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Marja Mattlar: Kuu
It´s been five years since the last Marja Mattlar´s studioalbum Polku-was released. Kuu is again new step in Marja Mattlar´s wide and unique catalogue. The intimate and sometimes pure interpretations on the album create a powerful feeling of presence and the lyrics get diverse and fascinating dimensions and meanings.
www.marjamattlar.net/
Lauri "Arno" Ankerman: Vantaanjoen Suiston Juurimusiikkia
Lauri "Arno" Ankerman, the man and his guitar is a living proof that you don´t have to travel to Missisippi-river to find the essence of blues. To live by the Vantaa-river and just have the right attitude is enough. Unique debut!
www.lauriankerman.wordpress.com
Kapa Montonen and The Bluesment Brothers: Routes To Roots
Great songs grooving with dynamic horns-section and dazzling guitar playing by Kapa Montonen. If you´re into the musical styles of Clapton´s 461 Ocean Boulevard -era or Rick Derringer´s back-catalogue this debut´s for you.
www.kapamontonen.com
Greedy Pig: Boogiedriller
This CD is fueled by the hard driving numbers like ‘Ain’t No Place’ and ‘Rock`n`Roll Car’, having a traditional GP rock’n roll sound while ballad like ‘High Wide and Handsome’ and boogie-rock ‘Second Hand Blues’ add their rootsy southern flavor to the soup. Greedy Pig is definitely back in business! Keep on Boogie Drilling!
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Transkaakko: Tuorla
The fifth Transkaakko album "Tuorla" is out on Running Moose Distribution, Moose´s Nest web-shop and also as Download-version 11.2.2012! Transkaakko, known also as being part of great Balkan fever -compilation that was released last fall, goes now straight to space. Tuorla is space-folk, beautiful and ambitious work!
Lemuria: Sinisen Planeetan Tarinoita
Lemuria's debut album "Sinisen Planeetan Tarinoita" is a strong mixture of folk-rock and with different kind of musical styles. The soup is filled with great songwriting, lyrics and high energy playing. You can even hear influences of early Mikko Alatalo's songs, which in this context is not a bad thing at all.
Wellu Rowaltz: Rowaltz
The second album of this talented singer/ songwriter and popular live-performed really shows the many musical sides he easily can put together and still personally sound himself. Rock, pop, dance, funk, ballads, even progressive rock and all this mixed together: 100 % ROWALTZ!!
Erik Lindström Awardees: Eric´s Tunes
Finnish first class jazz-release, Eric´s Tunes out in Moose´s Nest Distribution shop and also in Download-shops!
A very fine tribute to Finland Jazz´s Grand Old Man, Erik Lindsröm is available: Erik Lindström Awardees: Eric´s Tunes.
Paidarion: Behind The Curtains
The second album of finnish prog-minstrels is out and available . The album includes 10 new songs produced by Kimmo Pörsti and the band. Among the high class guests is Michael Manring, the american bass-virtuoso who just visited Helsinki in Savoy Theatre. www.paidarion.com
Esa Niiva ENB: Past & Present
Esa Niiva - a famous Finnish sax player, known from many well known Finnish groups like Leningrad Cowboys etc, debuts on his Past & Present -album. A very delicious combination of groove/jazz/funk -music. Give it a try, definitely worth listening.
Electric Lady: Black Moon
The Electric Lady´s long awaited debut album Black Moon is out in all good records-stores and download shops and of course in Moose´s Distribution Shop. Get your copy. More www.the-electriclady.net
Greenrose Fair: Neverending Journey
Greenrose Faire´s debut-album Neverending Story is out in Running Moose Distribution.
The band plays jaunty medieval-influenced folk rock, vibrating with the influence from renaissance and celtic music. The songs of the Finnish sextet carry their listener to a world of its own with solemn forests, rowdy taverns and glorious battles.
Lubo-Mir: Nine Levels
LUBO-MIR aka Markku Jylhä is a Finnish electronic music producer. His sound is a mixture of nostalgia, mystics and future combined with a modern and original way of production that drifts naturally between hip/triphop, downtempo and idm areas, flavored with experimental & psychedelic vibe. http://fi-fi.facebook.com/lubomiruniverse
Ancient Bear Cult: Lullamoinen
Check the second album of the finnish leading "pagan-folk" group Ancient Bear Cult. This interesting and album "Lullamoinen" and is available in 7th of September, 2011.
Mist Season: Reflection
Reflections is the third album by Mist Season, a band from Hämeenlinna , Finland. It combines prog with fusion, full of melodic and beautiful themes Among the high-lights is a new version of Marianne Nyman´s classic "Pan", a Maru&Mikael song from the seventies, as well as well as Roine Stolts "Lobsterland´s Groove".
www.mistseason.com
Ozone Player & Matt Howarth: Long-Range Influece
Long-Range Influence is a sci-fi, space-rock, ambient- and prog-package masterminded by Otso Pakarinen. The CD-album includes also a comic, created by Matt Howarth.
www.ozoneplayer.com www.matthowarth.com
Eero Koivistoinen: Minor Solutions (DVD)
The new retrospective DVD of Finnish Jazz "grand-old-man" Eero Koivistoinen is available on Running Moose Distribution List. Minor Solutions is a 3 hour 20 minute package, a thrilling musical and visual journey
into Eero Koivistoinen`s awesome career that has lasted over 4 decades and still continues strong.
It´s an exciting and first retrospective look at Finnish jazz starting from sixties up to this date on DVD.
Includes 5.1. Sound. Read more information for a Finnish description of the DVD. A true Classic!!
Lauri Timosen: Lähikuvassa Matti Pellonpää
Matti Pellonpään syntymästä tulee kuluneeksi 60 vuotta 28.3.2011. Juhlavuoden kunniaksi on Lauri Timosen Lähikuvassa Matti Pellonpää –teoksesta nyt ilmestynyt uusi painos.
Moonwagon: Night Dust
We are again very pleased to announce the the first album of Finnish West Coast group Moonwagon will be released worldwide as a very nice digipack-cover CD and also Downloadable -version 2.3.2011. Moonwagon plays mostly instrumental prog-rock combining freshly influences from kraut-, space and hard-rock.
More more information, read www.myspace.com/moonwagonfin
Björn Krause: Lunch
Björn Krause's "Lunch" is in many ways an interesting album. One of the very few Finnish rock records sung in Swedish and the first album where Jukka Gustavson and Matts Hulden are playing together after the Wigwam times.
Björn Krause's Luch är på många sätt en intressant skiva. En av de få finska rockskivor med lyrik på svenska, men också den förstä skivan där orgel legenden Jukka Gustavson och basisten Mats Huldén spelar tillsammans efter Wigwam eran.
Anita De Coteau: Live At Sabor A Fado
This album has been recorded in Madeira at "Sabor a Fado" tavern with the live audience! Like Anita herself puts it: "Fado is about life, sometimes life is rough, sometimes gentle. All these songs come from the heart and soul of the musicians. To sing and play Fado you must experience life."
Marja Mattlar: Säv & san Marja Mattlar Notebook
A long awaited dream has come true, The Notebook Säv & san Marja Mattlar. Marja chose the songs that are mostly asked during the years and the ones that have been most popular on live performances. And some of them just because Marja felt that they belong to this note compilation.
Marja Mattlar: Varhaisten Parhaita - Early Works
Varhaisten Parhaita -Early Works is a very special collection and from singer/ songwriter Marja Mattlar. The album collection includes both favourites, rarities and mostly songs which have not been available before on CD.
Ancient Bear Cult: Sounds From The Past
Ancient Bear Cult is a Finnish folk music band that draws its inspiration from prehistoric and early medieval soundscapes. All of the instruments used by the band have a history of hundreds of years, so it is possible that similar bands have existed in the distant past.
BB Lindström: Lil´ Red Robin Hood
Twisted mixed-up rock´n roll in a breaking glass...Lo-fi alternative singer-songwriting. The recordings were made in BB:s home and in famous Seawolf Studios at Suomenlinna. Among the guest musicians are Jukka Orma, Ari Kala, Sam Huber, Måsse Kullman, Lauri Järvilehto, Mitja Siren and a 12-member childrens choir from Suomenlinna´s primary school.
Pekka Saarikorpi: Water Music
Percussionist Pekka Saarikoski's excellent and intriguing Water Music - an album best described as a composing drummer’s debut. It is deep in personal flavour – strongly percussive but simultaneously lyrical and minimalistically melodic.
Enver Izmaylov: The Guitar Legend of Crimea (DVD)
Enver Izmaylov is a prominent Ukrainian folk and jazz musician (guitarist). Born into a tatar family previously deported from Crimea (Ukraine), Izmaylov returned to Ukraine in 1989. Izmaylov does not pluck the strings, but uses jazz tapping - an original technique of electric guitar playing when a musician plays with both hands on the neck by tapping on the strings with his fingertips, as if it was a keyboard.
Total time approx 120 min
Transkaakko: Kulo
Transkaakko is a Finnish group that experiments with Balkan rhythms, folk styles and rock music. On their fourth album, Kulo (‘Fire´ or ‘Dead Ground That Is Uncovered in the Spring after the Snow Is Gone’), Transkaakko moves slightly towards folk psychedelia and progressive rock. Instead of just reviving these genres or other music traditions, the band looks for the spirit of originality and
excitement.
Loisa: Latitudes - Music For Still Pictures And Relaxation
Musician, singer and songwriter Jari Loisa is known for his many activities in the Finnish music scene. Nowadays Loisa is also a photographer and wants to “make music visible” through his photography. These picturesque, ambient influenced tunes reflect beautifully the world of Loisa’s photographs, but can also be enjoyed as individual pieces of music.
Marja Mattlar: Lumi
The second album Lumi ('snow') was recorded in Helsinki, Finland, with top Finnish musicians. Lumi is arranged and produced by Pekka Pohjola, the famous Finnish rock/jazz musician and composer who, among others, has composed a symphony and an opera. The backing musicians on Lumi include members of Pekka's band, a string quartet, and kantele player Anu Itäpelto. The sound of the album is for the most part acoustic with the string quartet pieces recorded live in the studio.
Marja Mattlar: Pariisi Vuorenkylä
Pariisi–Vuorenkylä ('Paris–Vuorenkylä') was recorded in Paris under the guidance of producers/musicians Gabriel Yacoub and Patrice Clementin. The album's title points to opposite ends of the musical connection which links them together: Gabriel's home metropolis Paris and Marja's home Vuorenkylä, a tiny village surrounded by lakes and forests, where Marja lives as a sheepfarmer.
Marja Mattlar: Polku
Marja's fifth studio album Polku ('path') was released in February 2007. This time the arrangements and production are made by Ilmari Issakainen and Tyko Saarikko, two members of the Finnish folk band Tenhi. The basis for producing and recording Polku was Marja's voice and acoustic guitar, the setting in which her songs are born.
Marja Mattlar: Tuli
The fourth studio album Tuli ('fire'), released in 2003, was recorded in Finland with Finnish musicians. Tuli is arranged and produced by Yari, a singer-songwriter and former rock musician who has later composed film and theatre music. Yari has dramatized the songs with the help of a string quartet, kantele, guitars and keyboards. The last song Koiranelämää is performed by Marja and Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus together.
Marja Mattlar: Vesi
The third studio album Vesi ('water') was recorded mainly in Sweden and France with French, Swedish and Finnish musicians. The arrangements and production are made by Gabriel Yacoub and Jaakko Viitala, a Finnish-born musician who now lives in Sweden. Vesi is a very intimate album, concentrated on Marja's voice and rich acoustic instrumentation.
Marja Mattlar: Vuorenkylässä
n February 2008 Marja released her second live CD Vuorenkylässä ('In Vuorenkylä'), which contains a concert that she performed together with kantele player Eveliina Kontio. The concert was held in Marja's home's 150-year-old main room in July 2007. Some listeners have especially taken to the stripped-down soundscape of Marja's concerts, where she performs alone with her guitar or with one accompanist. Vuorenkylässä responds to these listeners' wishes and also documents a performance of this duo that has already performed for a decade.
Tainatar: Hämärän Juhlat
Tainatar was born when Pekka Pitkäkoski and Antti Polameri got together in 2001 and decided to start making music. Since then, the group has mixed together elements from progressive-rock to world-, folk-, jazz- and art-rock music. But most importantly, they’ve made songs to remember. The lyrics are based on traditional story-telling, the kind of narration where time and mysteries mix together with everyday life.
Tasavallan Presidentti: Six + Live! (DVD)
The first DVD of Finnish jazz-rock/prog legend Tasavallan Presidentti was released in November 2007. The package includes 80 minutes of powerful live-footage from groups last Six Complete-tour and 40 minutes of fresh interviews as well as some rare archive material from BBC and Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Total duration approx. 120 minutes.
Tammikuinen Tammela
The Finnish progressive group Uzva´s first ” Tammela In January” –album is available again and distributed by Presence Records. Made in 2000 the Tammela was a landmark in the Finnish new prog-scene and has since been kind of a ”hard-to-find” item, as the first print sold out almost immediately.
Veljeni Valas: Puita, Sananjalkoja Ja Kanervaa
Veljeni valas is a Finnish trio, which strongly visual and cinematic music combines the spontaneity of free jazz and expressionistic dimensions of the Nordic melodies and harmonies to the ethnic colours and rhythms. Based on improvisation Veljeni Valas has been creating their sound as a result of the collective forging.
Veljeni Valas: Veljeni Valas
Veljeni Valas is a Finnish trio, which strongly visual and cinematic music combines the spontaneity of free jazz and expressionistic dimensions of the Nordic melodies and harmonies to the ethnic colours and rhythms. Based on improvisation Veljeni Valas has been creating their sound as a result of the collective forging.
Markus Jakola: Moonlight Blues
Markus Jakola is Finnish arctic blues maestro from Kemijärvi with the unique, personal and tasteful style. He has released his debut album Moonlight Blues. It’s a strong blues-rooted album, but creates extensive and colorful scale for the listener than a typical “wired-blues” album.
Positive Wave: Positive Wave
Positive Wave is a Finnish progressive rock band that brings together musical influences from diverse fields: Finnish forests and mystic soundscapes, progressive folk rock tradition, psychedelic experimentation of the 1970s as well as rhythmic groove with
flavors from world music and jazz. The group navigates these various themes and elements in a playful way with the support of a female vocalist Susan Karttunen’s penetrating, wide ranging and tone-rich voice.
