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Jaybird

Posted on October 4th, 2012 by Sauli Hirvi

Jaybird is a graphic novel illustrated by a friend of mine Lauri Ahonen and written by his brother Jaakko. During the spring and summer we worked on an iPad app version of it, with dynamic, smoothly changing ambient soundtrack and visual effects for certain pages. It turned out great. Unfortunately, Apple had taken a stand [...]

New Song – The Woods

Posted on August 17th, 2011 by Sauli Hirvi

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.  

125 Magazine – Hill of Crosses

Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Sauli Hirvi

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 [...]

New Song – Closing Time

Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Sauli Hirvi

Semira and I managed to finish an old song of mine that had been lying in a drawer for several years. It sounds like a decarbonated beer at an empty pub, where the upholstery smells like cigarettes and Rohypnol.