{"id":10814,"date":"2015-05-12T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=10814"},"modified":"2015-05-12T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:21:35","slug":"introducing-mikkokoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/05\/introducing-mikkokoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Mikkokoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10815\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10815\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/05\/introducing-mikkokoo\/mikkokoo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mikkokoo.jpg?fit=450%2C677&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,677\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Mikkokoo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mikkokoo.jpg?fit=450%2C677&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-10815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mikkokoo.jpg?resize=450%2C677&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mikkokoo\" width=\"450\" height=\"677\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikkokoo. Photo by Tero Puha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mikko Karhu is an Alternative Electronica Indie Pop Singer Songwriter\/Sound Artist from Finland. Performing as Mikkokoo and these days based in London, he released his debut album, &#8220;Gauzes&#8221; last year. A collaboration with Losta (aka Stavros Chatzikian), who played keyboards, arranged the songs and produced the album, Mikko wrote and sang all the lyrics on &#8220;Gauzes&#8221;, while the pair composed the music together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Gauzes&#8221;\u00a0is an assail on the senses, but not in a bad way. It surprises and confronts the listener, and if you listen to the lyrics you realise it&#8217;s more or less a concept album with the base theme of life and getting through it. Lead track, &#8220;Goal&#8221;, is a hypnotic\u00a0dance number with a robotic voice overlaid on electronic beats and rhythms, it speaks of achieving your dreams, and the journey taken to get there. &#8220;Door Flower&#8221;, a song about the twist and turns (often unexpected) of surviving life, is part rap, part dance &#8211; and very catchy. &#8220;Only In My Mind&#8221;, is about the challenges of not knowing how to get out of the situation you&#8217;re in, while &#8220;Dilemmas&#8221; is about sacrifices we have to make when faced with the differences between ourselves and those we love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We particularly enjoyed &#8220;Stolen Secrets&#8221;, a song about being different and believing in yourself. Should we ask for help, or not? It&#8217;s a song everyone can relate to, performed in a melancholy, dreamy style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Mikkokoo on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mikkokookoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/mikkokoo\" target=\"_blank\">Reverbnation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkokoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Rollingvagrants\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/Mikkokoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ello.co\/mikkokoo\" target=\"_blank\">Ello<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/artist\/4iNF10x1yJeAWVtdX8jF2T\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mikkokookoo\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mikkokoo\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikkokookoo\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. You can buy &#8220;Gauzes&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/gauzes\/id919073675?ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gauzes-Mikkokoo\/dp\/B00NLRET56\/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1410852573&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=mikkokoo\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mikkokoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/gauzes\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a>, which also has\u00a0a limited edition CD available, featuring an extra song, &#8220;Holster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_87585\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IVJW100zrA?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Mikkokoo - Stolen Secrets\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2IVJW100zrA\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikko Karhu is an Alternative Electronica Indie Pop Singer Songwriter\/Sound Artist from Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[111,1439,505,1438,743,65,1440,1437,1436,77,226,1441],"class_list":["post-10814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","tag-album","tag-electronica","tag-finland","tag-gauzes","tag-indie","tag-london","tag-losta","tag-mikko-karhu","tag-mikkokoo","tag-new-release","tag-pop","tag-stavros-chatzikian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2Oq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25880,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/02\/its-all-pink-with-debut-album-from-finnish-singer-songwriter-gea\/","url_meta":{"origin":10814,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s All &#8216;Pink&#8217; 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