I’ve been working on my friends upcoming album (Pyhimys: Medium, label Monsp Records). Pyhimys is a Finnish hip hop artist but now we’re taking his music more to the old school soul & jazzy styles with a live band and also taking the rap out of the hop… I arranged some strings to the first and last song on the album and we recorded those just a few days before I moved to Boston. Our sound engineer Arttu and the musicians did awesome job.
I had a farewell concert at Café Jugend in Helsinki in August. This is a new, electronical version of the previous song, Fiksu. It is inspired by the amazing Imogen Heap. Oh and it was the first time that I played that looping thingy. But definetly not the last time!
I had a little concert for my friends and relatives in July at my parents’ veranda in Tampere, Finland. It was the first time over a year since I’ve performed my own songs, so almost all of them were new. This is called Fiksu (Smart).
Legendary artist Jane Siberry held her Salon at Riihimäki, Finland in late May. The host of the evening, Päivi, asked me to warm up for Jane. This is an English version of my song Ajallaan – All Good Things.