Mr. Fastfinger's Solarium Dreams

Solarium Dreams is like a collection of mini movies. It's a sequence of adventures for your ears. Strong melodies, expressive guitar licks, thunderous bass and beating drums.

This music was made in most spontaneous way. We found a new working method. I got a lot of song sketches on my iPad. During our weekly rehearsal sessions with Thomas and Lasse, I would just scroll and see what kind of ideas I can find from my archives. We would listen to a sketch together, quickly arrange bass and drum parts. We then captured the music immediately without second thoughts. Later, in my studio I finished these recordings by adding guitars, synths, sometimes re-composed parts. This workflow helped music come alive in a new way. Many happy accident took place and we got fresh stuff canned.

This project started one and half years ago. It's been fun and rewarding project, but now I need you. You can help me with this release by pre-ordering!

I'm so happy getting this album packaged and excited to let you dive into our new adventures! 

Release day and schedule

Release day 2nd of May 2025. CD will be shipped as soon as possible. Downloads link will be sent to you on the day before the release, 1st of May.

Tracks

1. Good Things Growing (4:18)
2. Solarium Dreams (4:10)
3. Live Ringers (2:42)
4. Tron Kong (4:31)
5. Smoke Effector (3:53)
6. Night School (3:38)
7. Turtle Sky Float (1:26)
8. Windswept (5:21)
9. Krueger Dreams (2:53)
10. Rime of the Ancient Monk (4:41)
11. ReRise (1:42)
12. Demons & Ghouls 2 (5:59)
13. Glowing Forest God (3:53)
14. Connection Flight (4:50)
 

Credits

Guitar and stuff Mika Tyyskä
Bass Lasse Rantanen
Drums Thomas Törnroos

1.-13. composed by Mika Tyyskä.
14. composed by Mika Tyyskä, Lasse Rantanen and Thomas Törnroos.
All music arranged by Mika Tyyskä, Lasse Rantanen and Thomas Törnroos. 
Drums engineered by Thomas Törnroos.
Produced, directed, illustrated, animated, mixed and mastered by Mika Tyyskä.
Elektrik Pyjamas 2025

You're getting the complite version

For Spotify and such streaming platforms,  there will be shorter edition of the album with only 10 tracks / 37 minutes of music.
When you buy the music here, you'll get the full version with 14 tracks / 54 minutes of music. I believe those who buy the album and support in such great way, should get a some extra.
 

Deluxe stuff

Both (CD and download) deluxe packages come with backing tracks of the complite album. There will also be 3 full tab transcriptions (Demons & Ghouls 2, Nights School and Smoke Effector). In addidtion there will be tabs to some of Mika's favourite licks and riffs from the album. Tabs will be delivered as both Pdf and Guitar Pro 7 -files.

Pick and Poster with CD's. Later this year Mr. Fastfinger turns 20 years. 2 decades since sensei first appeared on the legenday Guitar Shred Show - website. Along with each CD, there will be a folded Guitar Shred Show - mini poster and a limited edition Guitar Shred Show -pick.
 

Pre-order or you might miss it

The fact is, selling music is very hard. I rather not have a huge pile of CD collecting dust in the corner of my studio. The amount of pre-orders will dictate how many copies of CDs I'm ordering from the factory. There will not be that many copies of CD's in addition to the one that you pre-order here. If you want this CD, if you want to support, this is the moment.

Note the tipping!

At the check out there's "Indiegogo tipping", this money goes to Indiegogo (which is good too) and not to our project. If you want to give extra tip to the project and Mika. there's will be additional "Tip to Mika" add-on perks you can choose to have once checking out. One tip gives you 3 extra picks (for CD orders only) . The other tip gives you a bonus track (wav file).
 

The Impact

You taking part in this will help me cover the costs of making this album. And hopefully I'm able to bring some bread and cheese to my family too. Successful campaign allows me to dedicate time on our next album (which is already composed, and partly recorded).

Most humble thank you for contributing and helping!
I respect this moment.

Mika Tyyskä,
March 17th 2025, Askola, Finland