Various recording work (performing or technical)

all instruments, words, writing, singing, programming, production 2024

Squier Cabronita, Cort acoustic, NUX amp academy, Daking Mic Pre One, Klark EQP-KT, Red Panda Particle ...

LYRICS:
Take me, take me, take me ... for a fool.

|| Look     at how | far I've come|  
Slightly    bi|zarre
I don't know me at | all.  
|| Find my face re|flecting in the || mirror  
What have I | learnt?      All | ways to hurt and get | hurt.
|| Turned myself | over and shook me for | change
Naught up my | sleeves, I'm all skin | and no|bones
But | you, || will have all the | answers
(But) | you.

||Watching vide|os that claim I'm do-ing it | wrong
 buy the |workbook, download the | pdf and get back on | track
||Therapist | told me to go roving in | malls
Must be | mindful    , just take in the | landscape, and glow it up.
But you, || you will have all the answers
You ... answer.

Take me, take me, take me  for a fool. 

Swiping through mugshots with  a | snorkel in my headband
I'm just | tryin' to get through to you
There's | goldilock handbags and comfortable fridges
Candyface smilers and | untimely ridges
Elevator closures and mirror ass poses    cradling
Telephones and dogs like | manicured roses
Headstand, flowerland, lover of a famous band 
Plays the stock markets with a racket in her hand
|| || 
Everyone's | trying to get back to something new
|| |
But |these aren't the droids for you. 
|| |
Striding through the turnstiles with stones in my pockets
I'm just | stepping out,   I won't be a moment 
 Let me just sink in and sleep with the viscious
Float me out ...
Take me out, take me out, take me out, you fool.
Yohoo.

Take me (for a fool) 04.2024

Everything (c) Oskar Silén 2023-2024

Initially it was the tattoos
Designer frock and careless hairdo
She threw me a high-five and that was that, we started to chat
But oh hell, she wasn’t single
The party loosened up, and we got down, talking
The itty bitty crimes in love lost and found
And how she's not single

What a shame to be losing at the game again
But could there be a we, just not romantically
Could we be friends?

We stood and talked for hours
By the wine-stained table and flowers
People came up to us and asked "Do you guys go way back?"
And I said "No, this is a strictly new friends' chat. And she's not single."

What a shame to be losing at the game again
But could there be a we, just not romantically
Could we be friends?

Shake it off
Just shake it off

There's a place inside my heart
A respite for a soul that's threaded bare
If you need me I'll be out back
Chopping shit and pretending I don't care

"Hey, new friend," I said, "see you later."
But she said
"Hey hey hey hey now, don't you call me that.
Don't you call me friend, who knows how this will end."
And she steals a kiss I couldn't miss and then she leaves.
And that's the perfect goodbye.

Respite 07.2024

All a rope 09.2025

bass on El Hefe: O'L LADY (studio in Spain)

bass on El Hefe: POLITI (studio in Spain)

Matti Raita: vocals, acoustic guitar
Vilhelm Grotenfelt: melodica, backing vocals
Oskar Silén: banjo, backing vocals

Banjo on Mattis Jesus: Syrup of tears (D.Johnston). Live @ Viirus, Helsinki 2012

Theatre music and sound. Indie stuff. Recording. Electric double bass etc.

Banjo on Mattis Jesus: Syrup of tears (D.Johnston). Live @ Viirus, Helsinki 2012

oskar silen