Interviews

1. Reading around the Internet your interviews I've noticed that you like to talk about Aarni using the "we" term instead of "me". Hope you don't mind if I'd talk only with Master Warjomaa...OK, just joking! Hope you don't mind!

MW: Not at all, let's just pretend you are talking with Master Warjomaa now...

2. I don't want to be the next "music journalist" who tries to label your music, but you have to admit is a hell of a job to describe somehow your music. Sure, everybody can just check you official site and find some answers to the f.a.q., but can you be so kind and give to our readers a path to follow before clicking on www.aarni.info?

MW: Yea, I freely admit that. But after all this is music we're talking about, why just read about it when you should be listening? To your readers: Aarni plays a sometimes annoying mixture of folk, progressive, ambient and occultist "metal" for a mature audience. I promise you won't be subjected to any love songs, at least. I consider that a definite plus nowadays. Also no lyrics about vampires, crying, teenage angst, being "metal" or empty threats.
If you have an obsessive need to label things, feel free to label Aarni under 'extreme metallish music' or just 'obscure'. Don't forget to add an adjective such as 'shit' and/or 'ingenious'.

3. You work for the Firebox label and you know that each new promotional copy of a CD and the whole promo kit contains a bio and the file under. Let's presume that for the next Aarni album will be your duty to write few words about it; what will you write about yourself?

MW: In fact I don't work for Firebox anymore, but when I did I indeed wrote the 'Bathos' promosheet :) But I consider that a good policy of record companies: artists should have a say in how the label markets their music before things get too embarrasing. With the next Aarni album I'd again like to write some of the nonsense myself, you'll see it when and if the album gets released...I feel unpleasant describing my or other people's music, especially if the text is intended to be used for some sort of marketing purposes. Still, what I write won't be very important because most people who like Aarni cannot read for one reason or another. The rest of Aarni fans are deaf.

4. Due to the wide range of variety and influences included on your tracks, for some listeners may be a little bit difficult to perform a full spinning of your Cd's. Taking for example the songs included on "Bathos" album, you cannot find two tracks written in the same style, but hell! "Bathos" remains a great album!

MW: It's always nice if you feel good! I have no problem if someone has trouble playing the whole album through. Why should you even play it through in one go? I didn't plan the record to be a whole entity; I always make individual songs and only pile them up...maybe people should just listen to those songs they like (if any). It seems likely that in the future people get most of their music from the net as individual favourite tracks, not entire albums. So why should musicians continue to make old-fashioned "stylistically whole" albums? I have always been bored with albums wherein the artist has clearly tried to maintain a uniform sound throughout for no good reason. I would like people to adapt themselves to change instead of neurotically embracing the old and tired conservative ways. Mutate or die! And fuck nostalgia.

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