Member in bands
KARI OLLI IS CURRENT MEMBER IN
| Name | Instrument | Member from |
|---|---|---|
| Pressure Points | Guitars,Vocals | - |
Biography
I began playing when I was nine years old, in 1992. I became enthusiastic about music before I started playing, at the age of five. I grew in a strongly musical family and the first touch to music was through my father's collection of different records, which included Rush, King Crimson, Dixie Dregs, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and later on Camel, Kansas, Toto and Steve Vai plus a big number of other great acts in music.
My first guitar - which was the main instrument from the beginning - was an old acoustic which I played for five years before moving to electric guitars.
Musical roots were in progressive rock and heavy so the leap to modern metal happened naturally in the 90's. The real encouragement to playing guitar came from Andrew Latimer & Robert Fripp; their phenomenal sense of melody and composing skills still amazes and inspires me. While I grew older my eyes opened to many other genres and other fields of music. I sang alone and in the school choir and played to my own enjoyment before the beginning of band activities. In 1997 I bought my first electric guitar. During the same year we formed some band attempts one after another along with a few childhood friends, but none of them really worked. We also suffered from the lack of spaces to practice and playing skills, heh.
1999 was a year which made a turn towards greater co-playing when I joined to an unnamed band at the time which later became to be known as Gloria Morti (cheers mates!). Later on I did some projects with blues. After I finished secondary high school I carried through my obligatory national service in the Finnish Defensive Forces in 2003 which was followed by studies. I graduated to be an artisan of instrument building, string instruments as my main speciality (guitars & basses, mandolins and a few other instruments). From the bands now in existence, Pressure Points describes me the most. First of all my aim is to please myself and band mates by making interesting compositions, awaking good karma and new ideas in my co-players. Of course it's nice if both, the energy of the band and the will to constantly experiment with new things, reaches the listening audience, and I open-mindedly wish everyone to participate to our gigs in the future to come. I try to improve myself to be as versatile as possible. Playing and spending time with friends close to me leaves the worries of the world outside my mind. I don't know a better way to well-being. Music is a way of life for me and hopefully a career in some point.
