Hi Jan,

last year I bought your EP with "White Rider" and "Black Rider", "Voices" and all the other songs. I liked them so much that I put all the songs on my MP3-player and the songs are still on it. So I can hear them every day and I do it. I like your music very much and it would be very sad when I couldn't get more from "All of us". You're all great musicans, Juulia's great voice.... I know life is not easy, especially in the music business.
I've posted the link of your blog in the sunrise ave forum and I hope a lot of people will read it. You have there fans, too.
Don't give up, your music is worth it.

pusu ja hali

Andrea
 

Hi Andrea, thanx for those warm words.
It feels great to know that somebody listens to our music,
but our problem of course is; how much time we invest and how many people think like you.

we didn't and we still don't want to go the commercial way.
but that also means we cant do stuff all the time.
listen to what you have and wait, there might be more soon.
or then there will be more AOU-music but in a different way.
no-one knows

love ya

one of the ghosts of AOU
 

Hello,

You have fans all around the worls,you should never give up,look at your page,many people come there to listen your music,isnt it the proff?ofcourse it is!
who will win?you or the other side of the life!you should make this decision
 

hi gizem,
yes there are some people (and each one of them is a treasure) in different countries that like our music and that understand the lyrics, but its only a few.

who will win? its not a real question. because there is only one answer; capitalism always wins. people cant do stuff for free for ever. they will go for the money, they will go for a job in which they earn something.

i am not there yet, but others already took this way and that means their hobbies will get less attention.
 

I do! I do care, I do listen everyday to you music, I do love your music and the reason why your music exists.
But I do also understand WHY you all get these doubts,
I do know how it is being very busy with reaching or forfilling the dream
and I do see that it's kind of hard to keep track of all these thing equipollent.
But I do NOT understand how you loose the faith in us, in your fans.
I do not understand how this happened.
I just can imagine:
You 3 are so pleasant, selfless, you want to please everybody, but you also have to think about your future, you know life cant go on like that the next 30 years.
Maybe you really just put all your energy in reaching your dream, Jarkko gets to the school and I really know how happy he is and just can understand why hes so busy not with this, Juulia didnt but she will not give up. Thats why she has AT THE MOMENT no energy left for the project. And you are tired of motivate them.
I just thought maybe you need a little time to get new energy, but maybe you still need more time?!
Maybe you should not try to fork yourself and your energy in the music and your future, because if you just can give the half of it to every topic it will not work.
And maybe your future has premacy at the moment.
Maybe you should take some time until your real life become normal, your everyday life, and THEN beginn to put your excessive power again in music - I just can imagine how amazing (even if I cant believe music can be better than this) the new songs would be!
Just keep all this messages in mind and heart and get them out whenever your feeling down, because I know everyone has sometimes a moment he or she feels bad, then just keep this little messages out and Im sure it will help - to open your eyes again and put a smile upon your face.

This is just an advide.... exactly what you waited for. Answers... Questions....
Oh, one thing I forgot:
I just cant imagine living without your music.
Without your inimitable Celloparts, Jarkko, without your crazyness and happiness on stage animating me to think about jumping up off my seat and making me wanna dance in a huge room full of people just sitting around.
Without your unbelievable angelic voice, dear Juulia, without your power and the real meaning of what you sing on stage, when looking in my eyes and singing the lines together, and of course your extraordinary lovable being.
And without your inspiring lyrics, Jan, without these thoughtful lyrics making me wondering how naive I was before and making me understand the world more - but also less, not to forget all you arrange or do for All Of Us, without we would not know you 3 wonderful and unique persons.

Your music changed my life. I would not think about life and the world I do now without your music.
Be proud of what you've done the last 2 years and let it rest or
go on like this and change much more people, changing their lifes.
Whatever you'll do, I'll stand behind you.

♥
 

this is hard. very hard to answer.

first of all, you wrote this mostly to me(jan) but this(our) statement was about the band(yes, in the second half ur answer is towards the band).

so i will need to answer for myself and for the band.

thank you! (we shout together)

u are right in many things, but things are not as simple as i wrote.
it was a censored version anyways.

what is your dream, what is my dream, what is our dream? dreams are dreams. you cannot work for your dream because its not you who will decide if you reach it or if it becomes true.
but you can do things you want and things you like. the day that u realize you dont like it that much anymore, or you got other things that seem more important; that day people change their mind.
-once again; i am not one of them.
some are.
 

Maybe a lot of children hear your music just of luck and sing and dance, don't it make you smile?
and the feeling you touch somebody with you songs, isn't it amazing?
isn't music your life?
So isn't it worth a try?
You ever tried?
You ever failed?
Try again!
and fail BETTER!
if you now throw all the music thing away, yes than it wasn't worth it.
This blog (actually the last sentences) sounds like a blackmail "if you do not answer, you will never hear something about AOU again".....
???????!!!!!
I don't understand myself,too.
I don't have a easy life, too. (who have?)
I don't know weather the things I do are worth it.
I don't know if You go on.
In fact I care about everything I don't know.
 

thank you darling.

well, there are not a lot of children who dance and smile to our music, because so far it wasn't dancable music and not too happy either;-)

but u r fully right; we get touched by a lot of songs and it is great to hear that somebody gets touched by our songs.
yes, it is amazing.

the last lines were no blackmail; we want you to talk to us. we want people to say what they think. we want people to tell their opinion. thank you; you answered. not that many did, you see?!

one thing for aure; we wont throw our "music-things away",
you will hear from us again! from all of us(hopefully) or some of us.

we love you.
 

hi,

yes it is like yes or now / dead or alive.
it is like that for everybody, isn't it?

definitely this was not joke and definitely we don't doubt our fans!
but if we dont have many people listening at myspace, how can we know that people listen at all?
how can we know it is worth it that we use so much time, so much money...

you are worth it, every single one of you. we really do think so, but it is not possible to do our kind of music (5 times more expensive than an average rock-band) only for a few people. and if our lyrics dont work out for many, it just means we dont do music that fits this time period.

if you got a store that sells ice cubes at the nordpol, there wont be many ice bears that will buy them. if you had a travel agency selling short trips to hawai, it would work.

wow, what a metaphor;-)

we love you for loving our music.
and we feel happy that u can get strength from it.
 

Thans for the new blog! ;] We didn't heard about you so long time, but finally you write, so it is nice to read about you all again! (:

I am happy Jarkko is student now and he is trying to do something more for himself, forhis future and career.

It's good Juulia is doing something she wants even she is not on some university, but nevermind, there is still chance, as you wrote, next year. :-)

I didn't know you have a girlfriend... you should put some photos of you together ;=] What you do is perfect... you are support for all around you, please keep tryin' to motivate them to NOT GIVE UP :( it would be bad if you did it! Please, persuade them... because we know you will get over your problems etc.

I DO care! I like your style, your music, all the members and songs too, of course ☺ well, I don't listen to you every day, but I sing your songs, add your lyrics to slovak page with lyrics and I translated them in summer... I didn't forget about you not on holidays! You have also many fans all over the Europe, I know it ;)
Please do, what you did for your fans, because they alway were / are / willbe there FOR YOU!!!

With ♥ Lydka
 

jep, here we are again;-)

thank you for ur message.
its so sweet and so nice to hear this.
slovenia rules!

yes, i have agirlfriend, but i dont think i will put any photos anywhere soon. why should i? she is mine and not yours;-) and i dont want you to have her,ever;-) just kiddin':-)

we wont give up, but we might give something up.
we all have to, someday.

but its not "someday" yet.
 

Guys,

I don't know if this is gonna be any help or even what you expect here, but I really want you to know how much your music means to me.
Just like many other, I only stumbled across you because of ‘White Rider’, which instantly amazed me with its incredible depth and beauty. I honestly never knew a song could be like that.
As soon as it came out, I bought the EP and once again was totally stunned by these awesome songs. Everything about your music is so pure and REAL, it touched me in a way I have never known before.
When I finally came to Helsinki in February, No 1 on my list was to buy your album. I didn’t even have a CD player with me (really smart...) but I can still remember lying on my hostel-bed and reading the lyrics. All I thought was “Yes... yes... YES!” Every single word of them is just so TRUE, it’s almost scary. And the way these words fit with the great music... I really cannot express what this album has done to me, for me and with me. Maybe so much: I don’t think 12 years of school taught me nearly as much about life as this 70-minutes CD. Even though I didn’t even have the chance to meet you or see you live (yet), you have touched and changed my life in a way nobody did before.

Please know, whatever you choose to do or not to do in the future (and I totally understand that your private future is your first priority right now), your music will always be some special treasure among all the ‘ordinary’ stuff on my mp3-player. Thanks for all the dreams, truths and wisdom you’ve shared with me.

Be strong, don’t be afraid to be different and live your dreams – that’s what this Finnish band taught me. ;-)

I send you my love and hope to see you soon!

Anna
 

wow.
boys can cry too!
u made me.

this is so nice and so beautiful to hear. and scary the same time.

i wont answer in public to this, but if u send your blog as message, i will! for all of us.

luv
 

you loves us? we love you too.
 

I do care…….
Its almost 1 year ago since I heard the first time ur music n since that day I listen everyday ur songs n without that something would be missing…
I’m really not good in saying what I’m feeling, so I just can tell u I hope u go on with AOU coz ur music is so different n unique n means so much for me!!I will alway try my best to support u!!
I just love u!!:)
Whatever what will happen in the future I wish u ALL THE BEST!!
lots of love
Jule
xxx
 

jule,
you are great, but u know that!
if you don't - then it means u didnt open your eyes yet!
'cos u are! -others know(your friends n your favorite band)!

wonderful that u stick to our music and that u love it and that u crossed the globe in order to see us. this is extraordinary! no-one will forget.
 

I do. I care, I like and I listen to your music every day. With your music, you gave me something anyone else could give. I don't exactly know what, but I have changed in a good way. I wouldn't simply believe in the strenght of all dreams, and wouldn't be sure of being myself, doing what I love to do.
 

change is good. almost always. it means we are ready to say goodbye to the past and to welcome the future.

if you have changed because of our music, it must be in a good way, because otherwise our music was bad for you. we hope not:-)

lovely magda;
believe in yourself, because only you have the power to change the world around you.
and you should! you should change the world, so the world understands to respect people like u, little people. people like us.
 

Hi!
First of all: WE love YOU, too!
Of course I care about All of us, what a question! ;-)
I am proud owner of the White rider/Black rider EP and even if I don't listen to it every single day, it often finds it's way into my CD-player, car, etc. Sometimes I even have to fight with my kids who is allowed to have the CD the next few days! ;-)
I absolutely love your work, because it's different from the usual mainstream-stuff, something really special, and you feel that the work was done with lots of passion.
I REALLY hope you won't give up, it would be a great loss!
Take care!
 

lovely, just lovely.
thank you for your comment.

we hope your kids are well.
this is history; 2 generations who listen to the same music?! wow, thats unique.
u got great kids, or you are a great mother.
or then; most realistic; both!
that must be it.


yes we are different than mainstream, because we want to be. but it also means we have less people that hear us;
and that causes problems(check the blog-answers before).

anyways; it was great to hear from you, it still is great to know YOU ARE and we hope that we will BE. all of us, you,your kids and music. music we love.
 

Hey! I must admit, I am a bit shocked since I am just after having found your music for myself...Lost and found? Found and lost again? Thats a very sad thing. But I can understand that because it's true, everything what matters in the end is the money. I really hope that you'll find a way out of this problem and I'll be able to look at you again when I am in Helsinki as an au-pair. So good look!Don't give up. Don't let the money win! Hugs and kisses, Eileen