Raoul Bjorkenheim

Earlier today I was soo tired. And then like ordinarely I went to sauna - that should have been pretty much enough. But this time it was to no avail... What saved me today was Raoul Bjorkekheim and listening to his music. Wow and wow! Krakatau Alive saved my day this time. Thank you very much for them weirdly masterful musicians - Some years ago while studying guitar in local music school J-V took part in a Bjorkenheim's guitar workshop. And after it when he came home he said:" I've never heard a better guitar player..." There are many possible equals and even better guitarists today ...

Juha H.

Kalat

Strange fishes. (Juha H.)

Koivut

Birches and the light green of early summer. (Juha H.)

Sataman aamu

Early this morning. (Juha H.)

Suomaata

Marshland. There are a lot of marshes here in Finland. Above one of them. (Juha H.)

Ilman lepoa 2

Mixed the backing track of my composition Ilman lepoa (= Without any rest). It's a happy, happy song about the beauty of this world we live in. It's so good to see the good things every now and then. All is not wrong, all is not gone bad. Beauty and good things help us to get by and to get over with the evil... - Now only Sini's singing and a guitar solo are missing.

Now's the time to watch a movie - Troy this time. And some Stratocaster playing to go with the film.

Juha H.

Tuomi kukkii

Bird cherry blossoming. - Improvisages rehearsed today. Very nice. (Juha H.)

Kukinto

Natural close-up. - Sini sang two of my songs. I recorded her doing it, mixed the compositions and bounced them to HardDisk. Nice, very nice. (Juha H.)

Suolla

While trekking today. - Sini and I watched a movie - Curse of the Golden Flower. The film was very Chinese, visually very colourful and as a story somehow touching. Well, anyways we liked the whole quite alot. ( Juha H.)

Rentukka

One more flower - rentukka (=Kingcup). (Juha H.)

Veden alla

Weird creature under water. - Jazz is not dead! Earlier I found this video of Keith Jarret playing with his European quartet. Jan Garbarek is quite fantastic. (Juha H.)

Ilman lepoa

I recorded almost all instruments to my composition Ilman lepoa (=Without rest). Now only Sini's singing and a solo instrument are missing. The solo could be played with guitar and I hope that J-V'll have some day time to do it.

Now what? Maybe some Stratocaster...

Juha H.

Saxonette

Flowers in my backyard. - Finally I got a saxonette. It's a mixture of clarinet and recorder. It sounds like a clarinet but looks like a recorder. (Juha H.)

Lunta ja Pasunapelimannit

Scene from my backyard this morning. - Pasunapelimannit played a nice concert in Suolahtisali. We performed Finish folk music exclusively and most of the compositions were locally born. (Juha H.)

Suosikki

While writing music. This is the place where I sit and arrange most of my compositions. All and everything is getting so green. (Juha H.)

Soft Machine

Just and only some minutes ago I finished listening to Soft Machine and their double-LP Six. This was the first listening ever, for me. The double - now a CD - was recorded in 1972 and released the next year. The music still sounds very cool - some of it is quite wonderful. What surprised me was that some compositions were mere hooks, sort of - there should have been something more music happening on top of a simple or a little more complicated ostinato. Anyways music of Soft Machine sounds still very nice.

Juha H.

Musaa ja kuvia

Nothing much. Most of the evening I just kept on blowing - flute and clarinet. Later after sauna there may be some time for domra pickin'.

Earlier today I added some photos here - pics from Winter Solstice 2007 to May 2008. In the beginning there are quite many hues of white and blue. Later all gets so blue and green.

Juha H.

Pieni aatos

This is one of the compositions I wrote today - the smallest one. And it really is small... (Juha H.)

Majakka ja puolikuu

Little lighthouse and half-moon. (Juha H.)

Iltaa

Evening. (Juha H.)

Rannalla

More and more green. - Pasunapelimannit rehearsed in Sumiainen. And it was so nice! For a couple of months I haven't been able to take part neither in band's rehearsals nor gigs. But hopefully from now on my timetable could be more forgiving. (Juha H.)

Niin onnellista

It's so nice that all and everything around here is getting more and more green. Well, actually there's lots of blue, too. - Most of the day I just kept on working with my music - recorded some tracks of percussion, bass guitar and some lines of woodwinds... (Juha H.)

Hidasta jarruttelua

This is what I wrote today - Hidasta jarruttelua (= Slow braking). Slow and simple music. (Juha H.)

Paju

Willow. (Juha H.)

Polku

Path in the forest. - Sweden and Switzerland are playing hockey! (Juha H.)

Kukat

Flowers just keep on poppin' up. (Juha H.)

Eilinen

Above the photo I tried to send here yesterday. The weather was bright and fine. Today the temperature dropped more than 10 Celcius degrees. - All evening I worked with my music. There was no going out... (Juha H.)

Yritys

Well, well. I tried to send a photo to this blog - six or seven times. But somehow the Blogger was too busy. Later - another time, another day I'll try it again...

Now's the time to play some domra.

Juha H.

Laivat

Some ships still waiting for Summer. - Now it's time for Weather Report and their DVD Live at Montreux 1976. The band was then in its Classical form, for me at least. Shorter, Zawinul, Pastorius, Badrena and Acuna was the Weather Report for me... They did many suberbly fine albums before and after Jaco. But Jaco was then the main focus for me... Well, later my son J-V got his first name partially because of him. Weather Report - Fine Music. (Juha H.)

Tampere

Very early this morning Sini and I left for Tampere. And about an hour ago we returned home. Fourteen hours of travelling and wandering around the city. Nice warm day - and very nice little trip.

Juha H.

Kyy

While walking today along a little dirt road in the forest Sini and I met this viper. (Juha H.)