Hannu has been played on NTS in shows including PDA w/ Mischa Mafia, Ms. Carriestacks & Crackstevens, featured first on 14 February 2013. Songs played include It's Alright (Hannu's Full Vocal Mix).

Hannu Karjalainen lives in Helsinki, Finland. His surname is unpronouncable to non Finno-ugric language speakers so prefers to simply be known as Hannu. His musical background includes a free-grindcore band Abyss at the age of 11 plus lots of teenage experiments with four-track recorders and synthesizers.

His source of inspiration is nature, landscape, weather, light, places, friends.. etc. His music captures a mood or a feeling of a place, to take the listener somewhere for a moment. The album is a very personal statement and it is mostly recorded and produced at home in Helsinki but some of the songs utilize sounds culled from four-track recordings he made as a teenager in his home town in Northern Finland.

This debut album is being mastered by Sami aka ES who runs the Finnish Fonal label .