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10/29/2012

Elektropol aired at Radio Eazy

Elektropol visited program called Styrkkari at local (Pori, Finland) radio station Eazy 101 Mon 29th October. Both previous links are in Finnish.

I spoke about making electronic music and about various related topics at the program.

Tracks played were from the debut album The Phoenix. There was also a summer single called Damn Hot from Phat Operations played as well as one fresh track from up'n'coming album of Elektropol (name to be announced).

The track is named Arctopolis, which refers to City of Pori (also known as "City of Bears", Arctopolis in latin). It was also my theme track when I just recently was one of the candidates for local City Council.

As you can see, the Elektropol blog is under renovation and will be completed as soon as other projects are finished (might take some time...)

Good ambient sounds need inner peace as main ingredient and that has been hard to find recently. But stay tuned! :)

5/12/2012

Elektropol - The Phoenix airs at YLE Radio 1

We just got information that some track from The Phoenix album by Elektropol will be aired in Finnish YLE Radio1 6th November. The program that airs the track is called Avaruusromua which translates as "space garbage". It suits fine for The Phoenix - the sounds could be described as spacious and rusty.

Elektropol - The Phoenix

Elektropol has reased its debut album, The Phoenix. Album features eight tracks. The Phoenix tells us a story about The Phoenix. One flight of this marvelous creature to observe the World, and to learn from it.

Cover image illustration by artist Jaakko Heiskanen (c) 2011, concepting Jani Wahlman (c) 2011.

You can listen full tracks with the highest quality at Soundcloud.

 Mp3 streaming through Finnish Mikseri.net.

The First Life of The Phoenix

Elektropol was caught to an interview with some explanatory questions. Check it out!

You are publishing an ambient-oriented debut album after working for many years with it. What does this album mean to you?

It means a lot. In principle the album includes stories from a trip 27 years long this far. These stories remind me about some stages of life every time I hear them.

The album is a sort of a diary or more like an yearbook about my life this far. There has been many adventures but the release of this album has been uncertain. The completion of the album is kind of a milestone for myself. When you work hard it gives results.

Mr. Elektropol, Jani Wahlman
The first track of the album was originally done over six years ago. How this is seen in the album and why it has taken this much time?

It is true that the first track of the album was formed already in 2005, but it has been kind of refurbished along the way of my evolution as an artist. I want to refine these things quite a lot before presentation. But perfection is a paradox.

There were also times I was afraid that my skills were not enough for publishing my own compositions. In addition during the studies in the Tampere University of Applied Sciences time was very scarce resource and I had to put something aside.

You were recently in a serious accident. Did this affect someway to your album?

My album project has had an unofficial name “kicked bastard” meaning that the project was kicked forwards whenever I had enough resources.

My accident made me understand that you never know what might happen to you and when the ability of executing your dreams is taken way.

The accident has affected to a lot of things and to my thoughts. For this “bastard” it certainly gave a kick.

Do you want to explain the name of the album, The Phoenix?

The Phoenix tells a lot about my personal life philosophy, about something that lies beneath all that I represent.

A man lives physically just once, but can spiritually die and be reborn many times during that physical lifetime, like a phoenix bird.

One should always dare to challenge his own beliefs and to continuously develop the vision about the world and the life.

As a whole, my album tells a story about The Phoenix to be born and to die, having one miraculous flight in between.

How would you describe the sounds that this album will include?

I don’t want to limit my style in a way or another. The idea is that in my music I just use sounds that are relevant to the story. There is a lot of clean and distorted piano sound, synths, guitars, vocoders and vocal samples.

Each composition has its own atmosphere. Those atmospheres range from dark to hopeful and from peaceful to somewhat energetic. But each composition has a touch of hope in it.

What are your influences?

I think that there are millions of them, not limited to musical acts, but couple of those musical ones include AIR, Giant Robot, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Denki Groove, Future Sound of London, Morcheeba, Moloko and Björn Olsson.

I have to say that my brother is also one musical genius having a talent that always amazes me.

How can one listen to your album when it’s released?

It is released through the internet for free. Probably we will use services such as Mikseri.net (in Finnish) and MySpace. Videos become available to Vimeo. You can already watch some Arcade Goodies from there.

Is there coming out music also in the future?

At the moment I have probably eleven albums in three separate projects planned. So I think The Phoenix won’t be the first and the last album of the Elektropol at the same time.

At the end of the interview, would you like to thank someone about this project?

First and foremost I want to give thanks to the Life and of course all the friends that have contributed to it. Friends are the one of the most important things in life.

Text and photo: Isabell Vanhatalo
Translation:
Electric Manor

Arcade Goodies, part 2

Before Elektropol releases its debut album, we will give you some Arcade Goodies - Never-finished tracks that were born during the album composing process.

The second Arcade Goodie will be Flipd. It is one of the most twisted tracks Elektropol has composed this far. 

Kill the Sandman:




Elektropol - Arcade Goodies

Before Elektropol releases its debut album, we will give you some Arcade Goodies - Never-finished tracks that were born during the album composing process.

The first Arcade Goodie will be "Ambiente". Quite a minimalistic track that features (surprisingly) analogue ambient pads with some other sound details.

Take a look: