Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Bezosin myötä tilanne toki muuttunut/muuttumassa, mutta 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026”low-key prolific”open.substack.comAn incomprehensive list of things sitting in my draweri’m pretty good at starting things 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I recorded it at my parents summer cabin around midsummer. Thanks to everyone who has been going back and listening to these songs with me ❤️ 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Who knows how deep we have to dig before we re-emerge from under the rubble. Musically the song was mostly inspired by Scott Walker and Isao Tomita’s version of Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025The bulk of the material in this project still resides on Bandcamp only - including The Awkward Handshake, which I wrote as a sort of goodbye to the pandemic era. Of course the pandemic era kept returning for the next couple of years and sadly we are still dealing with the aftermath. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I released it together as a Bandcamp only bonus track to the Quarantine music EP - a collection of 5 favourite songs that I released in a more ”official” way so you can listen to them on all the streaming services. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 25: The Awkward Handshake (bonus track) Rel. 22nd June 2020 tuomo.bandcamp.com/album/quaran... This was the last song of the Quarantine Music series (not counting the couple of tracks that were left unfinished and unreleased but might still see daylight some day).tuomo.bandcamp.comQuarantine Music 1, by Tuomo7 track album 130
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025This is a song that I'm really happy with and love to play live. Check it out at the 25 minute mark (features my most epic synth solo)youtu.beTUOMO | Retrosonic Pro Audio Live SessionsYouTube video by Retrosonic Pro Audio 010
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The lockdowns were over and summer was upon us, it felt like we were moving on from the whole situation. Of course we'd be back in isolation a few months later, but summer 2020 was a blissful break. I was writing songs about "regular things" for a change. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 24: Don't hide your heart (Rel. June 5th 2020) The lyrics of this song have nothing to do with the pandemic and in a way that tells a lot about the pandemic situation in that moment.tuomo.bandcamp.comDon't hide your heart, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 120
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The first wave of Covid was still happening, but it started slowing down. The initial pandemic shock had given way to exhaustion and this song was an expression of that. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 23: The New Normal (rel. May 22nd 2020) This was the last release of the main streak of the Quarantine Music project - there were a couple more songs in the pipeline, but they had to wait a couple of months.tuomo.bandcamp.comThe New Normal, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 110
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 22: Lockdown party (w/ Tapio Backlund & HEINI IKONEN) (rel. May 16th 2020) I wanted to make a a P-Funk party track but it morphed into a house/eurodance track. Heini and Tapio both killing it as per usual.tuomo.bandcamp.comLockdown party (w/ Tapio Backlund & Heini Ikonen), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 010
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It's from his 1995 album Conversation Peace, I tried to imagine what it would have sounded like if he'd recorded it in the 70s. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 21: Taboo to love (rel. May 14th 2020) Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! I recorded this cover version of his stunning 'Taboo to love' for his 70th 5 years ago.tuomo.bandcamp.comTaboo to love (Stevie Wonder), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025 The mood took me back to the early days of our band Quintessence, so I just had to have Emma sing on it - turned out perfect. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 20 : See you on the other side w/ Emma Salokoski & Petteri Sariola (Released Apr 30th 2020) Cousin Petteri sent me a folksy guitar riff that somehow transformed into this late 90s 4heroesque jazzy dnb track.tuomo.bandcamp.comSee you on the other side (w/ Emma Salokoski, Petteri Sariola), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 130
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 24/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 19 : Just another saturday (released Apr 24th 2020) This is my biggest "guilty pleasure" track from the project. I love making bass-heavy electronic beats for fun, even though I'm not really a club goer. I'd love to hear this from a proper sound system one day.tuomo.bandcamp.comJust another Saturday, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 20/04/2025...you realize that spring is actually here and that feeling was amplified manyfold that year. It was still peak pandemic times and the anxiety returned pretty quickly, but there was that little moment there that felt okay. Aarne played some awesome percussion tracks for this one. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 20/04/2025 #QuarantineMusicThrowback 18 : Did you forget to be afraid today? w/Aarne Riikonen (rel. Apr 20 2020) I remember walking to my studio one morning, feeling the sun on my face - there's this certain feeling when, after a long winter...tuomo.bandcamp.comDid you forget to be afraid today? (feat. Aarne Riikonen), by Tuomofrom the album Quarantine Music 1 110
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Google the term - you will mostly find links to articles from the covid era. After the pandemic... pretty quiet - which is kind of the point of the song. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 17 : Invisible (released Apr 16th 2020) This is one of the best songs I wrote for the Quarantine Music project. I still like to play it live. It's about "essential workers" and the respect they deserve but rarely get.tuomo.bandcamp.comInvisible, by Tuomofrom the album Quarantine Music 1 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025P.S. Shout out to Good Life Coffee Roasters for taking home the prizes for best Finnish coffee last weekend! 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025…join in - naturally he nailed it. While the track started as a kind of joke, I did spend a lot of time tweaking minor production details and especially finding the right vibe for my vocals - that’s why I think it works. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025…with comedic elements in my music. But it was covid times and I’d decided to do whatever I felt like and this thing popped up so I just had fun with it. I wrote a topical second verse and asked fellow coffee enthusiast Tommy Lindgren aka Father Metro from Don Johnson Big Band to… 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 16: Cute Baristas w/Tommy Lindgren (rel. Apr 14th 2020) This was a banger. I’d had this silly rap verse & hook about my coffee habit lying around for years and I thought I’d probably never use it for anything, since a) I am not a rapper and b) I’m often a bit stingy…tuomo.bandcamp.comCute Baristas 2020 (feat. Tommy Lindgren), by Tuomofrom the album Quarantine Music 1 111
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 15 : Omnipresent (w/ Lauri Porra, Jarmo Saari, Eero Johannes) (Rel Apr 9th 2020) This was one of the more experimental tracks in the lot. I think I was going for an ”Aphex Twin doing Minneapolis Funk”-vibe or something. Wonderful contributions from the featured musicians.tuomo.bandcamp.comOmnipresent (w/ Lauri Porra, Jarmo Saari, Eero Johannes), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 020
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 14 : Monday afternoon (Released Apr 6th 2020) Here’s another song that I included on the EP and has also become one I love to play live.tuomo.bandcamp.comMonday Afternoon, by Tuomofrom the album Quarantine Music 1 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I was getting more listens and people supporting on bandcamp too and even the Finnish music press had started noticing. Out of the next 6 songs I released, 5 ended up on the compilation EP(linked). This song still stands out to me. Jarmo Saari plays a gorgeous guitar solo in the end. 001
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 13 : Antibody (w/Jarmo Saari) (released 4.4.2020) We're getting into what I think was the creative peak of the Quarantine music project. 3 weeks and 13 songs deep, I was taking it a bit more seriously but still having a lot of fun with it.tuomo.bandcamp.comAntibody (feat. Jarmo Saari), by Tuomofrom the album Quarantine Music 1 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Jutta Rahmel recorded some beatifully moody improvisations on her kantele for me. I found the bits I liked the best and built a beat around them. My old friend Heidi sent me a poem and I asked her to record it. I wrote and sang some extra lyrics. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 12: Aamuyö (w/ Jutta Rahmel, Heidi Paju ) (released Apr 2nd 2020) This was one of those strange collaborative tracks that almost certainly wouldn't have happened under any other circumstances.tuomo.bandcamp.comAamuyö (w/ Jutta Rahmel, Heidi Paju), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 30/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 11: Solicitedly Another song about touch or the lack thereof. I really really like the synths on this one.tuomo.bandcamp.comSolicitedly, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Here's me playing this & other songs in a studio with my amazing trio youtu.be/bjM-8ScnP-Y?...youtu.beTUOMO | Retrosonic Pro Audio Live SessionsYouTube video by Retrosonic Pro Audio 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This is one of the funkiest songs I’ve written and it’s become a live favourite. The lyrics are about growing old and becoming boring - a process that seemed to speed up exponentially during Covid. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 10 : Saturday night w/Mikko Pettinen This started from a simple groove that I asked my old bandmate, trumpet master Mikko Pettinen to play on. The groove had an early 2000s neo soul vibe to it and Mikko brought a Roy Hargrovesque vibe to it.tuomo.bandcamp.comSaturday night (w/ Mikko Pettinen), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 220
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The switching time feel actually inspired me to write this song about the mental rollercoaster the pandemic had me on, as was already apparent from the few previous songs I'd released. The music here tries to hit that sweet spot between Marvin Gaye and Herbie Hancock. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025...just find some bit I like and loop it or whatever. Some of the takes were 90bpm with a 3/4 funk feel and others were 120bpm with a 4/4 shuffle feel. As I was listening through them I really started liking the switch between the feels, or moods... see where I'm going here? 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025...can send me some tracks. A little music nerding here: I asked him to do something with an 12/8 afro feel and sent some random reference song with a tempo I liked. I guess my instruction were a little bit vague and he just recorded a few different short jams, with the idea that I'll... 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowBack 9: Mood Swings (w/ André Sumelius) One of the most inspiring things about the Quarantine Music project was the spontaneous collabos. This was a fun one - the drummer André Sumelius, who lives in SF, said he has a drum recording set up in his home studio and he...tuomo.bandcamp.comMood Swings (w/ André Sumelius), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 101
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I asked my buddy Bentality to write some lyrics and record vocals for it. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 8 : Lil' Break feat. Bentality After the deep-end melancholy of 'Isolation' I went pretty much to the opposite end with this uplifting boogie track with nods to George Clinton and the Tom Tom Club. Also had a little De La-vibe.tuomo.bandcamp.comLil' Break feat. Bentality, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This was one of the tracks I considered placing on the Quarantine Music EP I released at the end of the project, but decided to leave it out in the end - not sure why. Maybe it felt too dark later on. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 24/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 7 : Isolation This melancholy piece was based on a beat I'd made on the MPC earlier, chopping up some acoustic guitar i sampled off an old prog rock record. It has a trip hop vibe and a lot of Moog One moodiness.tuomo.bandcamp.comIsolation, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 110
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I was considering putting his picture in the cover art as well, but decided to remix a photo of William S. Burroughs instead - he famously said ”Language is a virus from space”. 000
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Around this time the oval office orange was bashing China of course but had also recently started Space Force. I sampled and scrambled some of his speeches for the intro. 110
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I liked the dubby vibe of this beat so I layered some Moog synths and went all in with the Space Echo. I first did the vocals as a full on David Bowie impression for laughs but dialed it back a little bit for the final version. 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2025#quarantinemusicthrowback 6 : Space Virus This was the first collaborative effort in the Quarantine Music series. The incomparable Jazz Kuramatto aka Jussi Miettola sent me a bunch of weird recordings of him jamming on the drums with some circuit bent keyboards.tuomo.bandcamp.comSpace Virus (w/ Jazz Kuramatto), by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 100
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The spreading pandemic was causing real anxiety and I guess the only thing I could do to keep my mind from spiraling was making music. As I said the title Fear Not felt relevant. It's not a bad song - a bit of a 90s acid jazz vibe, but that's what all the kids want now, right? 010
Tuomo @tuomomusic.bsky.social · 18/03/2025#QuarantineMusicThrowback 5 : Fear Not Another old song with a title that felt newly relevant in 2020. At this point my Quarantine music project was really picking up speed and I was recording and mixing a song a day at best. It's weird how fast you can work if you focus on it completely.tuomo.bandcamp.comFear Not, by Tuomotrack by Tuomo 120
