{"id":15682,"date":"2021-06-03T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15682"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:13:30","slug":"sami-yaffa-goes-to-the-innermost-journey-to-your-outermost-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15682","title":{"rendered":"Sami Yaffa goes to The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guy who needs no introduction around these parts is SAMI YAFFA<\/strong>, best known for his work with\u00a0New York Dolls<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael Monroe Band<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Hanoi Rocks\u00a0<\/strong>has announced the release of his first solo album \u201cThe Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind<\/strong>\u201d, out on September 22nd, 2021. The first single \u201cThe Last Time<\/strong>\u201d will be released on June 11th via Livewire\/Cargo Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Last Time is one of the first songs I wrote for this album when still living in Brooklyn NY back in 2015. It\u2019s a story about two people whose communication is stuck. How hard it is to change one\u2019s habits, no matter how much one wants it. It’s about the frustration and distress of addiction<\/em>\u201d –\u00a0Sami Yaffa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Produced by Sam Yaffa. Mixed by Erno Laitinen. Mastered by Pauli Saastamoinen At Finnvox Studios. Recorded by Erno Laitinen \/ Sam Yaffa \/ Janne Haavisto \/ Jose “Puter” Puigserve.<\/p>\n

Sami Yaffa<\/strong>\u00a0has had a unique career as a musician. He joined the punk band\u00a0Pelle Miljoona Oy<\/strong>\u00a0at the tender age of 16 and played on the band’s now-legendary album Moottoritie On Kuuma.\u00a0Pelle Miljoona Oy<\/strong>\u00a0was Finland’s number one band at the time, but Yaffa and his future cohorts were aiming higher: as an original member of the band\u00a0Hanoi Rocks<\/strong>, he spent the first half of the \u201980s as an international rock musician with all its ups, downs and trappings. The band influenced many of the acts that would later become huge in the world of Rock n\u2019 Roll – including\u00a0Guns n` Roses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After the break-up of\u00a0Hanoi Rocks<\/strong>, Yaffa was asked to join some of the most notable artists in R\u2019n\u2019R history such as\u00a0Joan Jett and The Blackhearts<\/strong>\u00a02002-04, as well as one of\u00a0Hanoi Rocks’<\/strong>\u00a0major influences, the New York Dolls 2004-10. In 2009 he started a band with the\u00a0Hanoi Rocks<\/strong>\u00a0singer\u00a0Michael Monroe<\/strong>. This collaboration continues to this day, but now Yaffa is also releasing music under his own name.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe idea for the solo album started to take shape a few years back. Previously I had written music for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe Band, but now some of the songs that I was writing and had written started to sound more and more like my own stuff instead of what I would write for those bands.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

What kind of music does\u00a0Yaffa\u00a0release under his own name then? Versatile. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved bands like The Clash and Rolling Stones. They could write country, funk, reggae, rock`n`roll or jazz without fear and make it their own. I wanted to have that same kind of versatility and freedom for my own record.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The album has wide influences, but that is hardly surprising to those who have followed Yaffa’s career: in addition to his own musical career, he has been getting to know the musical traditions from different parts of the world as the host and co-creator for the Sami Yaffa: Sound Tracker TV series. \u201cHowever, my roots are deeply in punk and rock`n`roll. I don’t shy away from that.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though it\u2019s a solo record, Sami has always been a member of bands and because of that, a team player. Yaffa mentions a couple of names without whom the record would not have come to completion – at least the way it finally became. The first to mention is a childhood friend, drummer\u00a0Janne Haavisto<\/strong>\u00a0with whom Sami made his first forays into the world of music. Sami and Janne created the basic tracks together and invited valued friends and musicians to collaborate on the album.\u00a0Rich Jones<\/strong>, the guitarist from the\u00a0Michael Monroe<\/strong>\u00a0band helped pull together a lot of the songs lyrically,\u00a0Christian Martucci<\/strong>\u00a0from the band\u00a0Stone Sour<\/strong>\u00a0played guitar on half of the album, the other half was played by another old friend\u00a0Rane<\/strong>\u00a0from the cult band\u00a0Smack<\/strong>\u00a0and Sami\u2019s old bro from the\u00a0Hanoi<\/strong>\u00a0days,\u00a0Timo Kaltio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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A guy who needs no introduction around these parts is SAMI YAFFA, best known for his work with\u00a0New York Dolls,\u00a0Michael Monroe Band\u00a0and\u00a0Hanoi Rocks\u00a0has announced the release of his first solo album \u201cThe Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind\u201d, out on September 22nd, 2021. The first single \u201cThe Last Time\u201d will be released on June 11th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[146,1986,123,1591,6807,165,654,265,1679,309,138,6806,1091],"class_list":["post-15682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cheap-and-nasty","tag-christian-martucci","tag-hanoi-rocks","tag-izzy-stradlin","tag-janne-haavisto","tag-michael-monroe","tag-new-york-dolls","tag-rich-jones","tag-rock-n-growl","tag-sami-yaffa","tag-smack","tag-stone-soursikka","tag-timo-kaltio","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15688,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions\/15688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}