Old Forest Echoes

Old Forest Echoes Old Forest Echoes is a music project raising awareness about Finland's endangered old growth forests.

12/03/2026

Sharing one beautiful spring day in the old growth forest of the Finnish archipelago near Raasepori 🌿

Can't wait to visit this fallen tree again in a few months with Old Forest Echoes 🌼
Explore threatened old growth forests with us this summer at forest concerts 15.8., 22.8. & 30.8.2026 ✨️

Follow, share, join us raising awareness about these fragile, important nature areas & go to the forest today 🌿

Old Forest Echoes is funded by KONE Foundation and working in partnership with Luontoliitto 🌿

Video & audio recording by Mikko H. Haapoja ✨️

https://youtu.be/0J1OwyUbCrs?si=-NoVgUEHZ8Lnj7ot

-----

Upea kevätpäivä vanhassa saaristolaismetsässä Raaseporin lähellä 🌿
”En malta odottaa, että pääsen uudelleen tämän ikipuun äärelle soittamaan saaristoon muutaman kuukauden kuluttua Old Forest Echoes -hankkeen kanssa 🌼”
Tule kanssamme uhanalaisten vanhojen metsien metsäkiertueelle 15.8., 22.8. ja 30.8.2026 ✨
Seuraa, jaa ja liity mukaan lisäämään tietoisuutta näistä hauraista ja tärkeistä luonnonalueista 🌿
Video- ja äänitallenne: Mikko H. Haapoja ✨

https://youtu.be/0J1OwyUbCrs?si=-NoVgUEHZ8Lnj7ot

02/03/2026

The snow is melting.
The old growth forest is awake.
The birds knew it before we did.
It's time to go outside 🌿

02/03/2026

Afternoon sea ice walk in -17°C ✨️
Frozen fingers and frozen nose🌿
Sometimes music comes from cold crisp winter air✨️

Every song originated from an old growth forest.

Let's use their music to protect one of them❤️

Protect them with us✨️

03/02/2026

We drove all the way from the South of Finland to Lapland to compose music in old growth forests. During this looong drive, I realised there were only young, industrial forests to be seen... clear cuts everywhere...
So I decided to take a day off, listened to a lot of Muse and then recorded a short kantele riff and vocals with tea bowl percussion on my inbuilt mic.
It is such a surprise you can get a sound like this with only the macbook☀️
Later, my friend sent me a picture from the concert he goes to today - and it was Muse🌿
Muse was today at least at two places in Finland simultaneously making music happen - Helsinki and Aalistunturi 🌿
Hopefully someday they will actually come to play in the old growth forest with us in person ❤️ until then, you can enjoy this song ☀️

Thank you Muse.


 

Testing our mini soundscape instalation for WOMEX! 🌿 Come to listen and hang out around stands  #2.24-2.32 ☀️Cannot wait...
22/10/2025

Testing our mini soundscape instalation for WOMEX! 🌿 Come to listen and hang out around stands #2.24-2.32 ☀️

Cannot wait to meet all the interesting people who are coming :)

On Saturday October the 25th, Barbora Xu is also going to be a panelist in the Narute as Collaborator conference session. Please to join us at 16:30-17:30!

Other times you can find us near the Music Finland stand (2.24-2.32) and test the soundscape installation :)

🌿

All of you are very welcome to join!
🌞

 


 
music

It is an honour to have the opportunity to present Old Forest Echoes as a part of Womex 2025 conference ✨Come to see Bar...
19/10/2025

It is an honour to have the opportunity to present Old Forest Echoes as a part of Womex 2025 conference ✨

Come to see Barbora sharing her insights on the Old Forest Echoes on Saturday 25th of October 16:30-17:30 in the “Nature as Collaborator” panel session 🌿

We are also preparing a small surprise… more to be revealed 💚

All of you are very welcome to join!
🌞
 


 
music

12/10/2025

Niklas Winter joins Old Forest Echoes as featuring artist in Solböle 🌿

 

 


music

The autumn fairy has already paid a visit but some leaves are more stubborn than others…🧚‍♀️ 🌿                          ...
05/10/2025

The autumn fairy has already paid a visit but some leaves are more stubborn than others…🧚‍♀️

🌿

 

 

The autumn fairy has already paid a visit but some leaves are more stubborn than others🧚‍♀️ 🌿                           ...
05/10/2025

The autumn fairy has already paid a visit but some leaves are more stubborn than others🧚‍♀️

🌿

 

 

Already time to snuggle up inside the tree… or wait… studio! For post production of Old Forest Echoes album 🥰Autumn is h...
25/09/2025

Already time to snuggle up inside the tree… or wait… studio! For post production of Old Forest Echoes album 🥰

Autumn is here and we are looking forward to warm fires and cups of mushroom soup…the trees are yet to turn and show us their otherworldly colours and we are ready for it 🍁🍂

Thank you, dear summer, for all experiences!

Equinox has happened and darkness is approaching fast…as is the ethereal mist of the forests whispering about secret worlds…

🦉🌿

 

 

Already time to snuggle up inside the tree… or wait… studio! For post production of Old Forest Echoes album 🥰Autumn is h...
25/09/2025

Already time to snuggle up inside the tree… or wait… studio! For post production of Old Forest Echoes album 🥰

Autumn is here and we are looking forward to warm fires and cups of mushroom soup!

The trees are yet to turn and show us their otherworldly colours and we are ready for it.

Thank you, dear summer, for all experiences!

Equinox has happened and darkness is approaching fast 🦉

 

 

The fascinating thing about music is its intrinsic relationship to nature. Each unfurling melody is like a fractal withi...
17/09/2025

The fascinating thing about music is its intrinsic relationship to nature. Each unfurling melody is like a fractal within a whole. Like a plant, we nurture the seedlings of songs and watch them grow. We have some control, but ultimately all gardeners know they don’t make the plants grow.

We are simply witnessing life as a growing, organic field of intelligence. And we are allowing it to grow in us and through us, ultimately allowing our most precious feelings to take shape through the catalyst of sound.

Vibration and resonance.

Spiralling galaxies.

For us, the forest within is the forest without.

The two connect inextricably and are nothing without one another.

🌿

That is why a one little plant is enough to spell bind me.

Same as I let one little melody lead me home.

🌿

 

 

Osoite

Kolari
95900

Hälytykset

Tiedä ensimmäisenä ja anna meille oikeus lähettää sinulle sähköpostitse uutisia ja promootioita Old Forest Echoes :ltä. Sähköpostiosoitettasi ei käytetä muihin tarkoituksiin, ja voit perua milloin tahansa.

Ota Yhteyttä Organisaatio

Lähetä viesti Old Forest Echoes :lle:

Jaa