This is a 2020 remix of my electronic ambient/hard trance medley from 1999: “The Fall / The River” that originally appeared in the album “Psychic*: Belief” (2000). This new rendition has a 1980s/1990s nostalgia style mixed with a modern sound and feel, suitable for the retro and epic movie-like feel of the game. I’ve always loved classical music and you can probably hear the influence and the way it combines in my electronic, ambient and trance songs too.
The song image cover depicts a flying alien plant from outer space. I see the eerie voice at the beginning (first heard at 0:11) and through the song as the sounds of a robotic eagle flying through an underworld metal and concrete labyrinth, trying to find its way back to the surface. Finally, the Sun starts to reflect from it’s metallic feathers…
As of 2020, I’m working on many projects, my own music, retro computer games (f.ex. a fantasy platform adventure!) and a rare book about my grandmother’s childhood in the 1930s Caribbean as an utopian settler. More about these later. Feel free to contact and mail!
*Psychic of Synchronic was my music artist name in the 1990s and early 2000s.
A completely improvised piece from 2011 on my grandparents’ Ed. Seiler piano from 1952. The piano has never been toned since September 30th 1955, making the sound, melodies and music quite haunting.
This piece, “Luona” in Finnish, is from the upcoming Soulweaver: Requiem for Earth film’s Soundtrack with its eery atmosphere.
A post-apocalyptic ballad music video about end of the world. Footage from the poetic Sci-Fi film Soulweaver: Requiem for Earth (2017). Read the lyrics here.
For celebrating the soon starting Formula 1 season 2017, here is a sneak preview teaser from my upcoming trance / 80s & 90s style remix of Kris Hatlelid‘s awesome music soundtrack from the 1987 computer game classic Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade.
The final piece will have f.ex. 1980s style lyrics :). Stay tuned!
This is a non-commercial unofficial mix made out of appreciation, love and inspiration.
Original song composed by Paul J. Smith and Leigh Harline, based on Frank Churchill‘s One Song.
No copyright infringement intended. Original music and composing belong to the copyright-holder(s).
This is one of my most psychedelic songs from 2001. Yet coherent in melody. I used to play around with unconventional various rhythms; I’d like to get back there.
I have called this style of my music from this period as “Renewing Power Experience”.
From the album World Lies in Leaves (2001). This is the first time I publicly release this song on my web page.
This song was on my Narcosis the Cat Meets the Flapsticks comic book album’s (2010) music CD as When It Is Raining from My Paws. The CD companion featured ambient, avantgarde and psychedelic music to be listened to while merging into the comic book fantasy world.
Part 1: When Reality Comes Along
Part 2: Did It Come to You
` ` When it is calm reality comes along; then you can hear me calling true… Long time ago since I left everything where it was, still now it is raining from my arms; for the first time in world – it makes all come to life. ´ ´
This song utilizes my whole vocal range – from bass to highest note. Sometimes it can take a long time from a melody and a sketch of a song to a finished version. This is the song that started a new age in my composing in 2011. I had written ballads before but with this song I started to make (without knowing it at the time) a full album of romantic vocal ballads. I hope to release the full album eventually.
The album Tree of Love – and Other Ballads from the Darkened Sun and this song have been many years in the making. I am glad to share this with You, finally. Hope you enjoy.
Heartfully warm special thanks to Joonas, Hanne, Matti, Liis, Kriku, Sini (and little boys), to my loving parents and to all others who have supported my music this year and in the past years – it has given me strength and inspiration to work day and night on this and other upcoming albums! Also thanks to Liis for suggesting the harmony multi-vocals :).
Update 23rd December 2016: As a Christmas bonus here is the original acoustic 2011 live recording of “Tree of Love” – Merry Christmas!
The wintery scene of trees on the single/album CD cover is from the upcoming post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi film Soulweaver: Requiem for Earth.
This is an island in Tammisaari. There is a beautiful V-shaped old tree in the center. It is the same island I talked about in the recent music post Summer Island. A few years ago I decided to swim there in the summer but under estimated the distance…
1. Näin, näin valon ja pimeän mielessäin, mä ymmärrän Valon valitsen, se kenties vie meidät lähemmäs toisiamme Kunnes taas… taas, taas, taas Sen kaiken jälleen, joudun kokemaan… Pois luotain karkasit 2. Vain, vain sinä vain, sait mut itkemään ei kukaan kyyneliään, voi kätkeä Me istutamme puun ja varjoissa kuun voimme vain odottaa Joudun taas… taas, taas, taas Sen kaiken jälleen, jälleen kokemaan… Pois luotain karkasit 3. Anna, anna mun syleillä puuta ikuista, se mua lohduttaa Kerran, siemen alkoi itää mutta en voinut tietää turhaanko odotan Sua vielä kerran, syliini En koskaan päästäis’, luotain pois, milloinkaan
Näetkö sen, jälkeen vuorovesien puun rakkauden joka vain kasvaa ainiaan
Daa-da-da-daa, daa-da-da-daa…
4. Tässä maailmassa huomisessa Täytyy mun päästää kaikesta surusta
Seuraathan mua, pimeimmäs’ yös’ yös’, yös’, yös’
Jossa ainoa, valo silmissäis’ on
Näetkö sen, jälkeen vuorovesien puun rakkauden joka vain kasvaa ainiaan
Daa-da-da-daa, daa-da-da-daa…
Jos mä kuolisin, kaiken jättäisin mut sua en milloinkaan – en milloinkaan – en milloinkaan En sua jättäisi kokonaan, kätken sut… kätken sut sydämeeni…
The title and the theme of this song derives and was inspired from the penguin short story in the Disney film The Three Caballeros (1944). I saw it first time on a VHS in the 1980s and got it as a gift one memorable Christmas. The animated short tells the story of a penguin living in the South Pole. He doesn’t appreciate the cold conditions at all and dreams of sun, warmth and palm trees. I totally relate to that :).
Also, the title refers to the cyber punk science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick, which the movie Blade Runner (1982) was based on.
Hope you enjoy this trance of the past! More to come, stay tuned.
Here’s my newest song – an electric guitar ballad: “The Lynx at My Home” (2016).
This song is dedicated to my cat and all the cats I have loved in my life.
The track will be in the upcoming album Tree of Love – and Other Ballads from the Darkened Sun. Featuring f.ex. acoustic/electric guitar and piano ballads, celt and medieval inspired songs.
The ambient soundscape in the beginning and in the end refers to the 2nd verse about sinking to the bottom of the sea… That’s how I imagine it to sound like. It also represents the inner world of cat – that we can only dream about of ever understanding (no more than ourselves)…
EDIT February 25th, 2017: Song version updated – some tuning issues were fixed.
Here’s the classical and symphonic orchestral main theme music from the upcoming post-apocalyptic film Soulweaver: Requiem for Earth.
Jukka Eronen: Anima Dea – Soulweaver Symphony (2013) [download or play the mp3, if the player above doesn’t show up] (3:31)
And here is a new 2016 Dark Ambient Rendition:
Avalkis: Anima Dea (2016 Dark Rendition) [download or play the mp3, if the player above doesn’t show up] (4:58)
There will be over two hours of classical symphonic, ambient, dark ambient, electronic, trance and experimental music for the two Soulweaver: Requiem for Earth Soundtracks. They will be available on CD and as downloadable MP3.
Here’s my newest song – a guitar ballad, called “Scorpion” (2016). Hope you like it!
This is the first released song with my new artist name Avalkis. The track will be in the upcoming album Tree of Love – and Other Ballads from the Darkened Sun. Featuring f.ex. acoustic/electric guitar and piano ballads, celt and medieval inspired songs.
Thanks to Matti, Hanne and Onni for our recent live band sessions and jammings that inspired me to finish this song faster than I would have otherwise! (There might be a rock version with our band at some point when we have time with our busy schedules.)
UPDATE: Due to request from my good friend and artist Joonas here is the whole “Scorpion” song with the ambient intro that originally belonged with it :).
1. If I find you, will you be my true… in this life, or the next
Will you be my, guiding angel that I’ve yearned, for so many years
2. A light that always shines, please come back to my loving arms I have come for… your love
That is true… pure and beyond Will you know me… There’s so much to feel
3. I have a scorpion, crawling down my neck it’s trying to sting, but it cannot hurt
’cause there’s an antidote, running in my veins It is your love, that I can always trust
4. I don’t know where… else to turn to When I am home sick, far away
A distant stranger, becoming a friend I have become, someone I once knew
5. Will you follow, will you see me Do you know us, there’s so much to learn
I am here to stay, not giving any lessons still you’re the treasure, I almost gave away
” Can I give you, all that I have for what I am, and what’s left of me
Can I give you, all that I have for what I am, and what’s left of me ”
PS. The original working title for this song was “A Seed of Hope” which referred to “Acid of Hope”. Because it’s interesting to note that the base for this song is originally an acid trance song I composed in 1998. That might explain some of the sounds and melodies appearing in the final build-up :). Also a certain 1980s/1990s nostalgia is present. I will release the trance version too later.
Summer Island refers to the islands of Tammisaari (“Oak Island”, Ekenäs in Swedish) that is a very dear city to me here in the south of Finland. I’ve also lived there for over a year. My favorite and most beautiful forests are in Tammisaari. A few years ago I once swam to a near-by island there in the summer. At the half way I realized my energy was very limited and I didn’t have any water with me.
With the energy I had left in me I made it to the rocky shore of the island and had an experience of “an evolutionary flashback” — I felt how a fish came to the solid ground for the first time ever and its fins growing to legs. It felt like seeing and remembering millions of years back in a few seconds.
I studied the island. There is this old symmetrical tree with two big branches in a V-shape. I’ve picked this tree and the island as inspiration for The Blue Forest of Wish to appear in my Springbringer graphic novel. The actual tree is also featured in winter-time on the Soulweaver film, with the moonlight shining in the middle.
In the impromptu summer extreme swim when I left the island I noticed a group of sheep watching me. It felt like a bizarre scene from an art house film because I hadn’t noticed them upon my arrival.
Fortunately I made it back from the isle. And have carried water with me ever since.
Theme music for our upcoming Sci-Fi platform computer game RoboScorp. Epic slow ambient/trance with symphonic elements:
A completely improvised piece from 2011 on my grandparents’ Ed. Seiler piano from 1952. The piano has never been toned since September 30th 1955, making the sound, melodies and music quite haunting.
Also thanks to Liis for suggesting the harmony multi-vocals :).
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