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kadonnutmanner

Finnish Primitive Guitar. Fingerpicked explorations on a steel stringed acoustic guitar.


I'm on Lithuanian radio, as a guest on today's epi
I'm on Lithuanian radio, as a guest on today's episode of "Country muzikos renesansas" hosted by Algis Fedjevas on @startfm94.2 ! I'll be plugging our split compilation and sharing some trivia on history of open tunings and country blues. You can listen to it from the stream today at 16, the downloadable version will be available tomorrow.

Also tonight we're doing a show at @bolderaja , Riga, Latvia with @sinebursragde and @ktikas_ , see you there at 20!

(You may wonder how I can be on radio in Vilnius at 16 and playing in Riga at 20, but that is a trade secret of hard working travelling musicians...)

Since we'll be be doing two more release shows wit
Since we'll be be doing two more release shows with @sinebursragde and @ktikas_ for the "Rubenis/ Tikas / Manner / Arn"-compilation this week to celebrate having the CDs with us, I decided to upload a live video also of the second (or really the first according to the track list, but I uploaded the second first a while ago) piece of my music on it. 

It's called Onnenkantamoinen (a finnish idiom that is a bit hard to translate to Englih, it would be something like a successful longshot maybe).

This video is from a certain kitchen in Kiedrich that has seen a lot of visiting guitarists lately, my greatest gratitude towards @phantomlimbogigs for making these visits possible. The picture has been cropped to protect the innocent, so only @freek.vreys was left (as he can't hardly be called innocent). (The normal 16:9 horizontal video can be found at my YouTube Channel.)

See you tonight at @yda_bar , Vilnius, LT, starting at around 19!

Last week of the tour starts now, with a day off i
Last week of the tour starts now, with a day off in Bialystok. I hope I run into Max, I heard he's a pretty good producer and handles finances especially well, he could maybe plan a crowdfunding campaign for my next album.

The rest of the week looks like this, looking forward to all of these very much, and it's great that we get to do release shows for the CD version of the Rubenis / Tikas / Manner / Arn -comp in Latvia and Estonia too.

Tue 13.5.  @yda_bar , Vilnius, LT
Thu 15.5. @bolderaja , Riga, LV (+ @sinebursragde & @ktikas_ )
Fri 16.5. @mohriait , Pärnu, EE (+ @sinebursragde & @ktikas_ )
Sat 17.5. @pethaus_ry , Tampere, FI (+ @ville_lare)

The photo is from my show last Monday at @club_under_city_official , Plovdiv, Bulgaria, shot by @metallensxx . Huge thanks for making that happen.

See you at the shows!

@piesniarze_klub_poezja_i_muzyk last night, what a
@piesniarze_klub_poezja_i_muzyk last night, what a magical tiny venue, I felt really welcome playing there, and despite the throwback to the past look, the shows were also streamed on multiple platforms, so it's probably still up for viewing on their IG and FB, and coming up on Youtube today. Huge thanks to all involved!

Tonight I'll be doing a couple of sets at @chicago_bar_krakow
from 19 to 22, free entrance, see you there!

A lot of travelling guitar pickers wandering aroun
A lot of travelling guitar pickers wandering around Europe right now! I finally got to hear Liam's weissenborn playing live and grabbed the new LP's from both of them. Good luck guys and safe travels, it was so great to run into you again! I think they have 8 more shows together and Liam will be roaming in Europe until June or something.

I noticed it's a lot easier to focus on listening to other people's music when I'm not playing that night yourself, but also that when I don't have the anticipation and excitement of playing giving me a rush, I notice more easily how tired I really am from all the travelling. 

So I feel that playing every day is actually less tiresome than having a day off here and there, then you have a plan, focus and meaning in the day, instead of being a tired backpacker who doesn't have enough energy to go our and see the sights or whatever a tourist is expected to do. 

So, 8 nights and 6 shows until the end of the tour, playing tonight at @piesniarze_klub_poezja_i_muzyk in Wroclaw, Poland. I'm starting at 20, see you there!

A serious guitar face from a seriously great show
A serious guitar face from a seriously great show last night at Jolly Pub, Budapest. Great thanks to Rómeó and Tibor for the show and hospitality, KRAH, Ratweiler and Lotti Bigotti for the music, David for the photo and everyone who attended for being there!

Today it's a day off that I will spend in Prague, but of course I need my daily dose of weird and wonderful guitar music, so later I'll be heading to @punctum_krasovka for Sonic Liberations presenting  @guitar_wrestler , @liamgrant.a.p.g and BBCHCH (cz).

My next show will be tomorrow at @piesniarze_klub_poezja_i_muzyk in Wroclaw, Poland. See you there!

Dipping my feet in the Black Sea for the first tim
Dipping my feet in the Black Sea for the first time yesterday. That was one of the side quests of thjs tour and it's now done, to take a look at the Black Sea and think about Ukraine, Crimea, Russia and all else that is going on on the other side of the sea.

 It was also St. George's Day yesterday according to Gregorian calendar, and the bulgarians celebrate it also as as the Day of the Bulgarian Army. Didn't feel like celebrating that (or any other army), but the outdoor celebrations of St. George  near @clubsmilevarna were pretty cool. Unfortunately the weather turned pretty nasty with heavy rain and thunder, I ended up playing to just a couple of Wild Children MC members who run the place, but I had fun anyway. 

I'm now taking one of the slowest international trains ever, travelling from Ruse, Bulgaria to Bucharest, Romania for 3 hours and 17 minutes. I'll be playing at @lente.bucharest Arcanui tonight at around 19.30, hoping to meet up with @bbbastosss guys there, whom with we shared moments of mutual musical appreciation watching each other play in Thessaloniki last Saturday. 

After that I'm taking the night train to Arad and day train tomorrow to Budapest to play at Jolly Music Pub, with punk and hardcore bands KRAH (SRB), Ratweiler and Lotti Bigotti on thw bill too. So plenty of sitting on the train to experience now, hopefully the next time I'll have time to do more than one show in Romania and Hungary each. Anyway, see you at the shows!

Last week was awesome, first shows for me in Alban
Last week was awesome, first shows for me in Albania, Greece and Bulgaria, huge thanks to @voodoo_rocktirana , @5060gram , @kanal103 , @la_kanja , @fabrika.yfanet and @gaba.bar + everyone who attended! 

This week I'll continue my travels slowly back home via following route:

Mon 5.5. @under_city_bar, Plovdiv, BG
Tue 6.5. @clubsmilevarna, Varma, BG
Wed 7.5. @lente.bucharest, Bucharest, RO
Thu 8.5. Jolly Music Pub, Budapest, HU (+ KRAH (SRB), Ratweiler, Lotti Bigotti )
Sat 10.5. @piesniarze_klub_poezja_i_muzyk ,Wrocław, PL
Sun 11.5. @chicago_bar_krakow, Krakow, PL

I made it safe and sound to Greece, and I'm now ha
I made it safe and sound to Greece, and I'm now having an appropriate day off to celebrate the International Workers' Day in Thessaloniki. 

Tomorrow I'll be playing a solo show in Volos and on Saturday at @fabrika.yfanet together with @bbbastosss and Non Kanon. 

On Sunday I'll be hopefully taking the last bus of the trip to play at @gaba.bar in Sofia, Bulgaria, and continuing the tour on rails after that. See you here and there!

Something is just about to happen at @la_kanja
Something is just about to happen at @la_kanja

Last night's show at @termokiss was canceled by th
Last night's show at @termokiss was canceled by the venue at an extremely short notice (I was on a bus 30 minutes away from Pristina.) They did cover my travel related expenses, so I got to have an evening off on Pristina and a comfy hostel room. I still felt pretty shitty about the cancellation, and decided to cheer myself up with pizza. 

I went to the first pizzeria I found and needed to choose between a 30 cm and 40 cm diameter pizza. The 30 cm / 6 euro one sounded a tiny bit smaller than the standard one in Finland, so I went for the 40 cm / 10,50 €.

After finishing that one (it was the first warm meal of the day) I walked back to the hostel that was near the bus station for 30 minutes, and during the walk tried to recall elementary school geometry to figure out how much longer should the diameter of a larger pizza be to have twice the area of a smaller one.

First I figured that since the area is pi r squared, I can compare the areas simply by forgetting the pi and squaring the diameters to get the relative areas. 30 * 30 = 900, 40 * 40 = 1600, so the bigger one was only about 78% larger. The price did grow only 75% going from 6 to 10,5, so I did get a bit of a discount there.

So, to figure out how much the diameter needs to grow, I thought about a smaller pizza that has a radius of 1, and a larger pizza that has area of 2. We can ditch the pi from the calculation and just think of relative areas here, and also can think of diameters instead of radiuses as that makes no difference in this. Pizza with a radius of 1 has the relative area of 1 squared which is also 1, and the larger pizza has area of 2, so it's radius is the square root of 2. 

Here I needed to get the phone's calculator out as I'm not enough of a math nerd to remember or be able to work out square root of 2 in my head quickly, and turns out it's about 1,414 and then some. 

So, to get a pizza that is twice as big by area the diameter needs to grow by 41,4%, and I shall now remember this forever.

Anyway, the bus is just now arriving in Tirana, and tonight's show at @voodoo_rocktirana is not cancelled to my knowledge, so I hope to see you all there later!

Impressing the audience last night at @dkcsarajevo
Impressing the audience last night at @dkcsarajevo with my incredible multitasking skills. Thanks for the hospitality and to everyone who came despite the rain! Tonight playing at Beti Ford, Belgrade, Serbia, tomorrow @termokiss , Prishtina, Kosovo, see you there!


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Fingerpicked solo steel string acoustic guitar music from Finland

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