(38th) Incredible Jens LIVE at Drottninggatan

Finally, there's been some live-music. I've been training some rock standards together with Kimmo for the past half a year or so. Once a week or then maybe twice. Or none, depending on the schedules of two somewhat wanna-be-busy-look-a-like dudes. Folsom Prixon -blues, Honky Tonk Women etc. type of rock standards. The playing has been fun, some sort of free breathing besides the actual musical process. Basically Kimmos has done the job, holding the songs together and handling the vocal parts. I've been mainly trying to find myself in and out of the songs more or less blasting off with the total improvisation -stuff. It has been and it still is challenging to have three chords and in every single song the solo and the other parts should have something that's not inside the other songs with similar chord -structure ;)

Anyhow, since I've been way too lazy with everyday activities here in Stockholm, we couldn't get inside the rehearsal space on saturday morning, so we decided to practice outdoors, since the weather was extremely good. We played around 10 minutes in the nearby park and then decided to go and find out the truth by playing for the gracefully passing by audience in Drottninggatan. And that was great! Even though, after two hours playing, my fingers were aching and my back was hurting. We managed even to collect some coins on the way, thanks for the pass-byers :D. Needless to say we spent them on water and coffee. So where's the rock n' roll cliche in that one, then? No whiskey, big cadillacs or women ;).

Anyhow, we're planning to do it again at some point the following weeks. On wednesday evening this week at least, so if you pass by, leave a coin or don't - I don't care - and ENJOY the music, if you can ;)

(37th) Dancing The Angel

Yesterday I managed to do something I thought I wouldn't do anymore ;). At a sudden moment of some sort of madness, there was an old tune of mine (A song called Enkeli in Finnish) but I suddenly managed to get a grip of a set of new english lyrics. Manic and rapid decision was to sit down and write them. At the moment, they're still a draft, but anyhow, that's gonna be the next tune to record. I like the melody on that one, too.

I consider the songs, from the lyrical view, as a sneak peak to the world I might not be able to see completely. this is ment as an information to the people who might start thinking my weird explanations about the world the songs are describing. They're not describing the world, just some glimpses of the reality. But there IS a big unexplored haven of something behind them. At least in my mind :D.