In 2002, while making a record for their nu-soul-oriented band Quintessence, the four men in the rhythm section felt the sudden urge to get funky. This resulted in a jam session that eventually found a place on their album. The sensation of joy that followed these recordings left the musicians hoping for more of the same. Luckily their record company's (then called Texicalli) policy was to make "good records and friends' records", and they had already befriended their "label guy" to the extent that he agreed to let the guys go to a professional studio for a couple of days and "like jam and stuff, you know..."------
It was originally intended as an instrumental deep funk exploration, but the idea evolved to playing different types of grooves, without any concern to whether the sound related to any one particular period or style. The concept of "Quintessential Grooves" was born. The first 3-day jam session resulted in hours and hours of strange, freeflowing grooves caught on hard disk.------The next phase was critical. Someone had to make sense of all this nonsensical material. The task was willingly accepted by the keyboard player Tuomo and Aki, the guitarist. This proved to be a nearly fatal error. The unsuspecting pair embarked on a journey that would slowly deprive them of any concept of reality and fill their frail little heads with delusions of grandeur. ------The mind altering effects of the "Quintessential grooves" first kicked in during the long and hypnotic process of editing. Every night after leaving the studio Tuomo and Aki sat down at a local bar and pondered the possibility of expanding the music further. Little did they realize that the sweet scent of "producing" was luring them towards the edge of insanity. Suddenly they had gone from the idea of pure and simple grooves to recording tons of overdubs of guitars, keyboards, percussion, horns and vocals on each song. Chaos ruled in the studio.------
In the midst of this madness the "producers" lost their sense of identity and started calling themselves "Nestor". The project also had a new name: "Q-continuum". They even had the record company rename itself as "Jupiter". The first three songs to come out of this were released in december 2003 on a 12" EP called "Organ Kane presents: The Quintessential Grooves". This confusing title stirred the music community. Who was Organ Kane? This question would remain unaswered for a whole year.------The original intention had been to release one or maybe two vinyl EPs, but as the
minds of "Nestor" drifted further into darkness, the ultimate goal of their diabolic plans began to appear in front of them: a double album. This was to be their manifesto, their holy scripture. They had managed to drag their bandmates into raving lunacy with them. The bass player Heikki, who had been known as a sensible and quiet man, was now convinced that he had been bitten by a radioactive man and occasionally turned into "The Incredible Helk". Drummer Mikko was dubbed "The Resonant Man Kaak" and was often heard demonstrating his "superpower", "The Resonant Voice".------
Somehow this deranged group of "people" succeeded in finishing their double album. It was released december 2004. The deeply disturbing coverart made evident the level of insanity these poor musicians had reached. The identity of Organ Kane was finally revealed. He was the alter ego of Tuomo, who had tired of his role as the keyboard player and was now more concerned with being "the lead vocalist". Organ Kane was supposedly "The Lost Cowboy" who, together with his "faithful companion, Tin Hau" (apparently a dog), battled his nemesis, "Tintintin, interstellar Tool/Porn smuggler". The album's booklet featured pages and pages of blurry photographs of the several band members who had been introduced to the madness of Q-continuum. These included hornmen Verneri, Ilmari and Antti, also known as "Mr. Manners", "The Mummy" and "The Wizard Hynni". Many more musicians were involded in the making of the album, but most of them were able to escape when the "band" started showing the characteristics of a religious cult. One of the more unfortunate ones was the lead singer of Quintessence, Emma who was now known as "The Air-Conditioning Woman".------The music world was baffled. Should this kind of behaviour be tolerated or even supported on the basis that the music was brilliant? The press tried to quiet it down, but the group nonetheless gained a cult following. They were playing intensive shows, sometimes with 5 people on stage, sometimes 15. The size of the audiences also varied, but no one was left unaffected by their message:"Spreadlove". This was often misinterpreted as a suggestion to "spread love", when it actually referred to an imaginary substitute for butter, or as the album cover stated "Q-nut butter & Jelly, spreadlove for your sandwich".------
Eventually the fuss around them quited down. People got used to the existence of "Q" in their everyday lives and the people of Jupiter were allowed to live in peace amongst the other dwellers of Tellus. End of story?------Not quite. The permanently fractured minds of these Jupiterians were constantly working on new ways to change the world they were forced to live in. Even before the release of the double album, they were already working on their next project, "The Marienhof". It was based on the realization of the fact that there were other deluded musicians in their now expanded network of friends. They were of course rappers. Like the members of Q-continuum, these rappers fabricated their identities and hid behind names they made up for themselves.------ The project started with two featured vocalists, "Father Metro" and "MC Paleface". The task of getting rappers into studios proved much harder than Nestor had expected, and they had to keep searching for new contributing sickos. Most of these crazy rappers were still sane enough to avoid being drafted, but some eventually broke under pressure. After almost three years the album "Q-continuum presents: This Is The Marienhof" was completed with the added talents of "Puppa J.", "Natty Kauka", "Indievidual" and "Axl Smith". The increasingly altered egos of the Q-continunites were also featured, including: the killer robot "Smultron", who allegedly slaughtered predecessor "Helk"; "-money" another dark side of the singer Emma; and of course the now sheriff of the town of Marienhof, Texas: Organ Kane. The Release date was February 1st 2006. The following events are so well known, that they need not be reported here.
------Today these poor tortured geniuses live in the small and peaceful town of Helsinki, Finland. There have been rumors that they will soon start working on a concept album based on Finnish author Mika Waltari's "The Egyptian". Also, it is rumored that Tuomo has been working on a confessional solo album. Time will show whether these boys are able to live up to the expectations that are placed upon them. And of course they are! Who could ever doubt the omnipotence of Nestor?! The Electric bass vocal of Smultron?! The cucumber mask of -Money?! The wild whirlwind of air from the horns led by Mr. Manners?! The almighty resonant voice and hard rocking beats of Kaak?! No one.
No one!!!------
Yours truly,
Organ Kane