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Music Interview : Nyric from "Avoliitto"   When and how was your band created? Avoliitto was created on the spring of the year 2001. Our first song 'Onnellinen ihminen' (Happy human) was realesed throughout our website avoliitto.net on 1st of June 2001. You can say that Avoliitto´s creater is Dj Huiske. He invited me, MC Vaisu and some other musicans to create this 'musical collective', which idea was to bee free from forms and copyrights and costs. Me and most of the other guys have played together ealier in the same band, so it was quite  natural that Dj Huiske asked us to play music with him. Were is the name of the band coming from? Avoliitto is a finnish word and it means 'living together but not married'. Our name describes the basic idea of the band: all the songs are about me and my boyfriend MC Vaisu. The lyrics tell everything about our happy (and sometimes not so happy..!) life together,how we are moving together,how we went to Playa de Las Americas, how I cheated and so on.  If you translate Avoliitto straight to english the meaning is 'open union'. This describes our form, there are no srtict form for our band - players come and go, we have visitors in our recording. What musicians or artists did have a major influence in your life / work? I cannot name any artist which have made a major influnece in my work in Avoliitto. Sometimes I might take some influences from artists which Dj Huiske asks me to listen before the recordings. For example when we were recording 'Petos' (Cheatment) Dj Huiske played some Destiny´s Child to me and told me that I should sound like them. I asked which of them and he told me smiling 'every of them'. You can go an listen to that song and tell me how I managed! What are the positive and negative aspects of being a musician / singer (in Finland)? Finland is so damn small. That means less listeners, but also less competition.   How could you qualify your style of music? Dj Huiske likes to call our music HIP POP - it is something between hiphop and pop. Avoliitto´s music is not so serious, there are lot of humour, sarcasm and messages in the lyrics. For example in the song 'Ghettoperse' (The Ghetto Ass) Mc Vaisu is rapping about Nyric´s ass and how he really likes it. Nyric is answering to him that the purpose of ass should be producing pee and shit so could you please stop admiring my ass! Have you ever considered the possibilty to change totally your style of music? If so, what style of music would you choose? It would be nice to do some acoustic popular music for a little bit older target group. Something like our only acoustic song Se oikea. Maby we have to start a side project...  What are stories/topics you tell/treat in your songs? All of our song are about me and my boyfriend Vaisu or they somehow relates to us. Songs are about good and bad thing in a relationship and I think everybody can recognize something familiar from the lyrics... What is your favorite song in your repertoire and why? It is very hard to pick only one song, mayby it is Tupaantulijaiset or Petos. Do you tour regularly? Do you actually prefer performing your music live or in a studio? We had this 'dogma rules' and one important point was that Avoliitto doesn´t do gigs. We don´t actually even rehearse - we are only recording. Now we are reconsidering the rules and at the moment we don´t have any rules. It might be possible that we are doing some gigs in the summer. Actually we were asked to play in a very big finnish festivals and it might be that we cannot say no to them. The opportunity is too big... You can check the situation from our website www.avoliitto.net During the process of making an album, what is the moment that you prefer? Maybe the moment when you have managed to get something very difficult in, the feeling is then 'yes yes yes!', I managed to do that thoug it seemed to be impossible. I love recording! Internet is something interesting for musicians because it gives them the opportunity to touch a larger audience but it is also a threat for them (regarding the copyrights). What is your opinion regarding this medium? One of the Avoliitto´s main idea is to free music. It is good for us that we can promote your music freely in the Internet. Of course this doesn´t mean that We don´t care about the copyrights, we are serious about the problems with Internet and copyrights. But at the moment we are taking advantage of the Internet. Everything we do is free from costs, the songs are realesed only in the Internet. You can download our music freely, our purpose is notto sell anything. Actually at the moment we are considering our concept and thinking about different opportunities, making a real record or something. Everything is quite open and I think we will be much more wiser after this spring. Do you use computers or home studios during the process of making an album or a song? All of our songs are made with the help of computer in a home studio at Dj Huiske´s home. Dj Huiske records and produces the songs. What are your actual and future projects? At the moment we having a little break. Like I told you little bit ealier our plans is to reconsider our concept and start to create new music during this spring. New recordings will hopefully be realesed on this summer as well as we might to do some gigs... At our website you can sign to our mailing list and be informed. Interview by Vincent Lefrançois / 2003

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