My new venture, Stems.cc, is taking its first humble steps. It is a site built around collaborative music making and remixing. A site that encourages openness in an industry plagued with protectiveness and copyrights. Because of the nature of Stems, all songs must be released under Creative Commons license. By the way, a stem, in musical [...]

It’s been ages since the last update, but here’s a new song to make up for it. I was playing around in dropped-D tuning and the basic tune came out pretty painlessly. I also play an irish tin flute in the interludes. Semira sings beautifully as always and I’m really happy with the outcome.  

Last night, I released the first version of my new app, Chain. It’s a motivational tool based on a method by Jerry Seinfeld. It motivates you to do things you want to do daily, e.g. “Read book” or “Do stretches”. Each day you do something, you mark it in Chain and after a while you have [...]

Photographer Nina Merikallio was featured in the latest issue of 125 Magazine and she also did a short film for them. She wanted to use one of my songs for the music and I was happy to make a special edit of the track. Check it out. Like our Läkerol film posted before, this was [...]