In honour of Astor Piazzolla and Al di Meola. Once again I somehow managed to get wonderful musicians to play on my track. 

Antti Vähälä (right channel, steelstring guitar) just loves this kind of music. A true no-brainer to ask him to participate. Luckily he said yes. He really makes his guitar sing on this track.  He's such a softy! (Actually a hardcore engineer)

Esa Lindroos (Bass) plays any kind of music superbly. This is a thight arrangement, but he just did his own  irresistible thing on the solos. Love it!

Tipi Pulkkinen mixed and mastered. A man with great ears and a big soul.. or the other way around. Whichever way you like it. Soon to be my brother...

Chuleta is a spanish expression of an arrogant person (but also "cutletof meat"). My sister Kajsa invented the title of the song.

Tango Chuleta

What a lucky guy I was to get these musicians to play on MY track! Tomi Malm (merited composer) on piano, Tipi Pulkkinen on Double bass... What more could I ask for, really? I am blessed. This song is trying to grasp  moments of some persons life...

Whatever is left of me

Tried to create a very sad guitar tune. I had some seroius stomach problems a few years ago which was hard to diagnose. One medical diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. Luckily it was not that, something far less leatheal. But I named this song Pancreas Waltz because of this.

My Songs

Pancreas Waltz

Melancoly tune with guitar and accordion. Finnish summer night. Lehmus is Linden tree in finnish.

Lehmus

Lehmus (Linden tree)

This title is just the lack of my imagination. My girlfriend does yoga. My favorite band is Steely Dan.  Some of that influence can hopefully be heard hear. Also some Pekka Pohjola, again I hope... or not. Me playing the bass.. aswell as everything else.

Yoga

I've been on many interrail journeys. Something you've been able to do in Europe for decades. Those trips were much about the train stations. It not the journey, it is the feeling of leaving and going to places...

Still at the Station

My childhood cowboy dreams... I wanted to make a very predictable and simple melody that listeners could relate to.

Hymn for the Buffalo

This track was created for a video. It contains mandala pictures of 15 artists. Mandalas according to the philosopher Jung are graphical representation of the center or "the Self". 

I was so lucky to get these excellent musicians to collaborate on this tune.  I'm very proud of this!
Tapio Wiik: Accordion
Ari Hossi : Double-bass
Timo "Tipi" Pulkkinen: Mixing & mastering
Roope Bahne: Synth sound programming

Link to video with the mandalas:
https://youtu.be/Hvq1_ilU-Yg

Mandala

I'm a guitar player and midi creator. My music is mostly described as instrumental jazz, but it collides with several genres. These are mearly sketches of what these songs could be if I had a band.

Art by Hanna Toijala

Mats Nyman