Above & Past's Paavo Siljamäki Drops Exploratory Solo Album, "Deeper Tales"

After battling numerous private and health-related points, Siljamäki’s self-reflection transcends into his blissful debut album as P.O.S.

Composing music that focuses so closely on build-ups and drops might prohibit inventive freedom.

Paavo Siljamäki is aware of this effectively. The famend producer, one-third of the legendary dance music group Above & Past, has launched his debut solo album, Deeper Tales. Launched underneath his P.O.S. alias, the file is an ode to the rediscovery of his youthful self, a teenaged rave child at Burning Man and golf equipment in Ibiza.

Thanks partly to a two-decade-plus profession with Above & Past, Siljamäki’s title has lengthy been etched within the annals of dance music historical past. And whereas that work has turn out to be the soundtrack to many a trance fan’s reminiscences, he is now able to pen his subsequent chapter with P.O.S.

Over the past 5 years, Siljamäki has battled numerous private and health-related points, together with Covid-19. The pitfalls of a stress- and sleep-deprived schedule contrived by the music enterprise ultimately caught up with him.

“Mainly, I had a burnout,” Siljamäki mentioned in a press launch shared with EDM.com. “I simply could not see what I wished to do. And after my burnout, I used to be like, ‘What’s dance music to me?’ I do not actually know even when I prefer it. I’ve heard—I’ve written—too many build-ups! So I assumed, ‘That me is completed.'”

Nature has additionally given him a renewed function. Above & Past’s ambient album, Circulate State, was closely impressed by nature and helped pulled him again to the dancefloor.

“There is not any feeling of freedom like being at sea,” Siljamäki added. “Once I’m crusing, I synchronize with the dawn and sundown—we nearly all the time stand up at dawn. So that is like being actually aligned with nature. I discovered that, after my burnout, and Covid, I actually discovered myself in nature. There’s one thing about being nearer with nature that’s actually therapeutic—and really inspiring.”

You may stream Deeper Tales right here.