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Multi-instrumentalist Tapio Mattlar has played in several bands for a total of more than 50 years. At first, his instrument was the electric bass. Gradually, the guitar, sitar, hurdy-gurdy, viking lyre and numerous other stringed instruments as well as shaman and Native American drums entered the repertoire. Tapio started recording his first solo album at the barn attic of Harju traditional rural landscape farm at the end of 2019, after first learning how to use the recording software. Now three albums have been released and new music is created every winter.
– I record my music so that I compose it at the same time. When I start a new song, I usually just have an idea for it, which starts to take shape in different directions during the recording as I add new tracks and instruments. I often wonder about the end result myself, and sometimes I feel like I'm just a bystander in what kind of melodies and musical ideas my subconscious produces. I don't always like the end result so much that I would like to publish the song, so the new album has always been compiled, in my opinion, with the most successful takes from the previous winter's recordings. I only have time to make music between November and April, because the farm employs me full-time for six months, Tapio says.
– Musically, my third album continues mainly along the same lines as its two predecessors, that is, the listener is challenged. The music is mostly composed throughout, and thirty different instruments have been played. There are also farm sounds such as the bleating of sheep, the buzzing of a chainsaw and the knocking of an electric shepherd. No "unnatural" synthetic sounds have been used yet, but all sounds have been created by modifying natural sounds. The singer on two tracks is Tapio's wife Marja Mattlar.
