Heyyy everyone!
Now it happened, our first official single is out!! You can get it from iTunes, Spotify and its on YouTube also. Wohooo!
We are also Viikon Teho – Push of the Week on YleX radio:
It is time for us to announce, that we got signed with Warner Music Finland! We are super grateful to work with this amazing team!
This is just the beginning, thank YOU for supporting us since the beginning.
With all our love,
E&M
Helloo!
Thank you so much for an amazing gig at Kallio Kukkii and Ilokivi, Jyväskylä. We love you!
We just found out that we are on the Himotuimmat, Most wanted song of the week at YleX!!
Tomorrow our single is out on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube. Stay tuned and get ready! 
Much love,
E&M
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Helloooo!
It´s been a while since the last post. Eva got a cold and is still sneezing day and night and we´ve been quite busy with finishing our album. We are recording couple more songs at the most amazing studio in the heart of Helsinki, Punavuori. The studio is Fried Music. We got to know to Arttu Peljo, our mixing engineer and recording friend He is the best guy to work with us and has extreme amount of patience with us artists.. Go Arttu!
Yesterday we had our first show at the most legendary rockclub in Finland, Tavastia. (www.tavastiaklubi.fi) We were playing with our good friend and bassist Ville Kyttälä and tried it out with amazing drummer Jooel. It went really well even though Eva was still a little bit sick. The audience was so beautiful and gave us tons of energy. Thank youuu everyone who came out last night! The main act, “Emma Salokoski Ensemble” was just unbelievable and her third album, Valoa pimeään, just came out last week. (It’s also on Spotify !!) Oh and it starts with Eva´s song “Rikkinäinen Kompassi” Emma’s Ensemble was a perfect blend between band and string quartet… Just perfect.
Tomorrow we are going to Fried Music for one more day to finish up vocals and some other overdubs. That said we can proudly say that the album is so close to be ready !
Saturday we have two shows, 1pm at Kallio Kukkii festival, Helsinki and 9.30pm at Ilokivi, Jyväskylä. This will be a great weekend for us, hopefully for you too!
Thank you for following,
E&M
Hej!
We are playing a show at Korjaamo, Helsinki this Saturday 28.4. This will be one of the few shows we have with the whole band in the near future so you better come! Also, before us a beautiful and talented Sansa plays her captivating and beautiful songs. Check her out here http://www.myspace.com/sansamusic I promise, you will fall in love. More information on the show: https://www.facebook.com/events/361392870570850/
See you on Saturday guys!
Lots of love,
E&M
Heyhey,
we just had a beeeautiful weekend guys. Our new family member Pico took us bravely through fire and storm, it was quite an intense weather on the road! To make it clear, Pico is a car.
Friday we had more of a warming up show in Klubi, Tampere. We were playing before a sweet finnish band Regina (http://www.last.fm/music/Regina). It was such a great gig for us, we reached lots of new audience! During songs like “Feet in the Water”, Eva really had to hold her tears when half of the new audience was singing the whole song along. Wow!! What a feeling.. Its such a strong connection between us as artists and the people, you guys, who come see us live. Thank you.
Saturday we performed with our drummer Tatu in Hämeenlinna, Suisto-klubi. Thank youuuu Hämeenlinna, you were a great audience! We really had so much fun and will definitely come back! But the next time we´ll choose another restaurant, we ate way too much just before the show 
Will not say the restaurant name, it was good but maybe a bit too much for us.. haha. Anyway we made it through with honor!
This week is nicely filled with interviews, photo shoots and a show in Jyrock, Jyväskylä! It´s already sold out, but the place Vakiopaine has big windows, come lurk through if its a nice weather!
Lots of love,
E&M
AND THE SPRING IS HERE! Wohooo!
Sunday is a great day for writing blog. Sun is shining and everyone is taking it very easy today.
We went for a run in the morning and my oh my, it was amazing. The forrest we ran in was full of stunningly beautiful big trees, little rivers and ponds. What made our perfect jogging even more perfect was Runkeeper, our new best friend and an application for iPhone that guides you while you run. At the end it shows you a map of your route and all.. Anyways, funny toy. Also its incredible how sport and exercise makes you feel better. Physically of course but even more mentally. It’s been quite stressful to work on this album just on our own so a jog couple times a week totally cures the mind out of stress! We haven´t really worked today because it´s important to take days off.. Here’s one pic from the pond:
We are almost ready with the recordings and all. We are working with a great italian artist Sabrina Gabrielli who will make our album artwork. It will look goooood, we can’t wait to share it with you all! Even though it’s amazing to do this album just the two of us, it gets quite difficult sometimes. We are too close to the music to say if this vowel and this rhythm on the lyrics is good or not. Though, we can decide every single thing on our own, which makes this album even more personal. But after recording for couple of months, we came to the conclusion that for the second album we’ll get a producer to work with us Here’s a pic from one week back when we recorded some keyboards with our good friend and family member Arno in Mere, near Paris:
Next week will be important for us, because we are starting to work with a label! We can’t tell more yet but during next week you and we will know more. We’re super excited and can’t wait to start working with them
New shows have been announced (more to come later on) and as usual, you’ll find all of them, past and upcoming gigs, on the right——->
Take care and stay tuned for more news..
Love from Paris,
E&M
Salut,
we are still alive! Frozen but alive! And the album is starting to sound reeeeeal goooood… There has been quite a lot of difficulties though. First of all, it has been really cold to record vocals (imagine yourself singing in +5 celcius): Normally its not this cold in South-West. Then, Manu lost his voice for couple of days and its still a bit rough but sounds good for some songs! The biggest misfortune was when Manus computer crashed. LUCKILY we had bunch of back-ups so we didnt loose anything super important. Took us two days to receive Protools, installed it to Evas laptop and it works! Woohoo! But hey, lets not only talk about the bad stuff for there are a positive side to all of the previous negative situations:
1. The coldness made our immune system super strong, now cold doesnt feel so cold. Also, if we`ll ever have a gig in an iglu or somewhere else cold, we`ll be just fine.
2. Manus rusty and a bit sick voice sounds SO good on couple of tunes!
3. We lost some of Manus vocals tracks when the computer crashed, redid them and they sound much better now.
Here are couple of pictures from my iPhone (so not amazing quality):
Eva & Manu Ilosaarirock 2012
Good news! We are announcing that we are playing in Ilosaarirock 2012! It’s one of the best festivals in Finland and it has been Eva’s teenage dream to play there! The line-up overall is really good (Anthony & The Johnsons, The xx…) , we are thrilled.
Check Ilosaarirock 2012 out here: http://www.ilosaarirock.fi/2012/bandit.php
We have other amazing gigs coming up and we will keep on updating our tour dates here.
Now we are off to bed. Tomorrow we will finish up a brand new song and start tracking down In Montreal.
Thanks guys, stay tuned!
E&M
Tags: back ups, ilosaarirock, iphone, negative situations, teenage dream
It. is. Cold. Here..
Nevertheless, we are recording vocals! We feel like such warriors fighting against this bizarrely cold weather in the Gers, South-France. Well it´s actually not that cold, especially for a finn (-8c elcius or so) but its FREEZING inside the old house ´cause there´s absolutely no insolation whatsoever. And usually it´s not this cold around here. But we have a lot (I mean, a lot lot lot) of cloths on and liters of tea so.. we´ll be fine! And it´s really beautiful here. Though, if you guys won´t hear anything from us in the next, say, couple of days, you´ll know we didn´t make it. Haha.
Today we found a good spot for the mic and started tracking Eva´s vocals for “Feet in the water”. It feels just perfect to have all the time in the world over here, no hurry, no other activities to interrupt us (except ridiculously good food and beautiful nature) and no pressure of being in a studio with limited time and stress to sing the best you ever can on that very moment. Its so peaceful here! We are sooo dreaming of building our own good studio, hopefully we can start someday soon!
Oh, we are also happy to announce upcoming shows soon! As usual, they´ll be up here, Facebook and on www.evamanu.com
All the best for you, stay warm and tuned and so will we!
Love,
E&M
Ciao!
We are moving out from our apartment in Kruununhaka in two days! Holy moly. After that we are back to our lifestyle: homeless Even it is scary, somehow it is so inspiring to live in the moment and not knowing where we will be in two months. I mean, we do know in which country we will be but we have no idea whatsoever where we will be living. Oh well, it will all figure out by itself for sure! It´s just another new chapter.
We will have our last show on Thursday. That will take place in Kanneltalo, Helsinki, in a school festival Close Encounters. The school is Pop&Jazz Conservatory, where Eva used to study before moving to the States. There will be bands from many countries, including the States: a band from Berklee College of Music will be there also! Nostalgic for us, it is the school where we two met and studied for 2 years. We will be playing first show with another drummer, Tatu Rönkkö and with Ville Kyttälä on bass. This show will be aaawesome, if you happen to be in the area, definitely come check it out! And come say hi to us! You can find tickets and more from here: http://popjazz.mycashflow.fi/product/4/ Tickets will be available on the door also, 5€ each.
Whaaaat do I mean by having our “last show”? Well. We are going to France on Friday 3rd. We´ll go to South-France to finish up our album recordings So while we do this, we won´t have any shows. Though, we will post a video blog from the studio (that we will build ourselves to Manu´s dads´farm!). You can follow up the process here and on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/evamanumusic After we are done with the recording we will go to Paris for about a month and after we´ll come back to Finland to play more shows and… release the album!!!! Can´t wait for that day!
What else.. Oh! We will be playing on many GREAT festivals this summer, more details to come when the dates will get confirmed.
Again, lots LOTS of happiness and stay tuned guys!
Eva & Manu
Hey hey hey!
Ahhh what a weekend.. And it´s finally winter in Helsinki! Yesterday it was -7 Celsius, lots of snow and hot chocolate! The snow just brings so much light even if its quite dark most of the day.
So. About our weekend. On Friday we had an awesome show in Rauma, Finland. This city is MAGICAL! It was the first time for us there and will definitely not be the last one. The part of Old Rauma is just breathtaking. We had our acoustic duo gig at Kahvila Soppi. Its a new (May 2011) organic cafe where you can also have pizzas, pastas, salads and real Italian ice-cream. Kahvila Soppi is founded by couple of good friends and the vibe in that place is something you just have to experience. Check out their website, Facebook and more http://www.kahvilasoppi.fi/
Saturday afternoon after getting a cool sight-seeing of Old Rauma from locals, we drove back to Helsinki. Luckily it was a sunny day, because we had an old car that barely stayed on the road So we came back to Helsinki and played couple of our songs at Lavaklubi, Kansallisteatteri (National Theater). Two actresses Anna Paavilainen and Marja Salo hosts a club called Omatuntoklubi every second Saturday of each month. It´s sort of an open stage, so if you feel like you have something to say to the world, maybe just one song, I definitely recommend you to check out Omatuntoklubi https://www.facebook.com/pages/Omatuntoklubi/240525342668231
Alrighty! Next week we will be releasing a new video, live from the studio. Stay tuned, up and happy!
Love,
E & M
