What happens when you combine barracks sounds with the Middle Ages? That's what Tuomas Palonen, or Thomas Ignatius, found out about, whose strange music is gathering attention around the world.
Finn musician Tuomas Palonen44, has gained international attention with his special album.
The album released under the alter ego Thomas Ignatius contains medieval music interpreted with a Casio synthesizer from the 1980s.
The album, released in September, attracted the attention of the British music magazine The Wire. The magazine interviewed Palos about the original album in December. The record has also been played on foreign radio channels in the USA, Great Britain, Estonia and the Netherlands.
Ignatius' monk ambient was also heard on MTV3's reheated Levyraad on Saturday.
Paragraph De longe De prope shared opinions in the studio. The song got an influencer in the music industry Asko Kallonen and actor Anna Airola to frolic.
“Yes, there is music in the world,” Kallonen said and compared the song to “Cantores Minores's Little Christmas”.
“It was very funny to see Asko Kallonen jogging to the beat of that muse. That sight was etched on the retinas,” Palonen commented by phone.
I will burn the previous solo album, an experimental folk record bearing the artist's name released in 2018, was a Teosto candidate. He has released both albums through his own record label Palats.
Palonen says that he is interested in exploring the sound world of different eras and decades.
Found the medieval theme by accident:
“I was jamming on my 80's Casio one day and suddenly I played a similar melody that sounded medieval. I was left wondering about that combination for a long time. It seemed so delicious that I started researching it more,” Palonen says.
Medieval music is fascinating to Palose because it contains a very strong “time machine effect”.
“You hear that so rarely. In the same way that a rare taste or smell brings to mind strong associations or memories, medieval music also has the feeling that it takes you on a journey through time.”
I'm burning says he did a lot of background work. He listened to medieval music and gave himself a “preparation course” in medieval music before the actual composing work. He arranged medieval songs for the synthesizer and thereby began to internalize the harmony and melodic concepts of the period's music.
He even wrote and sang the songs in Latin.
“I used to study Latin in high school. Those studies were finally useful,” Palonen says and laughs.
The lyrics are not directly religious, but according to Palonen, they contain the vocabulary and imagery of religious mysticism. “The songs are some kind of existential meditations on life and myself.”
Alter ego Thomas Ignatius is a fictitious character living in the 1980s who is fascinated by the Middle Ages, Palonen explains. That's why he also used the Commodore 64 game console to save medieval-themed fantasy games from the 1980s “to get into the right kind of atmosphere”.
The album also contains two cover songs. One is based on medieval Carmina Burana manuscripts and the other on a song by an anonymous composer from the 13th century.
Thomas Ignatius is probably the creation of only one album. Palonen says that he creates his own sound world for each album. On this record, he drew from the 1980s synth pop vibe. Palonen also precisely defined the soundscape of his previous album: it is an album that Love Records could have released in 1975.
However, Thomas Ignatius plans to go to concerts this winter. Medieval synthpop can be heard live in January at least in Tampere and Turku, and at the beginning of March in Helsinki at the Maunula Elektronik event.
Before his solo albums, Palonen has released five albums with the bands Cosmobile, Kuparilinna and Kaveri Special.
Thomas Ignatius was the first to report on the international attention Rumba.
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