Musaa

Jouko Takala visited. We talked about the ongoing musical project and some other mostly music related things. He recorded his guitar parts for his composition Aina yhdessa (= Always Together). Later in the evening I recorded bass and some woodwinds for the same song. And Sini began rehearsing the singing of it. Later she'll do her parts.

Now I may still have some strength left to read some more of the Berijan tarhat (= Beria's Garden). But was the author Unto Parvilahti a German spy, a Russian spy or what was he? He symphatized with the Nazi-Germany but his father was a communist... Anyways he was sentenced to Siberia for ten years. As a spy he would have been executed during the turmoil of the aftermath of the WWII. But he lived through his hardship. What was he? His stories somehow remind me of Maxim Gorgi and his actually quite masterful trilogy Childhood-In the World- My Universities. Both authors tell manifold stories of Russian people and their living. Gorki's view is quite positive in all its aspects. He was a communist. But Parvilahti describes more of the horrors of the Sovjet Regime- what communism caused to its partisipants. How hard was their life and living, though he doesn't say russians are bad or worse than any other people. He merely hates their political system...

Juha H.