

I won’t post my liner notes here but they are to be found with the original recordings on my FAWM profile page.

Now, with this done, I will continue making new music. Besides the FAWM project I’ve been writing a soundtrack to a short film by Riikka Kuoppala. I’ll write more of it later.

And here are the songs:

Surf Song

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I Of The Tiger

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Nameless Wild

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Blank

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Sleep Well Song/Unilaulu

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The Beginning

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Yeah!!! Half way there! The dramatic composition of my album turned out to be very symmetric. In the end of the seventh song my awaited daughter gets her first cry on the record. If the first songs were about the waiting, the latter half of the album will be about the first days of her life.

Clean Up Your Room

This was the last song I wanted to write before my daughter was born. Yesteday I was recording some other songs at the studio and ended up singing an acappella version of it. Early this morning our daughter woke up early and after that I couldn’t sleep. So I came downstairs and made the backgrounds to the vocal track. It reminds me of works of Gavin Bryars and Marsen Jules. It also meets the FAWM challenge of this week – “Time”.

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In Mist

Our cute little daughter was born on the Valentine’s Day (or in fact, night). We spent almost a week in the hospital in dreamy & misty moods.

I had packed my handy recorder with me and made some recordings before and after the birth. A couple of hours before the last phase of the birth process (or the pushing) my wife was almost sleeping even though she was having contractions. I played to her my Hapi drum accompanied by a heart sound from the baby, who was still waiting in the belly. This song is made of sounds that I recorded 13.-14.2.2010 while my amazing daughter was entering the world. (Only exception is the bell sound, that I recorded some day earlier at home.)

By chance this one also meets the FAWM challenge of the week.

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A blues I made last friday when I couldn’t sleep. The song is about accepting my personal past, which I see very important in becoming a father. Recording of this song includes two overdubs and took less than 10 minutes to finish.

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