Hype Corner – K Koster

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Welcome to the seventh

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Hype Corner interview

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Today we've got guitar-driven

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pop-rock music

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playing, composing and singing

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with K. Koster as our guest

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Welcome

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Thanks

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Let's start with the basics

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starting with your name.

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Names have always fascinated me, because

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they sort of reflect

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some kind of spirit gets distilled into them

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and if it doesn't, then

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over time they seem to write

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themselves into existence, in a way

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So where does your name come from

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where did it come from

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and where is it heading?

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I don't really know where it's heading

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but it's basically this kind of thing

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my real name is quite long and awkward

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so we shortened it a bit

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and cut a few corners

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And made it a little

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shorter and easier

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Who was involved in that process?

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Me.

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You yourself.

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Yes, yes.

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Concise is always good.

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There's also...

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It sounds a bit German.

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Does it refer to any German

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beer sausage or something?

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No, that's actually the first

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time I've heard

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that it would refer to a German beer sausage.

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It doesn't.

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At least it never crossed my mind.

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It's basically

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a clunky spin-off of my name.

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Okay.

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A bit of background.

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What's your background

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in music overall?

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Has playing guitar and

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opening your mouth

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to put it jokingly

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always been part of your life?

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Or how did you

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end up doing exactly this

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in this form?

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Yeah, it's been there on the side

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for many years, but this is

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the first project

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we really set out to do seriously.

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It's been three years since we got

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the first proper song in the can

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and I thought this might actually become something.

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Which song was that?

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It's a song called "Elämä kantaa".

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When that was done properly, in a way

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besides a few demos

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Have you taken guitar lessons somewhere

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or elsewhere, or are you self-taught?

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Yeah, I have, at times

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back when I was a kid.

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Actually, there's a funny anecdote here.

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I once

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went when I was in middle school and

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then about 4-5 years ago I

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thought that this music thing

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could be done properly.

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Then I was browsing online and

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the same guy happened to be running a guitar school

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in downtown Turku, the same one he ran

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back when I was 15.

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At 14-15, in guitar lessons

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at that same school.

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The school has moved and changed names

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but the guy was the same.

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Then I thought, nah, just play.

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Then I came to the conclusion

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that you can't make a guitarist out of me

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there's no wizard like that

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who could turn me into a guitarist.

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So then I decided to go to singing lessons

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and then it kind of came up

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indirectly, that I

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write these songs myself

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and then we started making them.

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Song: In the early morning hours I wake up

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to a gentle sigh, you're

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still awake

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Softly I whisper, I wonder how...

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Yeah, I've listened to your songs and

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they paint quite this kind of

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romantic picture of these

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small everyday things.

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Where did you get the idea

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to write about exactly this

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kind of topic, and is it that

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in the end

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even the little things are huge?

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Could be, yeah.

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Or actually, it's that small things

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become big, and

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you only really realize it afterwards

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that they've become big.

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In the moment, you don't realize it.

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So I don't know if I really have any

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bigger guiding line behind it

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in the background, that these

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have just come out of a few of them.

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I don't want to paint too

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poetic a picture of how these get made.

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Music-wise, what kind of

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music do you like to listen to?

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Are you a fan of any bands? And do you have

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any idols who've influenced

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this K. Koster sound?

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Honestly, let's put it like this:

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when these songs have been made

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and produced a bit more

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than just

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strummed with an acoustic guitar.

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I don't know, maybe it's more

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certain specific songs that have influenced it

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that I've heard at the right moment.

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They might be from the radio, or

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from some random Spotify playlist

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but I mean, the way I see it is that

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of course, I'm an '80s kid

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and back then, the big names were really big.

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There was Bon Jovi and

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after that came '80s metal

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but I wouldn't really connect that to this.

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Yeah.

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And I've always kind of liked

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singer-songwriters.

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Right.

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Those old guys from the big wide world

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Neil Youngs and Bruce Springsteens.

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That's what yours has been like so far, at least.

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I don't know if it'll grow into something bigger later on

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but up to now it's

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been that kind of vibe, to me.

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And of course there are the Finnish ones, because

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Finnish is the language I write in.

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Song: You touch so softly,

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that I hardly feel it.

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Still, this night is eternal, sometimes your

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gaze, like a bullet, pierces the heart.

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So, you've put out online

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a few songs, with music videos and

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that sort of thing, so...

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But your whole repertoire

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is probably bigger?

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Do you have desk drawers at home

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full of A4 pages and notebook sheets?

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How do you generally save

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your ideas?

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Well, um...

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Just basic stuff...

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I've got lots of Word docs

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with, like, three sentences in them.

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Of course, most of them never become

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anything at all; they just sit there

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until they disappear.

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I usually record them when they're

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at that stage, I strum the guitar and sing.

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On your phone or what?

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On my computer I have a USB audio interface

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through that.

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Then I take them to my partner in crime

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Marco, who then

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probably redoes the chords

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and everything else

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but anyway, you know

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That's how it goes.

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Do you have more finished songs than

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the ones you've released?

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I probably do, at the moment...

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Of course, it's finished when it's finished.

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Even if you have a melody and chords,

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to me the song still isn't finished yet.

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But as written songs

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probably somewhere between 20 and 30.

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And if you go do a gig,

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you probably play those songs there?

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Yeah.

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And now we kind of, now

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we're sort of putting together an EP.

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Yeah.

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So there are...

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well, there are a few

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that have been released, and then

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three that haven't been released.

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Song: Little shards of happiness that

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are picked up from life's paths

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These small moments

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help, one by one...

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So you started out with the "man and a guitar"

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or "man and a couple of guitars" approach,

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depending how you want to put it, for this thing, and...

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Now on your latest single

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there were drums already, and other

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instruments too, bass and so on...

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Will we see K. Koster at some point

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with a full band?

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Yeah, that's the

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next step in the plan.

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Probably sometime... next winter-ish.

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Actually, the ones that

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are on YouTube...

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there are only a few,

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where it's just guitar and vocals.

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I definitely see this as

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band music, though.

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On the other hand

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you can do some kind of unplugged

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show there with a couple of guitars

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and the same songs probably work there too.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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Yeah, because they're still

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pretty basic

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pop stuff, so you can...

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The idea, of course, was to start

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with the two men, two guitars setup

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But then this plague messed up that plan.

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Right.

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About the genre...

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what genre would you put

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your songs in?

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Are they pop, rock, schlager,

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folk, or what are they, really?

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Or some combination of those.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It kind of feels like one song is

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different from the next, but of course the fact that

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they're recorded and produced

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with a total rock guy, it

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tends to lean more rock.

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Someone asked me once and I said

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it's like Juha Tapio's songs,

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but the energy is like Popeda.

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Okay.

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I don't know whether that mess will

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turn into anything at all.

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That kind of shines a light on it.

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Yeah.

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Of course I'm supposed to say that

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it doesn't fit anywhere,

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that it's completely its own thing.

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Which do you prefer?

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If this is a question

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that's worth asking.

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What are the pros and cons

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of two guitars and vocals

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compared to a full band

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what's good and what's bad about each?

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Of course, it's kind of a pretty different thing.

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Two men and two guitars is

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of course a bit of a smaller

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setup, it's logistically easier.

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Fewer mouths to feed.

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Yeah, fewer mouths to feed.

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and then of course...

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but then a proper

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band has its upsides too.

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Because I see this as

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easy to adapt

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to, say, festival conditions

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but that really

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requires the band.

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We already touched on it a bit, that

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what's in your near future,

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if this modern-day leprosy, or among friends

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COVID, eases up, then

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you already mentioned an EP...

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Is that the main goal in the near future?

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It's in a pretty good place now.

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There isn't, in the end,

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that much recording missing, really.

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Production always takes its own time.

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So during this winter, the thing is that

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there should be something more tangible,

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something you can sell on to someone.

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And then the band, kind of...

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putting something like that together, so that

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we'd kind of...

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The aim is kind of

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next summer, a year from now.

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So it would sort of be ready then.

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So that's this next, maybe, year...

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We all hope that at that point

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you can already get out and play gigs, and

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and people can finally get out of their...

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Yeah, that's the...

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home offices.

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That's of course a whole different thing.

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England just removed

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the restrictions.

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Yeah, it's nice to see.

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On the other hand, for the rest of us, in my

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opinion it's a benefit... we get to see how it goes.

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Yeah, a little experiment over there.

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Yeah, a lab rat experiment.

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You're also on the roster of this Turku-based

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Voodoo Entertainment,

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so you can be booked for all kinds of

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events and cat christenings

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to taste, so

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could you give a little sales pitch

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for why exactly you

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should be booked for that party?

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Yeah, sure, but you should

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book me for that party

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because right now

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the music is good, and now is the moment

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when you can still get me cheap...

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In a couple of years you'll pay!

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Alright, now we've nicely

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reached the end stage of the interview

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and here

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– despite the audience's requests –

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we again have this

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legendary bonus question.

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And here it comes.

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Let's imagine that we are now

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in East Germany, before the Wall fell,

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in good old DDR,

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and you had to do

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a charity gig, and you had to

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choose a hat, would it be

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A. A fur hat

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B. An army cap, or

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C. A nightcap like the Sandman wears, or

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D. Something else

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Well, you've got a cap on right now.

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Right now I've got a cap on.

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A fur hat is too obvious.

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And actually, that army cap...

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so maybe that's where the Sandman thing comes from.

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And if I could also get that coat,

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the one David Hasselhoff had

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on top of the Berlin Wall when he sang

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when the Wall came down...

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All those little lights on it...

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Just some little ideas

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for the next music video!

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Yes!

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Alright, the interview is over

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and thanks for the interview, K. Koster.

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You're welcome, and thank you.

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To close

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we'll show the one we played here

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a unique studio live version of the song...

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"The Walls of This House"

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And now, K. Koster and "The Walls of This House".