Background :: Ari-jalokinos

The 6st ring

At 2003 I had enough working on demo's alone in my basement. I managed to convince my brother Risto (1953-2014) to join me and start a duo. We played irish- styled folk and our songs on gigs. 2004 we recorded our first promo CD to get more live gigs. "The 6st ring - Promo"

By the end of the year I felt we needed a full album. We had already half of the material needed, and I wrote the rest during the project. For drumtracks we found Jarmo "Jake" Hangaslammi who actet not only as a studiomusician but also toured with us.

Four years of hard labour finally saw the deadline at the end of 2007. "Viiala blues" -album, which in fact, was more a good quality demo if anything else. I recorded all the tracks with my Yamaha AW16G. The learning curve for recording and producing was steep.

A longtime dream is about to happen

Ten years later it was about time I tried again. This time it's going to be progressive rock. Partially the material dates back to the end of 70-tees whilst some of it will be written during the project.