The RPM Challenge completed in plenty of time

Today it is finally ready - my RPM Challenge 2009 album named To Escape a Bellowing Ocean, To Escape a Forlorn Sky. It is mostly a postrock and triphop album featuring krautrockish hypnotic repetition, ambient atmospheres, changing signatures and big dynamic changes. More information coming later.

You can listen to this album at last.fm or download it from scene.org.

All of a Sudden I Am Full of Scars

I have released my new album All of a Sudden I Am Full of Scars under my netlabel Kyoto Republic. It is a trip into dark downtempo, triphop and dubstep which beautifully sparks glimmer of hope here and there - only to collapse into the depths... Music for the armchair travellers of the darkening nights.

Here is a brief description of each track:

1. Landfills and Eternal Fall - The oldest track on this album. A triphop track from the pile of song ideas for an independent movie called Tiina. The name of the song refers to Leea Klemola's quote about my home town: Landfills, eternal fall and rebelling of teenagers.

2. Asphalt Ocean Lights - One of my first dubstep tracks. Does not try to push the boundaries too much and therefore succeeds well.

3. Sudden Disappearance - Melodic, melancholic dubstep downtempo whatever. Rhodes and violins forever!

4. Haunting Shadows - Slow, slow dive into despair. Beautiful, beautiful despair.

5. Premiere of The Night - Slowly progressing looming triphop. Tremolo violins and synths for the win!

6. Dedicated Thunder - This song was so much inspired by Portishead's Machine Gun, but comparing these two songs is so unfair.

7. Empathy Locks - There is always hope. And there is always scars. Locks for the open minded, locks for the empathy!

8. Sailor and The Star Burst - Periodically growing cinematic triphop. This song got the first place in Stream 2007 listening music competition.

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