Party: Juhana Iivonen (Finland)

Party: Juhana Iivonen (Finland)

Early 2008 i decided to do something with loads of the songs that i had been written over the years. I met a producer and guitarist Aki Haarala and after he had heard few of my tunes we decided to go to a countryside studio in Hollola for a long weekend to record songs with sound engineer Mika Seger. It was a good session and we continued to work in an other countryside studio session in Porvoo. Next Autumn, we had a record done and it was released by Ruuhi Records. After releasing i made a tour in Middle Europe including shows in Germany, France, England and Switzerland and also toured in Finland.
2010 i was invited to play in Bremen FolkArtNow festival and was sharing a stage same night with Italian songwriter Gipsy Rufina. We shared also same accommodation and shared few beers. Had fun together and decided to do a summer tour in Finland. Fulfilled the line-up with songwriter Lotta from Oulu we had a great two weeks tour drivin` couple of thousands kilometers across the country. Later on that summer we got an invitation from Antwerpen, Belgium by Peter Acoustic to do a split record together. We did it in project studio build in an old horse stable. Record was named after this recording place - Madam Fortuna and it was released by Aelice Recordings. 2011 we made long tour together including Finland and some Middle Europe.

While making time to time some solo tours i started to write songs hearing a small band playing those. Decided to produce myself a band record. In summer 2012 i gathered a group of musicians; Aki Haarala (guitar), Anssi Ahvenniemi (bass), Emil Luukkonen (Organs) and Mikael Seire (drums) and we went to Seawolf Studios in Helsinki to make some basic tracks. It was a great session and after few months we continued work in a Mankku Studio in Porvoo to make some overtracking. After some great mixing work of Mikko Raita we found out to have two EP`s done. Dust And A Smile EP and Native One EP.

September 2013 i toured with Tim Holehouse from UK in Czech Republic and Germany. In Germany we had a show in Weimar at club Kasseturm, that is a very special room in a cellar of Medieval tower, and that show was recorded by Arne Lakenmacher. It was a good feeling show, and so after some Arnes great soundwork, it`s now released as a live album.

These 3 latest records - Dust And A Smile EP, Native One EP and Live At Kasseturm album are all self-released and available as a downloads in Bandcamp and as a CDs from my shows.

... and there`s a tiny abondoned Chapel in Antwerpen, Belgium waiting for to capture some new songs. It will be almost summer by then ... :)

Cheers,
Juhana


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