This has been brewing from November 2020 to March 2021. 
Existential questions. Why am I making music? To whom am I making music, especially in isolation?


Jux: modular synth, drums, percussion, bass, guitars, tuba, trombone, trumpet, bass clarinet

Iznogoud

Jazz & blues - maybe more than electronic.
Again balancing on the imaginary tightrope between genres, between acoustic and electric, 
between analog and digital. 
What is the base of these dichotomies? Or ANY dichotomies for that matter.
Analog instruments are digitally recorded, digital sounds are processed on analog reel-to-reel tape recorder and everything is digitally processed in DAW anyway.

Jux: modular synth, drums, percussion, guitars, bass, tuba, trombone, trumpet, bass clarinet, clarinet, engineering, mixing, mastering

Oh wait. No guitars. 
I did have guitars on only one tune which did not quite make it. 
So no guitars. Zen and art of guitar playing.

Dimming Of The Sun

Experiments in Electronic Music. 

Standing on the shoulders of electronic music pioneers before me 
(and I do not start name dropping - there is no end) 
I still try to find some uncharted areas. 
It gets more difficult all the time, like bitcoin mining.
Mentally and spiritually more rewarding but maybe not economically.

In "Bring Out Your Dead" I admit I do hear echoes from 
"Ulakanakulot" by Virgin Prunes, but that was years ago 
and it is another story altogether ...

"Crumbling Memory Palace" is my impression - or an attempt to 
express - what it is to lose one's memories one by one. 

Cover art: a photo of my drum kit seen through some deepdream processing.

Jux: modular synth, production.

Bring Out Your Dead

Cruise Altitude

I have recently experienced situations the map application of a large data gathering corporation instructs me to make an U-turn on a motorway.
I still drive my car myself. With an autopilot that sort of an instruction could be devastating.

I have also amused myself with another application of another large data gathering corporation. The machine transcriptions of meetings held in another language than English are totally hilarious.

Jux: modular synth, espeak reading a transcript, production

Meditation

Make An U - Turn (Navigation Computer Losing It)

This kind of music just kind of happened. Had to happen. 
Music had to become. 
This had to become first so I can work on the next. 


Jux: modular synth, production.

Call Of The Wild

I realized after the fact i.e. giving the work names for the tunes that 
my naming may seem sexist, even offending. 

That was not my intention. 

My intention was to celebrate all ladies out there, regardless of their hair color, whether original or artificial. There are so many other aspects more interesting than just superficial ones - or even just 
physical ones.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. 
A tune about hot blonde is not hot blonde.
It is just a tune called "Hot Blonde".

Jux: modular synth, drums, bass, guitar, and production.

Hot Blonde

Partly composed, mostly just received and accepted. 
Most of my music just becomes, and I happen to be the conduit.
My creative process is not a complete mystery anymore, 
but I still cannot look straight to it or it escapes.

Jux: modular synth, reel-to-reel tape machine, drums, bass, guitars

Snake Dream

There are things inside our minds we would rather forget.
Sometimes these things insist to be heard.


Laura Ala-Peijari: vocals, acoustic guitar
Jux Kinnunen: guitars, percussion, modular synth


Recorded in Tampere Spa October 2022.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jux.

En - Chantress

Dream Of Unicorn

These things live in my mind, among others. 
I have to let them out from time to time.


Jux: modular synth, bass, guitars, and production.

Equilibrium

Red Jam

Ice Fish

I have been trying to get out of electronic music, 
to start to make more "organic" music, 
more guitar based music.
Alas, there was a brief period I could not play guitar 
so I had to resort to modular synth as main instrument.

Jux: modular synth, production

Dronedar

That AI Is Laughing At You

May your midsummer be magic.


Jux: modular synth, guitars, bass, and production.

Jodorowsky Space Western

These tunes have been maturing slower than is usual to me.
Synth tracks have been ready for a while but I was a bit lost
until a nylon string acoustic kinda put the existing tracks into scope.

Jux: modular synth, bass, guitars, and production.

Kind Red Spirit

Some Night

Greed Of Ones Leads To Austerity Of Others

Tribal Gathering

Communing With Spirits Of Shadows

Magic and physics. Rabbits from top hats, and worms from wormholes. Fever and shivers.

Inflaton Field

Baron Of Saturday

Wallclock Rag

Shiftmancrap

First off: I certainly do know that Carlos Castaneda is total hoax in anthropological sense.

However, his concepts of "tonal" as everyday rational perception and "nagual" as its non-rational counterpart somehow make sense especially related to "tonal-atonal" dichotomy. 

So nagual music is not tonal nor atonal although it may be any which one but nagual music is dreamlike non-rational music conceived by dreaming, preferably by "impeccable warrior" which I myself do not claim to be.

I merely am the conduit through which the lightning strikes,
conductor only in the sense of being the shortest way to earth, 
and music is both IN charge and THE charge.

All instruments, engineering and that stuff by me.

I am so sick and tired of slick well-planned, well-played, and studio automated music that this session is not much rehearsed - about everything is played in as first take, no punch-ins, not quantized, not autotuned or fixed in any way, as playing "well" or "correct" is not the point, at least not in nagual music.

Nagual Autumn 2018

Dream Two

Dream One

The image is an excerpt from Max Ernst's "Europe After The Rain II" painting. The title of this piece as well as my nickname are all nicked from Max Ernst. I owe him. We all do.

Dystopy 2018

Europe After The Rain III

There was a time - long ago - when his could have been categorized as psychedelic rock. 
Plain old blues mixed with electronic music or vice versa.

Jux: guitars, bass, drums, modular synth, and production.

Recorded in The Makeshift Studios (i.e. in my home).

Restricted Access

So Sweet, So Cold, So Fair

Blues is the core. I do not mean purist museum blues. 
Living, expanding blues. Exploring the limits of blues.

Jux Ernst

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