(46th) Re-grouping personalities.

I noticed this morning while on my way to work that I seem to have quite too many sidepersons here in the web. Even here in the blogger. For example 1001 Impressions of Albums, which contains my album reviews. And the albums have been selected by the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Which is something a bit weird, since I like to do things my way, even on the highway ;) (Why don't we do it on the road!?)

Ok, back to something. I'm going to put the album review -articles in here and contuinue maintaining only this blog. And the reviews might be titled as 1001 Albums I must've been listening before I got killed. Or something like that. :D

(44th)put your money where my mouth is

you've got a nerve
to seach your happiness
though i pay you for
doing something else
you've got a nerve
to seach your happiness

you don't need to
do a thing
i'll give you this
this is for free
you don't have to
do a thing

swallow this
among your pride
it's soft, mellow,
it's easy, try
now swallow this,
swallow your pride

put your money
where my mouth is, suckers!
do like you're told,
cut the nonsense (quit thinking!)
put your money
where my mouth is, suckers!

(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 ;)

kaksikymmentäkolmas - twentythird

Pienoinen päivitys. Levyä prosessoidaan edelleen. Voisihan toki ranskanmaalle vinkata, että sen enkoodauksen voi toteuttaa myös tietokoneella, luulisin.

Levy on ladattavissa Jamendosta. Jos ei nyt, niin hyvinkin pikapuoliin. Ainakin se nyt on sinne uploadattu ja paraikaa prosessoitavana. Kannesta saamme kiittää Josefiina Råttaa. Muilta osin kiitokset ansaitsevat yksilöt mainitaan sekä kotisivuilla, että Jamendossa. Joka ikinen, joka tätä on ollut työstämässä, auttamassa, henkisenä tukena ja kriittisenä korvaparina sekä potentiaalisena kohdeyleisön jäsenenä ansaitsee myös sen kunniamaininnan.

tämänpäiväisen blogauksen otsikosta on kiittäminen 1980-luvun suomalaista urheiluselostajistoa.

Record is now uploaded and soon able to be downloaded from: http://www.jamendo.com/artist/Incredible_Jens.
Someone might say to the French (Jamendo is originally from France) that the encoding could be done also with computer ;). The album has been under processing until last night or so...

eleventh

the last song that needed the tweaking, metsä (forest for the foreigners ;) has hopefully been finalized now. I'll have to give it a break and try it tomorrow, not today anymore.

the cover is also waiting to be done, among the inner sleeve ;)

eighth (8th for the ones who can read)

Slight updates, fellows. Song called Mobiilielämä (mobile life) is dropped out. Mastering is going towards readiness. Due to this, we can celebrate and listen a sneaky peak from here:
http://incredible.jens.googlepages.com/08kuravett.mp3

The album itself is around 36:20 minutes long and has 8 songs. The names of the songs can be found from the Incredible Jens' homepage. Where also the one song is now uploaded and it is ready to be listened. You may comment here, please do :D.

Sixth

http://nowscape.com/star_city/index.html.
Star City, Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_City,_Russia

One of the things that tweaked my mind yesterday was the name of the training facility. It ended up in a bunch of quick notes on my notebook, there's a SONG coming :)

fifth

The album is currently heading towards readiness, some progress on friday. Still, two songs are still missing. The other, mobiilielämä (mobile life) is otherwise somewhat ready, but there's no vocals recorded there yet. And the second one, Rauniosusi (Carcass Wolf) is missing even more, the rhythm base needs to be re-looped, there's few tricky parts in there, which lead to clear mistakes when trying to play it.
So the album will be ready. when it is done. Not before. :D