Slowly Walking At 45 Special, Oulu

Sunshine and a cup of tea

Definitely for our own, but also for the amusement of others we've just finished recordings for our upcoming first album. T-mu has done a tremendous job at Not Even Productions mixing our album to its fullest potential. A few nods here and little to the left and we're done.   The recordings took place in several locations, mainly in Oulu and Tampere though in different studio-like environments. Nonetheless I feel like it's going to sound exactly the way we want it to, and we've -at least I have- enjoyed this whole ride. Still, it's an even higher mountain to climb now if we want -and we do- this album spread and heard as far and in as many a place possible and also if we'd get to play more gigs than before, well that would be just super.   The whole  let's-make-an-album-thing has been in our heads from the start but truly kicked off last September when I visited T-mu in Tampere. We recorded bases for 10 songs. There was some new songs and some old, slightly altered. Our style has been known for jumping from side to side and borrowing from style to style still maintaining some kind of focal point and consensus. I think. We didn't want this record to be written about, or under one topic, since this whole thing was done in pieces and over time. And even the 600km distances of our band makes us use our imagination and our computers a little more, it was fun and a hugely innovative process. Besides, we decided the album name to be Inertia, which can be extended to be labeled as a pseudo force (in centrifugal things) or a fictional force. So that included I think we had a quite broad field of choice.  And because it's a mechanical term it allowed us to try some really fun stuff on the side. I think it's going to be a funny, rockin' little package with shitloads of attitude and g-strings. -M.

Damn we're good (I think)

We managed to record eight drum tracks with Musti in six hours! I'm not kidding and I find it hard to believe myself. It just happened. We listened to the tracks straight through and we both we're happy with the results. CRAZY. Today we will start building a bass stack and first record some demo-guitars in order to get Alexi to play the bass lines nicely. Or actually not so nicely :)

So this is where we are at: eight songs and two more to go. The two that are to be recorded are more or less acoustic songs, so there will be some suitcase drumming and skiffle / junk / influence involved, no need to bang the drums on these two.

-tmu

The new promo pics by Sakari Piippo.

The almost minimum version of Junkus Minor, featuring rather large acoustic guitar, a manjo, suitcase bass drum, Bontempi System 5, big yellow balls, a broken cymbal and a mystical snare drum.

This was taken on autumn 2010

It is us playing in the tram!!!

Junkus Minor - "All We Have" is track seven from our new album Inertia.

Musti

(C) Timo Utterström

 A simple video for Wonderboy. Photos by Timo Utterström.

This was our ride on our gig in Helsinki on Wednesday. Groovy.