BLACK SATIN
Dark, exotic and one of the heaviest songs on this
album. Mr. Malmberg did couple very nasty drum fills
on this one, and like all the songs on this album,
he played like a human machine with a twisted groove.
This is also one of the tunes where Yugi (keyboards)
and I, both did our own solo.
XENOPIA
The title explain itself, it’s wrong spelled
finnish language and translated literally as ”the
fast one”.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
It just happened. Suddenly this beautiful melody just
came into my mind and I’m clad that I’ve
had a guitar and tape recorder available at that moment.
Even it took only ten minutes to wrote ”Until
we meet again”, I’m sure that I’m gonna
play this song for the rest of my life. This is one
of my all-time favorite guitar ballads ever.
ELEPHANT BOY
Even though I like every song on this album, this
is my personal favorite. If ”Until We Meet Again”
was an easy one to wrote, this one was comlitely opposite.During
whole writing process, this melody lurking in my head
and after month or so, I was finally capable to get
it out of my system. This was the last song I wrote
for this album.
EMERALDS
I wrote this song’s intro (main theme) when I
was very young. I think it was mid-80’s or something.
I was very inspired after I saw a strange dream where
I played this particular tune and the first thing
when I woke up, I picked up a guitar and figured it
out. Many years later when I started to work with
this project, I re-arranged this little song and decided
to use it like a interlude between ”Elephant
Boy ”and ”The Punisher”. It was Yugi’s
(keyboards) idea to use piano and string on a final
version.
THE PUNISHER
Rage…Hatred…Revenge…This-song-is-about-Frank…
RAINMAKER
An old song. This was one of the first songs I ever
demoed. I used portable fourtrack cassette recorder
and drum machine and played all guitars and bass by
myself. The original version was pretty much the same
than final album version except there’s no keyboards
at all. When we played this song in rehearsals, it
was Yugi who suggested to use Hammond to dublicate
the rhythm guitar parts. For some reason good ol’
Hammond sounds so well with my music that we ended
up using it almost every song on this album.
SNOWFLAKE
Weird but beautyful intro. When heavenly creatures
talks to each other it maybe sounds exactly like this.
This is a pure pop song. I was probably overdosed
by sugar when I wrote this one.
WAKIZASHI
That ”koto” sounding clean guitar part at
the ending (outro) of the song was the last thing
that I played for this album. We recorded (at east)
six different guitar tracks backwards, forwards, tapped
w/crazy whammy bendings etc. and mixed them together
to sound like one exotic string instrument. I used
Jackson guitar and Ampeg amp.The title ”Wakizashi”
is a traditional Japanese sword and used only to commit
seppuku (i.e. hara-kiri).
SIRENA SONG
A perferct marriage between heavy metal crunch and
a hawaiian guitar. If you listen very carefully you
know what I mean.
EQUIPMENTS
Guitar: Jackson ”Jennifer” Soloist Custom
`92
Strings: Ernie Ball, GHS Boomers ( 10-52 )
Pickups: Seymor Duncan Custom (bridge), Jazz (neck)
Picks: Dunlop Tortex, Charvel ( 1,14 mm )
Effects: Ibanez SC10 Stereo Chorus, Ibanez Tube Screamer,
Dunlop Cry Baby, BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
Amps: Mesa/Boogie studio pre-amp, Marshall JCM 900
100W Hi Gain Master Volume Mk2
Caps: Marshall JCM 800 4 x 12 w/75W speakers
Others: K.Yairi acoustic (steel string)
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