Majakka

Little lighthouse on an islet. Lake Keitele is frosen over - once again this winter. (Juha H.)

Pensas rannalla

Frozen bush on the bank of Lake Keitele. There was a mighty storm earlier this week in Finland. Actually it rampaged quite badly Norway and Sweden, too. There were hundreds of thousands of people for days without electricity -  especially in Southern Finland . We had no blackouts though it was close... But after those storming days the banks of  Lake Keitele looked like the pic above. I made a video, too. It can be seen here. (Juha H.)

Myrskyn tauottua

After two days of storming the banks of  Lake Keitele looked like this. (Juha H.)

Ihmeellinen porkkana

Miraculous carrot. Snow is quite scarse. Merry Christmas. (Juha H.)

Oregon

Lately while walking I've been listening a lot to music of a group called Oregon. Years and years ago it was a revelation to find such a band. Ever since the classical lineup - Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore and Colin Walcott, the musicians and their instrumentation -  has been a dream band for me. I still wish to have such a band some day - to play acoustic music concisting of  tightly composed and totally improvised passages. Maybe someday...

And something totally different. Here's a link to J-V's latest band - their brand new demos.

Juha H.

Tuli takapihalla

Bonfire from my backyard. - I made a video. Sini sang the melody and I did the rest. It  can be seen here. It's sort of a  Christmas movie. (Juha H.)

Lumilyhty

Snow lantern Sini made. - All day I've just recorded keyboards and woodwind instruments with Pro Tools.  It's been very, very nice. Now's the time to go to sauna. (Juha H.)

Joulukuusen hakeminen

Sini and I trekked into deep forest to meet Toropainen and get us a Christmas tree. I had a camcorder with me and filmed the whole trip... Back home it took merely some three hours to compose a piece of music to go with the visual adventure, record it and edit the video. Now it's ready and can be seen here. (Juha H.)

Graffiti

Ensemble Hoikkaset played a gig for local veterans of WW2. We performed mostly Christmas carols.
Later in the evening I recorded some recorder and Sini's beautiful singing. Music makes me so happy! (Juha H.)

Roskis Tallinnassa

Above a trashcan from Tallinn. The text tells that anything that can't be used as a rhythm instrunment can be put  here. - Concerts were great.  Especially I liked the organ music - Bach and Liszt.  Toomas Trass performed the music quite superbly! Moya Brennan was good, too.  (Juha H.)

Vanhahko digitaalinen maalaus

Digital painting I did twenty years ago. The original pic was created  with Amiga Computer. Then it was photographed and the slide was reflected on boys thinking some deep thoughts... Last weekend I digitized the pic again.

Tomorrow Sini and I are goint to travel to Tallinn. Nice days ahead - some organ music and a concert of Moya Brennan. (Juha H.)