A Girl Named Wolf

A page for the experimental chamber pop artist, Vuk
Here’s an animated gif of me (by Tomi Palsa for Nrgm.fi) playing the autoharp at the Lost in Music festival on October 21st. It was part of a music industry convention called Music and Media, held every year in Tampere. If you understand Finnish, you can read the full review of the festival, from which this animation was plucked, on Nuorgam here. They say some really nice things about lots of fancy foreigners saying they thought our show was great. (Well, shucks, guys… Thanks!) I might add that the Finnish media likes to speculate on whether or not this or that Finnish artist is going to “make it” internationally, and they do that here, too. I wish they wouldn’t, as when it comes down to it, it’s only in our own hands as far as we strive to make good music and get it to an audience. We can only do our best, and aside from all the hard work, the final word on who “makes it” or not (whatever that even means) is usually up to chance. Speaking of which, as the review mentions, Martin Mills, the founder of the Beggars Group, was at our show, which I was very excited about, since he runs most of my favorite record labels of all time (though he insists he doesn’t sign anybody himself). At the convention, he came across as a kind man, a wise man, very down-to-earth, and not a smidgen patronizing. I overheard some industry tough-guys at Music and Media talking about artists over breakfast as if they were show dogs. Not Mr. Mills. He was something else. Hats off!

Here’s an animated gif of me (by Tomi Palsa for Nrgm.fi) playing the autoharp at the Lost in Music festival on October 21st. It was part of a music industry convention called Music and Media, held every year in Tampere.

If you understand Finnish, you can read the full review of the festival, from which this animation was plucked, on Nuorgam here. They say some really nice things about lots of fancy foreigners saying they thought our show was great. (Well, shucks, guys… Thanks!) I might add that the Finnish media likes to speculate on whether or not this or that Finnish artist is going to “make it” internationally, and they do that here, too. I wish they wouldn’t, as when it comes down to it, it’s only in our own hands as far as we strive to make good music and get it to an audience. We can only do our best, and aside from all the hard work, the final word on who “makes it” or not (whatever that even means) is usually up to chance.

Speaking of which, as the review mentions, Martin Mills, the founder of the Beggars Group, was at our show, which I was very excited about, since he runs most of my favorite record labels of all time (though he insists he doesn’t sign anybody himself). At the convention, he came across as a kind man, a wise man, very down-to-earth, and not a smidgen patronizing. I overheard some industry tough-guys at Music and Media talking about artists over breakfast as if they were show dogs. Not Mr. Mills. He was something else. Hats off!

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