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Moon Shot: Ein glücklicher Zufall · STAR FM Rocktalk

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Hi, hier ist Simon und willkommen beim Staff M Rock Talk.
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Bei uns im Sender schauen andauernd die unterschiedlichsten Rockgrößen vorbei.
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Klar, dass wir sie sofort ins Studio zerren und sie mit Fragen durchlöchern.
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Es geht um alles, neue Alben, alte Legenden und die besten Stories.
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Anfang des Jahres haben hier die finnischen Hardrocker Moonshot während ihrer
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Tournee vorbeigeschaut und ein bisschen was über ihr neues Album Thunderlast verraten.
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Im Gespräch erzählen Wille und Jussi außerdem, wie Moonshot überhaupt entstanden
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sind, warum ihr Sound bewusst offen bleibt und warum ihr liebstes deutsches Wort Freibad ist.
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Spoiler, die zwei waren verdammt gut drauf. Tja, und außerdem hatten sie auch
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noch ihre Gitarre dabei. Und was sie damit veranstaltet haben,
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das hört ihr am Ende vom Interview.
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Und damit viel Spaß beim Rocktalk mit Moonshot.
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Star FM Rock Talk.
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So, let's talk a little bit about your I mean, relatively new band Moonshot.
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I mean, you guys Ich bin jetzt schon seit...
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Wie viele Jahre ist es jetzt? Sechs, sieben Jahre.
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Aber ich meine, was ganz speziell über dich ist, dass du ein Finnish supergroup
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bist. Ich meine, du kommst aus von Finnland aus, wie auch.
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Wie kam das mit dem Zusammenhang in der ersten Zeit?
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Ja, das war eine Kombination von vielen lucky things.
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So, mein früherer Band, Disco Ensemble, hat sich in 2018 Und dann mich und Mikko und mich, wir haben,
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wir wollten eine neue Rock Band und einfach, und wir wollen das für die Liebe der Sport.
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Erstens war es nur mich und Mikko.
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Dann habe ich mich gefragt, Wille und ihn zu joinen.
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Das war eine spezielle Telefonnummer, die für drei Stunden dauerte.
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So we started to work on the songs right away. Then a bit later,
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next summer, 2019, it turned out that Henkka was available.
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So we just thought that, what the hell, let's ask if he would be interested.
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And then he heard the songs and so on. So he said that, yeah, let's do this.
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And to that point, we didn't even have a name. So we actually decided on the name a bit later.
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So but anyways that that's how moonshot was,
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formed yeah and everything what it happened what happens around this band that
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has you know it has happened like organically and without you know planning
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too much and it's like that's why i kind of like it because this band is like you know,
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it means for me like like happy accident after happy accident after happy accident and then we're here,
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it's like that that's the way it goes of course we're like you know hard workers and,
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we're really pushing things but still at the same time we try to maintain this
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kind of relaxed atmosphere this kind of like let's just play and see what happens,
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I always thought that when it comes to moonshot everything is a bonus,
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so that's the motto what do you mean with that because you haven't fought that
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far or what's the bonus I mean that like just because Because, you know.
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The fact that this band exists and is alive, I think that's a small miracle itself.
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And since we have so many kilometers and years behind us, so it would have been
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kind of, in a way, natural to just move on to other things.
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But we all just, you know, love this and we want to keep on doing this.
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And for me, you know, when it comes to Finland, the circus are really small
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when it comes to rock music.
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Und wie Gruppen und Leute, die Rockmusik in Englisch machen.
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So there are not that many people to pick from. So I think this is a miracle
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that these four guys actually are here and have this band at this age,
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you know, and time, you know.
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And all of the members, we really, you know, like and love this kind of,
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you know, music that we're doing, which is like, we don't have to think about
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that. Okay, this other one guy is like, you know, loving this tango thing.
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He's just doing this for Moonshot. Aber wir alle, wir kind of preen und leben,
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leben, you know, durch dieses kind of music, which is like...
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Es ist interessant, as you said, because like, you know, Finland as being as
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like, you know, not as many residents living there, it still has like an insane
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amount of like bands coming out of Finland, you know?
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So when you say like, it's like small circus of like bands doing English speaking
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or English language rock music, is it because there's like just so less people
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there? Or like, is it really just a very tiny scene where everybody knows everyone? It just feels like.
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Over the last, let's say, 15 years, 10 years, you know, when it comes to alternative
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rock music, there isn't that many people doing that, you know,
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and also singing in English.
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The metal scene is a different beast, you know.
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There's a lot more people involved in that and it kind of has its own things and so on.
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And of course, Henkka is from Metal Scene, but still, for example,
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he was a big fan of Wille's previous band, Labko, which is not metal.
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The alt-rock scene, I feel that it has been struggling in Finland over the,
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let's say, 15 years, 10 years.
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Yeah, and also it's like everybody wants to be in a band, but being a part of
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an internationally touring band isn't an easy thing to do if you have other
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life, other things happening in your life as well.
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So I think that's one thing that if you really want to make sacrifices,
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you know, for this, it means that, you know, you have to take the time from somewhere else.
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And that's something I think that which is like driving, you know,
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musicians to that way that it's easier to stay in Finland or move towards metal
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world, you know, or whatever, you know.
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So would you consider it in Finland easier to make it as like a metal band because it's like a.
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The logistics are just better for this kind of music because there's more people into it?
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I think so. The infrastructure and the traditions for that kind of music,
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everything is more evolved.
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As long as you're a good band, it's easier to get certain doors open than come
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to middle Europe, for example.
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And of course, because there are so many metal bands, the competition is quite
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hard. And only the best ones get to have a proper chance.
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So, that also means the quality of Finnish metal is really good.
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I mean, yeah. I mean, when you think about Finland in music,
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heavy metal comes to mind or like extreme metal and stuff.
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I mean, for me personally, I think the first thing I, where I met like Finnish
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rock music was like with the ESC with like Lori, you know, it was like the one
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thing that stands out to me still today.
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But you were saying like, you guys are playing like more alternative rock music.
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Wenn Leute listen to ihre Albums und stuff Es ist hart zu pute es in eine Niche
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oder ein proper Genre Es ist ein Merging von all sorts of stuff,
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Was sind die Sonic die wirklich stand out über Moonshot? Was definiert Sonnig-Leader-Band?
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I think that we are not trying to be too loud and we are not trying to,
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I mean, we are all, you know, even though we are like really,
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we know what we are doing, but we're not screaming it.
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Und es ist vielleicht etwas, dass viele Dinge passieren unter der Surface.
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Und es ist wie hidden heavy metal, ich würde sagen.
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Und es ist wie, dass das Heaviness ist, es ist, es ist, es ist,
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es ist da, aber es ist nicht, wir sind nicht, wir sind es in der most obvious
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Art, you know, if this ist answer.
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Das ist sehr, das ist sehr vague. Maybe you have a different take, too.
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Ja, für mich, ich denke, die Sonic-Referenz ist.
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Ich würde gerne zu rock-orientiert, hardcore bands und alt-rock bands von den,
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letzten 90ern, early 2000ern.
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Ich denke, das Sound ist wie ich begann, so es ist etwas, das ich schaffe,
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every time I produce a record. So that kind of, I can't get rid of it in good and in bad.
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So, and also let's say bands like, you know, The Punch and the Clarity of Rage
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Against the Machine, let's say the first album, two first albums.
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So it's quite close to my heart and refused to,
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ganz close. Also, wie nicht? Let's say bands like Muse, some stuff are great as well. So.
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Biffy Lyro. Yeah, Biffy Lyro. So I guess that sort of,
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indie based hardcore rock sound from like, let's say from Sweden or the States
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or Britain from like late 90s.
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That's my cup of tea. The most influenced.
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Yeah, that's my cup of tea and I can't get rid of that.
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Ja, ja, ja. In a way, I think that,
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of course, you can take it as a burden, but thinking about Moonshot and our
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music style, I kind of love it that you can't put it in a certain box. You just have to...
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If I imagine, let's say, a record store, and I don't want to be there labeled
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under this and this and this. I want to go everywhere.
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And it's like, that's how it should be. This should be supposed to be art,
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not like we're doing milk cartoons and stuff like that. It's an interesting
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picture, because that's where the difficulty is with genres.
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Because as a music fan, you kind of know what you're into.
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Let's say you're into heavy metal or something So you go to a record store And,
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you flip through metal records And then,
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you find new stuff But when you are not fitting in any of the genres,
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New people finding you With traditional vinyl and stuff It's going to be difficult
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But in the age of internet For bands as you guys Who are all over the place
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musically In a good sense,
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Makes it a little bit easier But marketing wise Those marketing guys and PR
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guys they hate us because they can't put us, you know, stay there,
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stay there, we can sell you better then.
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I always, you know, had this idea that great rock bands kind of,
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the band kind of defines the sound. Exactly, exactly. So I'm not saying that's easy, but.
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That's like the ultimate goal. Yeah, yeah. Sound like moonshot,
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you know, as we always have, but, you know, in a way that people actually know
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what that means. Ja, ja, ja. Ja, ja.
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Wenn du dich über die Band, sagen wir Queen, was ist die Genre der Queen?
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Good point. Oder wenn du dich über die Band Ghost? Du musst du mehr wissen,
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du musst du mehr wissen. Du musst du mehr wissen, du musst du alles wissen.
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Es ist nicht nur, wie, dark Musik mit flavors von Achtes oder so.
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Du musst du mehr wissen. Und ich denke, das ist, wenn die Magic passiert.
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Und ich meine, jetzt bist du ein ziemliches Band. Du hast zwei Rekord in den
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Shelfs und du hast eine andere Rekord in der Autumn.
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Du fühlst dich, dass du absolut entwickelt hast, oder ist es noch in development?
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Ist es noch immer, mit jedem Rekord, mit jedem Song du schreiben,
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gibt es noch neue Nuancen kommen in dieser Musik? Oder du denkst,
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okay, jetzt haben wir es gefunden und wir sind das Rote down.
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I guess it has been ready in a way in our heads and the way we do music.
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But at the same time, I guess in a way we kind of move sideways, you know.
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At least that's how I would like to put it. Somebody else might say that we
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go backwards or upwards or whatever.
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But, you know, it's like we have been doing this for so long.
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So in good and in bad, we are kind of set when it comes to, you know, making songs.
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But of course, you know, when new ideas come in and we work with those.
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Something nice happens and, you know, who knows what's coming up,
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but still, in a way, you know, it's, of course we evolve, but still, you know,
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I guess we have had the same skill set, you know, seven years ago as well,
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you know, but of course things sound different.
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Yeah, yeah. That sounds complicated, but, you know, I don't know,
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I guess you know what I mean.
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Ja, es macht Sinn, das ist, dass du schon sehr glücklich bist,
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dass du bereits established musicians bist.
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Du bist nicht von scratch, wo du ein Rekord auf dem ersten Rekord hast,
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das ist der erste Rekord, die du ever gemacht hast und du bist nicht mehr wissen,
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was du in der Studio bist.
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Du bist in der Gave lange genug zu wissen, was du bist. Ich glaube,
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mit dem ersten Rekord haben wir zu lernen, wie wir arbeiten und lernen,
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die Produktion und Songwriting processen.
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In diesem Sinne, das war eine learning-kurve. But with the second album and
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with this third one, we all kind of know how we're going to do this, which is a great thing.
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Because there's not too much time to put in a certain thing.
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So we have to know what we are doing.
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So the process is kind of, we know what's going on.
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But the actual substance, that's like a dynamic thing that who knows what's happening, you know.
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Ja, especially, you know, when we've been writing this third album,
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we have learned how to do things without losing energy, you know, between the lines.
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And it's like, I really like it that this overall sound,
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is there and it's familiar, but still it's like, for example,
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the second single we're going to put out in a couple of weeks and usually sent
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this final mix about that song.
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And of course I knew the song because I have been singing and writing that, but it's like.
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It had got this kind of,
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Es gibt total neue Farben in es.
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Und es ist so, wie gut, weird, für mich.
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Okay, es ist immer Moonshot, aber die Leute in der Studio, sie haben einen schönen,
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Tag zu finden, und es hat nicht zu viel zu sein, aber es sind so kleine Sachen.
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So es ist wie, Sie können sich selbst auch beherrschen. Okay,
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was ist das? All right, cool, ich liebe das. Actually, ich liebe das.
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So that's the spirit of the, I think it's called Thunderlust,
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right? Thunderlust, yeah. All right.
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So what do you see in general? I mean, those are some differences.
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What are the differences from the previous records on this one to what you've done before?
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I would say that this is way better.
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Well, I do hope so. Agreed, agreed. End of story. This is the best third album
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Musa I've ever done. Ja, ja, ja, ja. Aber, you know...
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To be honest, I think that this is more catchy. You know, the power was catchy,
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but this is even more catchy, you know, somehow. It's more, it's punchier.
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And it's like, it's having like, you know, stories like we have evolved and
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we have, you know, gone further, you know.
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And I think that we have pushed, you know, edges, you know, further away, you know, somehow.
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Ja, und für mich, ich tende zu schauen, diese kleine persönliche Wünsche,
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wenn es zu schreiben, und zu stellen, neue,
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Ideen in sie, und neue Sachen, neue Instrumente und was.
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So in diesem Sinne, ich wünsche, dass jeder Album interessant ist.
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Für mich und für mich, und natürlich für alle anderen Menschen,
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Aber für mich, ich muss es, das ist interessant für mich und das zu machen,
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ich bin froh und bin froh,
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dass ich das Gefühl habe mit dem 3rd Album auch.
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So, die Dinge, die da sind, da sind, da sind es passiert.
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Good things, you know, lots of guitar loops and some nice arpeggios that I haven't
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incorporated before. So, and interesting arrangements. So it's,
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I'm hopeful that people will feel it. And we have had this kind of discussion
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because me as a singer, you know, it's like I'm thinking, most of all,
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I'm thinking about vocals.
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Und wenn die vocals sind, und wenn es gut genug ist, ich bin kind of glücklich,
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und mein Stomach ist voll.
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Aber ich habe immer gesagt, okay, es ist gut, aber es ist nicht gut genug.
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Wir müssen etwas extra haben. Wir müssen uns für uns selbst und den Welt zu
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tun, dass warum diese Moonshot-Song ist nicht genug, wenn es vocals ist.
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There has to be something else as well And I think That's when this kind of
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One plus one is three Happens, when.
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I'm satisfied, but Jussi is still saying Oh no, no, no, we're not there, we're not even close,
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We have to do What is the reason why we're doing this And it's like,
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that kind of thing I think, and I feel that we have managed To push it further
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When it comes to this third album,
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And it's like It makes me really happy that we have still After these years
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and years and years, we have managed to make this kind of thing happen.
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Maybe you could give me one or two examples of new incorporations you put in
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there, where you really push the boundaries of stuff you did before.
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You already said there's new instruments on it. I mean, what can we expect that
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we haven't hired before?
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Well, there's an arpeggiator in the intro of one song.
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I have this strong hunch that that's going to be the first song of the album,
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and it's gonna be fun to have that long incoming kind of dangerous sounding
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arpeggio which is kind of breaking out,
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und dann geht es in die Vacuum, dann die Vokals kommen und dann alle,
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und dann die Intro ist es so exciting.
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Ja, das ist eine Option. Nein, das ist eine Option, das ist eine Option.
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Das ist die Sache. Wir haben es schon schon wieder gehört, weil ich nicht sicher bin.
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Es ist noch ein Demo, aber es wird passieren. Ja, ja, ja.
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Ja, aber das ist ja, weil wir als Songwriting Partners sprechen.
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Wir nicht mehr über das Thema zu sprechen.
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Wir können über die Sachen über die Songs sprechen, aber wenn es um die Songs
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gibt, sie sollten diese Art und Weise haben diese Art und Weise in ihnen,
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dass man nicht mehr überrascht oder nicht mehr überrascht.
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You just have to accept it's there and you try to dance around it and give your respect for the song.
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And the song itself, it'll tell in where it wants to go and what it wants to be done with you.
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And I'm trying to think the same thing when it comes to lyrics as well.
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You know, this third album,
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I've been trying not to...
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Ich mache lyrics, mache lyrics auf die Minderheit.
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Es ist wie, ich bin einfach, okay, wenn es etwas ist, ich habe es geschrieben,
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ich habe es geschrieben, und ich habe es nicht zu denken, über es zu viel.
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Es hat es zu sein. Es hat es zu sein.
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Es hat es zu sein, von der realen Leben. Und dann es matters.
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Ich denke, Art happens, wenn man kind of, find this connection,
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dass was du, was du bring in zu der Song, von der Outer Life,
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or like a real life around you know, that's like, we're like traffic lights
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wow, you know man, I really love your mystical answers to my very simple questions,
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that's amazing I'm losing track as well I can tell that you're writing lyrics.
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So in autumn, like when the record's coming out, you're also going to have like
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a headlining tour with the thing in your luggage, what is the things you look
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out for the most when you're on tour, especially on this upcoming tour?
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I guess it's the moment on stage when you have the pure interaction of energy
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with the people in there.
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And, you know, the playing is on fire and, you know, the audience is on fire
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and, you know, everybody just knows that this is a good thing. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, you just witness that. And you can't find that anywhere else, you know. Yeah, yeah.
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Das ist die Sache, wenn man eigentlich spielt und jeder ist alles in.
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Und du fühlst es. Das ist die Sache.
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Und besonders in dieser A&I-welt, in dem jeder ist, wie man fragt,
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was von einem, ich weiß, was, was man sagt,
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Oder auf die Schreis und Sachen. Ich denke, es ist wirklich,
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wirklich special wenn es ein Gruppe von Leuten die Schreie, und spielen,
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und yelling. Und sie sind aus anderen Ländern.
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Und sie sind es irgendwoher. Und dann jemand ist, du bist ein Ticket.
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Und sie sind in der gleichen Zeit. Und jeder Nacht ist, wie unique.
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Und es ist so ein Beutau für diese Dinge, was passiert um uns.
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No, no, we do it like old school way And we want you to be here in flesh You
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know, it's like Make it real Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Like a timeless thing This
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is how it's supposed to be every night, you know.
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When you're playing in Germany What's the thing you like the most about Germany? Or Berlin in that case?
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I like this light, you know Especially today because, you know It's not like
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deep wintertime in Helsinki still but it's like we don't have this kind of light.
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Yeah, and when it's closer to summer or actually summer, I love these fry bards.
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Oh, yeah. When you have time during the day to do something else.
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And so that's like a routine of me and Henkka.
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We leave the hotel or we leave the nightliner and we go to fry bards,
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you know, just chill and swim,
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and then we go to have lunch and some coffee and take it easy that's like the
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perfect you know the you know the,
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wie Sie es sagen, es ist das OPPOSITE für was in der Nacht passiert. Ja.
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Die ying und yang, you know. Ja, ja. Das ist die perfecte Balance.
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Ich möchte in einem Club oder in einem Bus.
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Ich weiß nicht warum, aber das ist was passiert. Und dann die Leute kommen aus
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dem Freiburg und sie sind einfach smiling.
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Sunbrennt. Ja, ja, ja. Was habe ich getan? Ich habe Snickers.
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Oh, sie hat wohl nur ein Terrible German Pommes Fritzes. Okay, ja, ja, ja.
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Freibad, that's an interesting vocabulary you got. I think I've never heard
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the word Freibad von somebody who's not from Germany.
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It's a very specific thing in Germany. Do you guys know any other interesting
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vocabulary in German that you use on tour?
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Teppich. Kartoffel.
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Did you have German in school? I have studied that a bit, yeah.
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I must say I have forgotten most of it.
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I can, on a good day, on a certain high, I'm able to chat with the taxi driver,
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you know, when it's late enough or early enough, you know, whatever, so it's doable.
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Yeah, there's this magic amount of drinks where you're, like,
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able to speak languages. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But it's having, like, this saturation, you know, point. Exactly.
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Sweet spot, sweet spot of tour, you're talking languages, you begin to know.
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Ja, dann geht es like, downwind, big time. Aber du kannst nicht even speak deinem.
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Spruch mehr. Ja, ja, ja. Du bist nur zwei Tage.
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Aber das ist called Finnish. Wenn du sagen nichts.
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Okay, guys, so you brought a guitar with you und du brought your beautiful voice with you.
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So maybe you could play us a little acoustic song. Let's do it. Let's do it.
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All right, this is the song called Black and Spiral.
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Und es ist eine der wichtigsten Körnungen, wenn es um unsere zweiten Album geht, called The Power.
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Jawohl! Awesome! Oh, wow! Okay! Great!
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Thank you so much, guys! Thank you! Thank you so much! It was great!
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You already did the high voices very well as well! Yeah, we trained when we
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drove here by the van! We played it twice in the van, you know!
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Before you can't hear it anymore! Before that, 10 months ago!
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I was kind of worried, but yeah! Yussi didn't even tune the guitar,
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just take it from the guitar!
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That's true professionalism! Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja Ich weiß es,
29:56
ich weiß es, ich weiß es Okay, es geht es Es geht es, es geht es,
29:59
es geht es, wir gehen Okay, guys Hey, thank you so much Thank you.