Karkelo

I am done. The bass recordings were finished last night in Lahti. Today has been mostly vocals I think and tomorrow Juho will start with his accordion. The album is shaping up quite nicely. We are definitely creating an excellent album. This is I think my fourth album with the band, but only now I've come to realize what difference does a good evil producer make. We did three albums all with the same producer, but I've now understood that he was only producing the album, not the music.
Producer for the current album along with Jonne is Aksu Hanttu, also known from various other activities. He's been asking a lot of questions all the time like:
- "Are you sure that's good?"
- "Was it supposed to go that way?"
- "Why don't you do it that/this/other way?"
- "Are you REALLY happy with THAT?"

And on the other hand he's been demanding "something" all the time:
- "This part needs something."
- "Do something for this part."
- "Something's missing."
- "Let's go to Veijo Esso to eat something."

I believe that this something is making the album really good. Of course you have to have good songs, which we have, but that extra something is turning a bunch of good songs into a great album. I can't wait to hear the finished product.

Still, everything is not perfect. For various reasons we will be skipping one song originally intended for this album. That was Hittavainen's composition to an old text. I liked the song. Well, we'll put it on the next album then.