TUOMAS ROUNAKARI Announces New Release Date for "Bear Awakener"
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Violinist, composer, ethnomusicologist TUOMAS ROUNAKARI has a huge pleasure to announce that his new album "Bear Awakener" finally comes out on April 13th, 2022. Furthermore, Tuomas has revealed the first single ’Third Morning’, tracklisting and album coverart!
Tuomas stated: “The Bear Awakener album has a new release date April 14th, 2022. The Indiegogo pre-orders will be shipped already before this. Sending most of them out during the last week of March.
You can now listen to a track entitled ’Third Morning’ on my freshly opened Bandcamp page.
I hope you are all well and taking time to celebrate Spring Equinox in whatever way. Embracing and welcoming the light! Feels good that the album is coming out now after the equinox!“
Tuomas adds: “Despite all the troubling and alarming news in the world, we are now moving towards summer, welcoming migratory birds (swans have just returned our local skies) and facing renewal one more time in this eternal cycle of life and death.
Awakening the Bear is a symbol of succumbing to the greater forces of existence. Awakening a new energy while being more connected to the ancient. And first and foremost - opening to a dialogue with mythical entities and re-creating harmonious and long lasting relationships with our surroundings, including human and non-human beings, seen and unseen worlds.
The songs in this album are formed by Khanty, Mansi, Carelian and Finnish ancestors. They carry a resonance of those before us who were better equipped to collaborate with nature in a sustainable and self-sufficient way. Such songs have always been my best teachers.
This album became more gentle and playful than I imagined but that’s how bears are! I hope that the songs will transcend your lives in magical ways! Just as studying them has transcended mine.
With my best wishes! Embracing the light!
Tuomas"
In addition, Tuomas has revealed the tracklisting and album coverart, which was created by Karolina Pärnänen.
"Bear Awakener" tracklisting:
1. First Morning
2. In the Land of the Bear
3. Man with a Bear's Snout
4. Second Morning
5. Song of a Small Goose
6. Origin of the Bear
7. Third Morning
8. Bear Clan Girl
9. Man-observing-the-world
10. Roopeska's Bear Hunt
11. Last Morning - Departure
Enjoy some feelings from Tuomas' studio days with Verde in January 2022 here.
“This is music that gods are listening to” said Pekko Käppi after having listened through the freshly finished mastered tracks.
"Bear Awakener" was recorded, mixed and mastered at the Verde Studio with the gear-wizard Mika Rintala. None of his modular synthesizers were used. All of the equipment used in recording was built by Mika - microphones, pre-amps, EQ and even the mixing console and electrostatic monitors.
TUOMAS ROUNAKARI is an internationally acclaimed violinist, composer and ethnomusicologist from Finland. He is a one-man-band blending violin, vocals and stomping with ankle-bells. In his performance he enters various trance-states. In this album he will also be playing a traditional Khanty instrument called Ning-juh.
Tuomas is inspired by different forms of dialogue; man and nature, the seen and the unseen world, ancient and future. His first solo album Shamanviolin was a result of ethnomusicological studies of the earliest 20th century wax-cylinder recordings from Siberia. These studies have also led to many collaborations with indigenous artists. He is one of the few artists who have actually returned their art to native communities for evaluation and development.
