Happy new year!
Greetings from snowy Lapland!
Another crazy year is almost over, so It's about time to wrap things up:
2021 was full of awesome moments & opportunities but also stressful uncertainty and disappointing cancellations. I will personally remember this year as a turning point in my life, a new beginning of sorts. The year I founded MUSA KASA, my record label & composition portfolio, and really started to push my music projects out to the world!
During MUSA KASA's first six months of existence I've managed to:
- create this website and social media channels for MUSA KASA
- Arrange & execute "Fusion Tour 2021" = a short, 4 concert tour in Denmark with two of my bands "Joni Raikaslehto InFusion" & Quicksilver Quartet
- release digitally four singles, four music videos and two full-length albums!
- score some official Spotify playlist placements
Needless to say, I'm really proud of all these achievements and absolutely humbled by all the positive feedback! My most sincere gratitude goes to all of you who have streamed & shared the music from MUSA KASA's artists/projects.
What's next?
Well, there's still a few EP's and singles left in the vault and a lot of new stuff (and a "new" MUSA KASA project as well!) in the works , so stay tuned for more exiting (a little less frequent) music releases for 2022!
Gigging and booking is still covered in the veil of covid related uncertainty, but if possible, there will be another short tour and hopefully some individual concerts in somewhere around Finland/Denmark/Germany area. Finger crossed!
At the moment, the MUSA KASA label is still basically a one man project including all the planning, booking, band management, editing, mixing (got some assistance from Tomi Raikaslehto, thanks man!), marketing, web design/updates, graphic design and cover artwork (got some help with this stuff as well, thanks Sari Raikaslehto!). Its been a pretty exhausting few months, but also extremely rewarding as well.
Thank you all for following and supporting MUSA KASA!
Happy new year 2022!
p.s.
The promised "Christmas special feature" got unfortunately moved to 2022 due to unfortunate case of illness of 100% of MUSA KASA staff.
