Mauri Antero Numminen – Uppå Källarbac

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Mauri Antero Numminen (born 12 March 1940, Somero) is one of the best-known Finnish artists, who has worked in several different fields of music and culture.
In the 1960s M.A. Numminen was known particularly as an avantgarde/underground artist, stirring controversy with such songs as
Nuoren aviomiehen on syytä muistaa (”What a young husband should remember”; the lyrics of the song were taken directly from a guide to newly married couples, and included advice on foreplay) and Naiseni kanssa eduskuntatalon puistossa (”With my woman at the parliament house’s park”). Additionally, M.A. Numminen has been one of the unsung pioneers of Finnish electronic music, known for his collaborations with the composer and inventor Erkki Kurenniemi who built for Numminen a “singing machine” with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late 60s the electronic instrument Sähkökvartetti (”Electric Quartet”), the performance of which wreaked havoc in a youth festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sähkökvartetti can be heard on Numminen’s track ‘Kaukana väijyy ystäviä’ (1968).