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The album THE INNERMOST JOURNEY TO YOUR OUTERMOST MIND will be released on limited white vinyl. Sami Yaffa has had a long and unique career as a musician. He played at the tender age of 16 on the Finnish punk legends Pelle Miljoona Oy's legendary album Moottoritie On Kuuma. As an original member of the band Hanoi Rocks (1980-85) he recorded 5 albums with the band and toured the world extensively until the tragic events that ended the flight of the pioneering band. Hanoi Rocks became a major influence on many bands that later became huge like the Guns N'Roses and Pearl Jam. Yaffa's career continued after the break-up of Hanoi and ended up playing with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, the legendary New York Dolls, the Swedish RnR machine The Hellacopters and many more artists. Sami began playing with the Hanoi Rocks lead singer Michael Monroe again in 2010, the collaboration with Michael continues to this day. But now it's time to put out an album under his own name. InchThe idea for the solo album started to take shape a few years back. I had written music for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe Band, but a lot of the songs and ideas were starting to sound more like me than the other bands.Inch What kind of music does Yaffa then under his own name? Versatile. InchI've always loved the music of the bands like The Clash and The Rolling Stones. They can play country, funk, reggae and rock'n'roll, and still sound like themselves. I wanted the same kind of versatility for my own album. Inch The album has influences on a fairly wide scale, but it hardly surprises those who have followed Yaffa's career in addition to his own music career, he has been seen getting to know the musical cultures of different parts of the world as a host of the Sami Yaffa Soundtracker TV series. InchHowever, the beating heart of the album is in rock'n'roll and punk, I don't shy away from t
