The Higher Low is a Finnish punk singer who writes songs about Bitcoin that never say the word. Thirty years of DIY punk, one guitar, and every sat he earns saved for the next album.
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quotingRami Korhonen has sung in the Finnish melodic punk band Fumble since the early nineties. One of their songs opens an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A few years ago, on long business trips in the Middle East, he picked up a guitar he found in a rented apartment and started writing songs about Bitcoin, with one rule: the songs never say the word. He calls it acoustic pleb rock. The project is The Higher Low.
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In this episode, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Rami to trace the whole road: seeing the Ramones in Helsinki at sixteen, thirty years of DIY punk, recording twelve songs in one four-hour session over a Christmas break, the Bitcoin Beats invitation that turned them into the album Node To Freedom, and opening Bitcoin conference stages with one voice and one guitar.
He explains why his songs carry more than one meaning, what the name The Higher Low really means, the campfire test every song has to pass, and why he misses the freedom-tech spirit of Bitcoin's early culture. He tells the story of Knut Svanholm jumping on the drums at Baltic Honeybadger in Riga, writing Freedom Engine in El Zonte, handing his acoustic songs to Jesperi Mommo and the band for Freedom In the Digital Age, and crowdfunding the vinyl on Geyser.
His sats from music are never spent. "One day it's going to be enough to do another album."
This episode is a one-week Fanfares exclusive. Your 21 sats go straight to Bitcoin For The Arts to fund artists. Next week it goes free on YouTube and RSS.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Seeing the Ramones at sixteen and starting Fumble. Walk Alone in 1992, the break, and the 2006 comeback. The Law & Order: SVU song. Two people and a dog: playing every show like a festival. A guitar in a rented apartment and writing LFG on the spot. Twelve songs in one four-hour session. Bitcoin Beats, Boston, and Node To Freedom. Why the songs never say Bitcoin. What a higher low really means. Finding Bitcoin in 2017 and The Bitcoin Standard in 2020. The music pyramid, the fiat pyramid, and value for value. The campfire test. One guitar, nothing to hide behind. Opening the room at Bitcoin conferences. Knut Svanholm on drums in Riga. Freedom Engine in El Zonte. Handing the songs to the band. BTChel launch and the Geyser vinyl. Saving every sat for the next album. The next five years. What a $500 to $2,000 micro-grant would unlock.
FIND THE HIGHER LOW:
Website https://www.thehigherlow.co
Fountain https://fountain.fm/album/rWSoiYiNOhMmQd4AqmOT
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rqMu9KHHUWw3TQbyaoWGq
Substack https://thehigherlow.substack.com/
X https://x.com/thehigherlow
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