finnish hardcore acts Down My Throat and St. Hood are touring Europe together:
06/02 - Moondock Warm-up Party, Recklinghausen (GER)
06/03 - Hardcore Soccer World Cup 2006, Recklinghausen (GER)
06/04 - tba, London (UK)
06/05 - tba, Glasgow (SCO)
06/07 - Le Bierstube, Tournai (BEL)
06/08 - T’ Verdriet, Zele (BEL)
06/09 - Little Devil, Tilburg (HOL)
06/10 - tba, Wolfburg (GER)
06/11 - MTC, Köln (GER)
06/12 - Wild At Heart, Berlin (GER)
06/14 - Megaclub, Katowice (POL)
finnish ambient/glitch act Musti Laiton has posted their new record "Nous Voulons voir Euro Disney" for free download: https://mustilaiton.net/nous_voulons_voir_euro_disney.htm
finnish "Neuriscan" act Callisto has confirmed that their new album "Noir" will be released on May 10 via Fullsteam Records. Tracklist:
01. Wormwood
02. Latterday Saints
03. The Fugitive
04. Backwoods
05. A Close Encounter
06. Pathos
07. Folkslave
08. Woven Hands
Listen to a preview track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/callistochaos
finnish art-rock ensemble Cleaning Women on tour in Germany:
04/26 - Indiego Glocksee, Hannover (GER)
04/27 - Freaks Friends and Players Festival, Güterbahnhof, Bremen (GER)
04/28 - Mikrokosmos, Magdeburg (GER)
04/29 - Atomino, Chemnitz (GER)
04/30 - Neustadsfest, Dresden (GER)
05/01 - Treibsand Openair, Lübeck (GER)
05/02 - Zentrale randlage, Berlin (GER)
05/03 - Kunstkeller, Fürth (GER)
05/04 - Connewitz, Leipzig (GER)
05/05 - Gladhouse, Cottbus (GER)
05/06 - Clubs-u-nite, Mensa, Greifswald (GER)
Esteemed finnish label If Society has confirmed that Echo Is Your Love's new album "Humansize" will be released on May 3, just in time for their US tour. Download two mp3s here: https://www.ifsociety.com/news.php#90
Coming up next will be a new full-length from Finns Valse Triste.
Fullhouse Records, finnish purveyors of brutal punk and metalcore, have announced the signing of Breamgod and will release their debut album on May 31. Listen to a sample track: https://www.fullhouserecords.com/fhr/mp3/022%20-%20Breamgod%20-%20No%20Second%20Chances.mp3
finnish hardcore/punk label Combat Rock Industry has posted a ton of new European tourdates, from bands such as Endstand, Bombshell Rocks, Unkind, The Phoenix Foundation, Manifesto Jukebox and more. It's too much to repost here, so go check it out: https://www.fireinsidemusic.com/ekeikat.htm
We're going to have ourselves a theme with this week's mp3 posts and that theme is folk music. I know some of you are probably rolling your eyes at the thought, but I think that learning to appreciate Nordic folk traditions is an important part of understanding what makes Scandinavian music unique. It's amazing how much of it is carried through to other genres too, both in the lyrics and the melodies.
Today's song comes to us from Värttinä, Finland's most well-known folk group. The band has existed in some form or another since 1983 and changed members and labels many times since, but has always retained the same musical vision. finnish folk is often based on the poems and songs of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic. The music can be similar to a lot of other Eastern European folk, but it's the amazing vocal harmonies that make them special and that's what I'm going to spotlight today with the a capella piece "Eerama". The song is from the group's latest album "Miero", their first for Peter Gabriel's renown Real World label. Some of you might recognize that the sound isn't too far off from Bulgarian vocal music and you'd be right, but it's the incredibly dark and twisted lyrics that separate the Finns from the rest. Just check out the words for "Synti/The sin" in which the narrator wishes her enemies to be cursed with lizard-foetuses. See what I mean? Folk music can be cool.
We're going to have ourselves a theme with this week's mp3 posts and that theme is folk music. I know some of you are probably rolling your eyes at the thought, but I think that learning to appreciate Nordic folk traditions is an important part of understanding what makes Scandinavian music unique. It's amazing how much of it is carried through to other genres too, both in the lyrics and the melodies.
Today's song comes to us from Värttinä, Finland's most well-known folk group. The band has existed in some form or another since 1983 and changed members and labels many times since, but has always retained the same musical vision. finnish folk is often based on the poems and songs of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic. The music can be similar to a lot of other Eastern European folk, but it's the amazing vocal harmonies that make them special and that's what I'm going to spotlight today with the a capella piece "Eerama". The song is from the group's latest album "Miero", their first for Peter Gabriel's renown Real World label. Some of you might recognize that the sound isn't too far off from Bulgarian vocal music and you'd be right, but it's the incredibly dark and twisted lyrics that separate the Finns from the rest. Just check out the words for "Synti/The sin" in which the narrator wishes her enemies to be cursed with lizard-foetuses. See what I mean? Folk music can be cool.
Värttinä - Eerama
finnish hip-hop artist Redrama has a new, annoying all-Flash based website: https://www.redrama.com/
The new EP "This is a great escape" from finnish rockers The Sheena Hyenas will be out in about three weeks.
finnish mp3 blog Lupatarkastaja talks to Norwegian experimental noise duo Ryfylke and gets them to create a five-track mp3 mix: https://lupatarkastaja.samizdat.info/2006/03/21/luuvitosen-vippi-12-toft-ryfylke/
I only recently heard Ryfylke for the first time when their label Roggbif posted a couple tracks a few weeks ago, but I was really really impressed. Definitely an act to look into if you're into this kind of stuff.
finnish electrofunk artist Jimi Tenor and his 10-piece big-band will perform their new score for William Klein's 1968 film "Mr Freedom" live at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London this Friday. Details: https://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/113763.html
Check out the video for "Jukolan Humppa" from finnish humppa maniacs Elakelaiset: https://www.stupido.fi/sounds/video/elakelaiset-jukolan_humppa.mov