Eivat paivat loppuneet

Began recording my song - Eivat paivat loppuneet (=Days Didn't come to their end). It's a story about life coming closer to its end. But the end is not when you die. It can be far before that - when the fire burning within turns to ashes, withers away. When you loose the skill and the willingness to find and see life's little wonders - in every moment or at least every now and then - that's when you begin to die. When that state of mind becomes permanent you get close to your death. Maybe it was what Jori wrote yesterday that made me begin to work on this song composed in Summer 2004...

Ten years ago we were forming a band in Jyvaskyla, Finland. And Jori was supposed to be its keyboard player. Then he got seriously sick. But there were already some gigs coming so we got Marian Petrescu to play keys. Marian is a fantastic virtuoso and it was very, very much fun to play with him...

We've been friends with Jori for a long time and it's always been very, very great to play, make music together. We've played music from Early Baroque to this day - very many Eras, myriads of musical styles. But I think that it's always been best when we've just jammed and improvised. That's when the little wonders and surprises of life most obviously happen. And they've sometimes been quite big ones... Jori will get well and we'll still play many gigs together.

Juha H.