Interested music from Finland?

[Mika K]

For all the jazz and prog lovers out there:

http://musicfinland.fi/en/news/artic...sed-by-svart-r

Received the first albums lately and these are really something special..

[Jimbo]

Lots there to consider Mika. Would appreciate any strong recommendations from that lot as I like 70,s jazz especially as it's all analogue!

Just bought another bike. Hope you don't mind me pop it on this post. As I know your a keen cyclist thought you might find it interesting. Great bike for summer riding in Finland?

Check out this video!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sJg05BJXw

[Mika K]

Hmm, that kind of bikes have been in our radar already for years partially due to gravel grinding popularity. I also ditched my road bike some years ago to have my custome Konga which can take 40mm tires for similar riding seen at the vid. Nice bike thou and very interesting option for all other "one bike to rule them all" thoughts out there

I ordered the whole Jazz Liisa box as those are all unreleased material and have some mighty interesting stuff there. One related album I can highly rcommend is the Unisono Lp recently also reissued by Svart http://svartrecords.com/shoppe/svart...nisono-lp.html. Other might be Soulset Edward Vesala Jazz Band http://svartrecords.com/shoppe/rock-...laista-lp.html.

I think you can also find these at Spotify etc for quick preview as well as the released Jazz Liisa LPs..

[Mika K]

Btw I'm really looking for one debut album (or actually three of them) from artist Mikko Joensuu that will be released by Svart Records soon. Please check it out..



Mikko Joensuu is the kind of singer-songwriter who’l easily stand out from the crowd. His debut album ”Amen 1” taps into the American folk music tradition, and it is all about deep and healing songs which at times give the listener an impression of spending time in quiet, intimate surroundings with people like Townes Van Zandt, Lee Hazlewood or Leonard Cohen. Arrangements are raw but beautiful: mostly just the piano and guitar accompany Mikko’s voice, with pedal steel guitars and soothing string sections paying a visit every now and then.

Mikko Joensuu’s grand solo debut is three albums long, and with part 2 appearing in late 2016 and part 3 next spring, it forms the Amen Trilogy. Joensuu, who’s spent some years in the proverbial wilderness after the split of his earlier combo Joensuu 1685, comments on the creation process of his magnum opus:

“In the summer of 2012 I built a studio in a small cabin by a lake in northern Finland. I spent a month staring towards the lake, writing and recording. During that time I realized what I had was actually three different albums, all stemming from the same state of mind, expressing various sides to the same story. From the three, Amen 1 is perhaps the most fragile. It’s an effort to find balance between great sadness and beauty, and to understand the very strange state when one’s mind is close to collapse and yet at the same time more alive than ever."

https://soundcloud.com/svart-records...-closer-my-god

[barry-potter]

can't believe no one has mentioned 'deep turtle'.

[Mika K]

During my summer vacation saw legendary band Circle live at Qstock festival. They were really awesome and also their warmup Death Hawks was good. Nice finnish psychedelic-progressive rock!

Now I'm listening Talvikuningas (=Winterking in english) by CMX, which is one of the big finnish rock bands. The album is concept album and an epic science fiction story taking place in the 25th century. See more information from wiki..



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talvikuningas