CD and vinyl on www.grainyrecords.com
Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du6gtICHPrc
Taken from "Varjudemaa" album, released by Grainy Records. 
Digital: www.itunes.com/maunomeesit


Mauno Meesit · Varjudemaa

Taken from "Varjudemaa" album, released by Grainy Records. 
CD and vinyl on www.grainyrecords.com
Digital: www.itunes.com/maunomeesit
maunomeesit.bandcamp.com/album/varjudemaa

Mauno Meesit · Amulett

I'm Dreaming is taken from my album Closer that is available via Grainy Records.
More info: www.maunomeesit.com 
Limited edition vinyl and CD available: 
www.grainyrecords.com / www.itunes.com/maunomeesit

" Dear listener, this album marks a ten year circle. I look back on my twenties and start my early thirties with a very similar urge to experience and to discover. I feel that one circle in my life has ended and I’m back in a familiar place. This time a little wiser and more experienced. Ten years ago I wanted to record a similar album but back then the time wasn’t right for it.

Two years ago I moved to Berlin. I had a new wave of inspiration and I started recording my music in different spaces; living rooms. That music has grown into the album you now hold in your hands. Most of the songs were born in 2013 and 2014 and some are also from 2004-2006, a period when I felt a similar inspiration, and the foundations of the album’s story were laid.

During the recording process my goal was to discover ways to make guitars and vocals sound the way that I haven’t heard them before. I used guitar picks made of carton, felt and wood instead of plastic. I placed the microphones as close as possible to instruments and played the strings really softly to give more voice to silent sound textures, and bigger dynamics. I ended up recording five different guitars that matched the particular songs the best, among them a lovely 100 year old Austrian parlor guitar, that you can mostly hear in ‘Blue Bird’ song. To add more warmth to the sound, I sang vocals through an old American Turner microphone from the 1940’s.

I feel very inspired by acoustic instruments and those microscopic sounds that you can hear when you stop for a moment and take the time to listen to how the sounds play with silence. Silence is not emptiness, it always has its own sound that holds everything else together. I wanted to capture the feeling that I have when I am sitting alone with my guitar in a quiet little room while singing only to myself. I recorded the songs so closely and silently that you can almost feel as if I am singing right next to you. That is why I named the album ‘Closer’. 
I hope you enjoy your journey through these songs.
Mauno "

Music, lyrics, recording, production and artwork by Mauno Meesit. 
Guest vocals in ‘Sõnumid’ by Allan Vainola.
Additional piano in ‘Sõnumid’ by Jaroslaw Ilski.
Recorded in different living rooms in Berlin during 2014. 
Mixed and mastered by Lauri Laagus at LLProductions, Tallinn. 
Lacquer cut for vinyl by Andreas LUPO Lubich at Calyx, Berlin.
Photography for album by Renee Altrov, Berlin.

Baltic album release concerts:

15 May / Philly Joe's / TALLINN, EE
22 May / Genklubi / TARTU, EE
23 May / Kaņepes Kultūras centrs/ RIGA, LV

www.maunomeesit.com
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www.grainyrecords.com

Closer

Mauno Meesit · I'm Dreaming

Rain Song is taken from my album Closer that is available via Grainy Records.
More info: www.maunomeesit.com 
Limited edition vinyl and CD available: 
www.grainyrecords.com / www.itunes.com/maunomeesit

" Dear listener, this album marks a ten year circle. I look back on my twenties and start my early thirties with a very similar urge to experience and to discover. I feel that one circle in my life has ended and I’m back in a familiar place. This time a little wiser and more experienced. Ten years ago I wanted to record a similar album but back then the time wasn’t right for it.

Two years ago I moved to Berlin. I had a new wave of inspiration and I started recording my music in different spaces; living rooms. That music has grown into the album you now hold in your hands. Most of the songs were born in 2013 and 2014 and some are also from 2004-2006, a period when I felt a similar inspiration, and the foundations of the album’s story were laid.

During the recording process my goal was to discover ways to make guitars and vocals sound the way that I haven’t heard them before. I used guitar picks made of carton, felt and wood instead of plastic. I placed the microphones as close as possible to instruments and played the strings really softly to give more voice to silent sound textures, and bigger dynamics. I ended up recording five different guitars that matched the particular songs the best, among them a lovely 100 year old Austrian parlor guitar, that you can mostly hear in ‘Blue Bird’ song. To add more warmth to the sound, I sang vocals through an old American Turner microphone from the 1940’s.

I feel very inspired by acoustic instruments and those microscopic sounds that you can hear when you stop for a moment and take the time to listen to how the sounds play with silence. Silence is not emptiness, it always has its own sound that holds everything else together. I wanted to capture the feeling that I have when I am sitting alone with my guitar in a quiet little room while singing only to myself. I recorded the songs so closely and silently that you can almost feel as if I am singing right next to you. That is why I named the album ‘Closer’. 
I hope you enjoy your journey through these songs.
Mauno "

Music, lyrics, recording, production and artwork by Mauno Meesit. 
Guest vocals in ‘Sõnumid’ by Allan Vainola.
Additional piano in ‘Sõnumid’ by Jaroslaw Ilski.
Recorded in different living rooms in Berlin during 2014. 
Mixed and mastered by Lauri Laagus at LLProductions, Tallinn. 
Lacquer cut for vinyl by Andreas LUPO Lubich at Calyx, Berlin.
Photography for album by Renee Altrov, Berlin.

www.maunomeesit.com
www.facebook.com/maunomeesit
www.grainyrecords.com

Mauno Meesit · Rain Song

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‘Varjudemaa’ album out now on 
Grainy Records
More info www.maunomeesit.com
Bookings: hello(at)maunomeesit.com

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