Camping in the City

Almost a month ago me and Eugene started to plan a trip to the country-side, thinking it would be a nice quiet place to finish our compositions for the upcoming album. Well, we took vacation from our offices and started to crawl through our phonebooks, hoping to find a kind person who would accomodate us to his/her cabin for a few days. Free of charge of course. Maybe we were a bit idealistic and out of luck (we won 20 euros from a pokerslot-machine earlier the same week). The plan didn't work and no-one agreed in our conditions. So here we were, out of job for a few days, and we decided to have a nice country-side-themed weekend in the city. In our nice little cabin near the centrum of Helsinki.









The songs take their time. That's why usually the first hours goes on playing all the crappy ideas out of your system. In this case it took the whole first day. I was still finishing the mixes of the africa-demos when Eugene finally arrived into the resort. We started playing quite late and no songs did appear on our minds or our fingers clearly. So I realized that the best thing to do was to go and check-out the local night-life of this exotic northern city. It was fun. I ended up at this art-school party near our accomodation. There played a good band (it was called Asa or something). I danced for a while all though this was not my dancing night. My moves where quite mellow.

The next day everything was better. We had some nice ideas, did one cool song, but then we ran out of cigarrettes. So we went to lend a camera, buy some cigarrettes and checked out the local transportational devices.



Travelling in the Country-side











Saturday night we tryed if our luck had changed and took part at the lottery draw. The win was 6.8 million. Yep, no luck yet. We should have never touched that pokerslot-machine.






The big forest












So sunday came. Everything was going swell, still we were a little late. We wrote a couple of songs and realized that our weekend had been a big succes. Almost all the songs are ready for the album, can't wait to go and try it with the band. We even wrote this one slow, almost classical, really depressing song. It sounds like a battlefield after the battle, a big graveyard. Panthéon.

Soldiers, heroes, husbands and wives, superhero-relationships, russian revolutions etc. are a few themes we've been writing our songs from. We weren't trying to make a theme album(with one fundamental theme that has to be on every song). The songs are quite diffent from each other and from our earlier work. And they are all new. We will be playing them live on may. Maybe release a couple of demos on the internet in a couple of weeks.
So things are going forward and it's all good. We are going to try and write here at least once in two weeks. Stay tuned as our bass player learns how to skate.


-Emil