Their News

February 20th, 2024: The duo published a new EP with 3 songs that were recorded in 2018 but not published yet in their official discography. The songs were remastered by Yvalain earlier this month. The song "Is There Any Love In You?" features Remco Heemskerk and Gaby Cardoso. The EP is available on all streaming sites. Just search for "Yvalain" or for "Juha Hintikka". Links to the streaming sites here below.

April 2024: 2nd Opus of BAROQUE SPIRIT PUBLISHED!

In 2023 the duo published their first album of neo-baroque music, named BAROQUE SPIRIT1, a project nurtured by Yvalain for years, finally realized. The recording sessions of the next volume "BAROQUE SPIRIT 2" have started in 2022. 😊

September 2024: JOURNEY, our special prog-rock album is published on all streaming sites. See below

NEW. Our music is now also available on BandCamp.

Tap on the picture to access our BandCamp site

"JOURNEY" is a long instrumental track (25 mn) in the pure tradition of progressive-rock. Think of Pink Floyd's Echoes or Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and other epic albums for our song format (not the style which is ours).

Do you think you could take the time to savor all the richness of our song? We bet that there is an audience for such ambitious pieces. Prove us that we're not wrong

Various moments in our song from space music, medieval mood, electro-dance, world music and even jazz. All instruments are played by Yvalain Debodinance (France), wind instruments by Juha Hintikka (Finland), and in the final of the song Remco Heemskerk played a guitar solo.

The album b-side presents 4 more rich and passionate compositions recorded with the great help of Peter Murr. All 5 songs were recorded between 2016 and 2024.

Latest Album Release

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Yvalain & Juha Hintikka Discography

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Yvalain & Juha Hintikka albums and singles are available on all known streaming services under our individual names.

So you can find our common works when you go to Yvalain's artist page, or to Juha Hintikka's

EP

Berlin, a song composed and played by Yvalain & Juha Hintikka, with Remco Heemskerk on lead guitar

One of our exploration of urban music, very exciting

Audio samples of our album "TAO"

TAO is a collection of songs created by Yvalain & Juha Hintikka, our short Best Of album. Introducing the Dutch guitarist Remco Heemskerk on the final track "Berlin"

For the same reasons than for Zapple Pie the whole recording process is based on internet exchanges. Juha lives in Finland. Yvalain in France. 1) Yvalain prepares the structure of the song and records a preliminary basic section that will be used as a reference by Juha. 2) Juha records his tracks at home and sent them to Yvalain. Juha selects the instrument that he feels adequate for the song among various formats of flutes and recorders. 3) Yvalain inserts his partner track(s) into the song, he refines the basic section, and he often adds arrangements such as synths, percussion, orchestral parts. 4) Yvalain prepares the mix and share it with Juha who suggests change if need be. When both of them are satisfied, the duo can publish the song and prepare a video (which follows a bit the same process, using green screens for example to show the 2 members playing together seemingly in the same location).

One album in the spotlight

You can listen the whole album on YouTube Music. Open the playlist

One song in the spotlight

📽️ Their videos

YVALAIN & Juha HINTIKKA on YouTube

Yvalain & Juha videos can be watched on Yvalain's YT channel

Visuals

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Yvalain & Juha Hintikka - Archaeology

Yvalain: "My partners know how long it takes me to really be satisfied with my mixes and with the sounds. As time runs I always find something that does not sound right to my ears. My mixing technique evolved in time, I acquired new techniques and new software tools to improve the sound. The temptation was big - and I could not resist - to reopen my old recordings and try to make them sound better. The official published discography is the result of this years-lasting process. But it's fun to display once more the original covers. Indeed when the albums were reworked, they were restructured with different track-lists and the old covers did not seem good enough. So here we go, let's open my archives 🤓"

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Here are their first albums versions. They are no longer on line 😃

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