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Torcha blog by Kärtsy - part 2
Sami's blog: Torcha already 30 years
Waltari - Curiosity (Live from Vaasa 1991)
Did you get fooled on April fools'?
New old song - unreleased material for our fans and friends!
Greetings from Mr. Lordi to Waltari fans and friends
Check out here the idea behind the whole FunClub and Kärtsy's video greetings: What is Waltari Funclub?
The club was founded originally back in the 90s and it was something our fans had wished for. The club organized meetings and had a member card. We even had Funzine-magazines! At some point we had around 1 500 members in the FunClub enjoying the great Waltari “atmosfear”. Due to the past big changes in the world, it is a good time to bring the FunClub back. It’s a place to meet other fans and interact with the band – kind of getting a backstage pass. The re-opened FunClub will offer lots of unreleased bonus materials throughout our journey and aims to offer some fun to your daily life.
AUF DEUTSCH:
Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Waltari FunClub?
Der Club wurde ursprünglich in den 90er Jahren gegründet und war etwas, was sich unsere Fans gewünscht hatten. Der Club organisierte Treffen und hatte eine Mitgliedskarte. Wir hatten sogar ein eigenes Funzine-Magazin! Nach einiger Zeit hatten wir etwa 1.500 Mitglieder im FunClub, die die großartige Waltari "atmosfear" genossen. Aufgrund der großen Veränderungen in der Welt ist es aus unserer Sicht ein guter Zeitpunkt, den FunClub wieder ins Leben zu rufen. Es soll ein Ort sein, an dem man andere Fans treffen und mit der Band interagieren und - eine Art Backstage-Pass. Der wiedereröffnete FunClub wird viele unveröffentlichte Bonusmaterialien anbieten und soll euch ein wenig Spaß in euren Alltag bringen.
(In English below)
Jariotin muisteloita Torcha-ajasta
Päätimme lähteä Berliiniin treenaamaan seuraavaa levyä (Torchaa). Kärtsy ja minä lopetettiin hyvät päivätyöt. Nuoremmat, Sami ja Janne, olivat saaneet koulunsa päätökseen. Otettiin Helsingin treenikämpältämme kaikki soittokamamme laulukamoja myöten mukaan ja lähdettiin.
Meillä oli vahva usko, että jotain uutta Waltarin uraa edistävää löytyisi Berliinistä ja Saksasta.
Ja hyvin siinä kävi. Jo muutaman viikon ja muutamien klubikeikkojen jälkeen kaksi hyvänkokoista levy-yhtiötä oli valmiina tekemään kanssamme levytyssopimuksen. (Vuonna 1997 yritimme samaa New Yorkissa, mutta onnea ei ollut samassa määrin mukana.)
Olimme Berliinissä kolme kuukautta. Harjoittelimme Torcha-materiaalia kuusi tuntia päivässä, ja noin kerran viikossa soitimme jonkin klubi- tai baarikeikan. Luulen, että tuona aikana yhteissoittomme kehittyi valtavasti. Takaisin Suomeen saavuttuamme soitimme keikkoja täysissä klubeissa. Uutiset uudesta ulkomaisesta levy-yhtiöstä olivat saapuneet jo Suomeen.
Pian Suomeen palattuamme rupesimme äänittämään Torchaa. Se oli helppoa. Olimme Berliinissä harjoitelleet ja sovittaneet laulut valmiiksi.Odotukset levystä olivat kovat. Ja levy lunastikin ne. Mahtavia arvosteluja Keski-Euroopan musiikkilehdistössä, ja muistaakseni Suomessakin. Torchasta tuli ehkä Waltarin legendaarisin levy.
Jariot's memories of Torcha period
We decided to go to Berlin with a view to prepare the next album called Torcha. Kärtsy and I left our good day jobs. The younger ones, Sami and Janne, had just finished school. We picked up all our musical equipment, including vocal equipment, from our training location in Helsinki and set off. We had a strong belief that in Berlin and Germany something new could be found to promote Waltari's career.
And it did go well. After only a few weeks and a few club gigs, two pretty big record companies were ready to sign a recording contract with us. (In 1997 we tried the same thing in New York but didn't have as much luck there.)
We were in Berlin for three months. We practiced Torcha material for six hours a day, and about once a week we played a club or bar gig. I think that during that time our playing together developed enormously. After returning to Finland, we played gigs in full clubs. The news about the new foreign record company had already arrived in Finland.
Soon after returning to Finland, we started recording Torcha. It was easy. We had rehearsed and arranged the songs in Berlin. The expectations for the album were high, and the album did redeem them. There were great reviews in the Central European music press and, as I recall, also in Finland. Torcha became perhaps Waltari's most legendary album.
-Jariot-
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Hello dear fans and supporters!
To celebrate Torcha Anniversary and to treat you for the Midsummer season, we are now giving access to previously unreleased 45-minute video documentary of our Torcha Midsummer Tour in Finland. The year was - of course - 1993 and we were young and crazy! Some things never change and you can guess which one of these has prevailed. In this clip you will see authentic tour life and how people reacted to our music already back then. Please see the little snippet linked to this post to see how it was :D
This is part of our Torcha celebration and we sure hope to have same kind of atmosphere in the upcoming Classic Line Up Gigs in September - do you have your tickets already? There you will see the same guys as in this documentary, playing live again and playing Torcha album + some extras!
You can find all the details for this tour on our website
There's also some crazy crowd surfers at the end of this video. If you know who they are, have them send us email at waltari.official@gmail.com - we have something special for them!
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