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Heat Mobile: Heat Mobile
Heat Mobile´s debut is a brand new Puuma Records release!
A rock´n roll trio from Helsinki with powerful debut. Heat Mobile has deep influences in blues, boogie and rock'n'roll. All though Heat Mobile has strong roots, they take their noise to another level...
Half Apple: Hands That Held Up The Sky
Half Apple is young band from Turku, Finland . The band incorporates various influences including progressive rock and metal, indie, post-rock and even jazz fusion into their unique sound. But still in the centre are the songs, full of positive energy.
This surely is one of the most promising debuts in 2012 and the band is ready to take their music to live audiences so be ready...they are! More www.halfapple.net
Electric Monk: Hanging Loose
The Helsinki's hairiest rock'n'roll group Electric Monk has finally finished their second full-length album. "Hanging Loose" will be released in Finland the 28th of september by Puuma Records / Running Moose Productions.
Esa Kotilainen: Soiva Tehdas
The new phenomenal Esa Kotilainen album Soiva Tehdas (Music From a Factory) is out by Running Moose´s Presence Records label 17.8.2011. Get your copy of this amazing album!
Soundtrack of the Film Matti Pellonpää - Bohemian Eyes
Running Moose Productions / Presence Records is humbled and extremely proud to release the soundtrack album of documentary film Bohemian Eyes in March 2011. The film is produced by Finnish Broadcasting Company and directed by Janne Kuusi. Music is composed, arranged, produced by Pale Saarinen, one of the leading Finnish musicians.
Time Traveller: Chapters III & IV
We are excited to inform that the second album of Time Traveller, called Chapters III&IV will be available 27.4.2011. If you liked the first one this will knock you out. Fusion, space-power-rock and prog meet in adventurous musical trip.
Jari Rättyä: Käärmekeittoa
Jari Rättyä´s second solo album Käärmekeitto (Snake Soup) is out on Puuma Records. This roots-singer/songwriter from the Kainuu-Tibet-Texas triangle played a wonderful gig in Ravintola Allotria last friday to a full packed house If you liked the first album, you´ll love this second one.
Find More information from www.myspace.com/jarirattya and http://rattyasoolo.wordpress.com/
Rakkauden Ammattilaiset: Rakkauden Ammattilaiset + bonus track
The first album of the hard working and much loved live band Rakkauden Ammattilaiset is available in all proper record-stores as our Distribution Shop is, as well as in all Download Shops.
Hämyreggah: Hämyreggah
Combining roots, rock and reggae this group shows how to use Finnish language and make the words groove while they still have lots of meaning. The music is a delicate package of Finnish folk and traditional influences mixed with groovy rhythms.
Jeavestone: 1+1=OK
Third album of Finnish prog´n rollers carries on the musical fireworks that already started on Mind The Soup (2005) and Spices, Species And Poetry Petrol(2008) -albums. Both pop- / progheads and critics loved both albums and will surely shout hoorays with this new one, too.
Esa Kotilainen: -51°C
A brand new album “-51 C” from the keyboard-wizard, Esa Kotilainen continues the story that started in his classic 1977 "Ajatuslapsi" -album and carried on in last year´s "Turquoise Planet". Only now we´re travelling in more or less winter landscapes and atmospheres.
Kataya: Voyager
The second album of finnish folk-prog-ambient trio Kataya. While the first " Canto Obscura" discovered the musical sounds of deep finnish forests this new called "Voyager" goes straight into the outer space and follows the adventures of the mysterious being called "K".
Ärräpää Orchestra: Up To My Ears In Snow
The new album ”Up To My Ears In Snow” includes only new material. From the many friends of the group Bob Margolin, Esa Eloranta, Julie Black and Maria Hänninen have each given one song to the album. The other songs are written by the band´s secret insider Kalle Kipsoni and the rhythm guitarist Mika R. Halttunen.
Aapo Heinonen: A Daydream Between Nightmares
A very fine debut of jazz pianist Aapo Heinonen and his Quintet. Nine brand new songs written by Aapo himself takes this group straight into the first class in Finnish jazz-scene. Instrumental jazz with acoustic piano and some tasteful rhodes make a combination sometimes spiritually harmonic and soon behind the corner a handful of sparkling and youthful riffs and grooves makes you want to hear more.
Carita Holmström: My Diary of Songs
Carita Holmström is one of the finest singer/ songwriters in Finland. This new album is a long-awaited return to the very top and contains 10 new songs and one real “kitchen-live” gem from the late sixties as a bonus-track, all her own material. It´s a colourful journey in time where Carita discovers and finds fascinating worlds while visiting her diary of songs.
Pepa Päivinen: North Pipe
Vigorous. That’s the first adjective that came to mind, when I first listened to the Pepa Päivinen Quartet’s new album. After a couple of listens more defining terms started to drop like rain: imaginative, hungry, intense, free, exciting.
Esa Kotilainen: Turquoise Planet
A brand new album “Turquoise Planet” from the keyboardwizard, Esa Kotilainen continues the story bringing his ambient athmospheres to more global level. Esa´s work in Finnish music scene is well known during last four decades. He was part of Tasavallan Presidentti and Wigwam in the 70´s, played on Wigwam´s legendary Nuclear Nightclub-album and on two Wigwam´s latest albums, Titan´s Wheel and Some Several Moons.
Pax Romana: And The Dance Begins Again
Pax Romana is a Finnish progressive rock band playing delicious, straightforward and variable melodic progressive rock. If you want to put bands music into a context, bands like Focus, Pink Floyd, Camel, but also Tom Waits might come to your mind, but band is still very much of its own.
Ageness: Songs from the Liar's Lair
The fourth album from this Finnish prog legend has been a huge success in prog world among the critics as well as all the prog-heads globally. This brand new album features also a new line up with a highly experienced guitar-man Speedy Saarinen joining in. www.ageness.net www.myspace.com/ageness
Jeavestone: Mind The Soup (Re-release)
Jeavestone´s first album from 2005 as a special new edition. Prog´n roll, colourful, unique songs that opened the road for this personal group.
Micke from Sweden: Waiting For The End
And in the red corner! Proudly presenting the one man band, the tap-dancing pianoman, Mr One Punch, straight from the garden of Eden: Micke from Sweden! Micke is also known as Micke Lohse, also known as the organplayer from swedens finest band Atomic Swing. He recorded his new piano album with a handful of rat poison in the ruff ouskirts harbour area of Stavanger. Produced by Janove Ottesen from Kaizers Orchestra, recorded and mixed by Børge Fjordheim Cloroform and hoasted by the jazztrumpet of Sjur Miljeteig from The Leather Fashion, and a frequent stream of norwegian vagabond musicians coming and going.
Johanna Iivanainen: Loisto (The Collection)
Loisto – The Collection is the first collection album by singer-songwriter Johanna Iivanainen. It sums up her incredibly versatile and active career within the past ten years as a recording artist. Loisto, however, is not a traditional hit collection, even though it includes many popular songs – Loisto is more of a selection of songs which have a great importance to the artist herself, and from which one can hear Johanna Iivanainen’s presence and contribution beyond singing.
Time Traveller: Chapters I & II
Time Traveller’s debut album is a rich combination of styles, a musicaljourney to the heart of, well, time and - travelling. The main point is electric guitar but also everything else that surrounds Juhani´s magical playing and themes is something unique.
Hepa Halme: Prospector
In this magnificent album there's freedom and improvisation within Hepa's framework of, yes indeed, "attic jazz". But there's also form. These are songs. Introspective and delicate textures build up upon each other continuously as the compositions grow into entities in their own right. The album draws to a close by an excerpt of nightly bird song, a recorded fragment of the audio landscape where this music comes from. As Shakespeare could have put it: "If attic be the food of jazz, stay on".
Kataya: Canto Obscura
Kataya is a three-member folk-prog-ambient-group from Finland; Matti Kervinen, Teijo Tikkanen and Sami Sarhamaa playing most of the instruments, composing, arranging, recording and mixing together. The inspiration for this album comes from the deep wild forests of Finland. Being amongst the last pure and clean, untouched spots of nature on our planet, the Forest is and has always been a church and sanctuary for us Finns.
Jeavestone: Spices, Species & Poetry Petrol
Prog’n Roll! That’s how the the guys in Jeavestone define their music. And indeed, it would not make‘em justice to cram this highly imaginative blend of musical styles into a more conventional and restrictive category. By combining the unpredictable with the unlikely, Jeavestone has created a richly idiosyncratic alchemy of energy and beauty. This bunch is not afraid to experiment and juxtapose... as the album is a big hug between brazil-jazz, folk and stoner rock along with heavy-duty guitar riffs and the occasional ethereal flute solo.
Kurkirku: The Mesh
Kurkirku plays free organic jazz with world / experimental / lounge influences. The groups´ unique musical mix can be described as a type of nordic sound with resemblance to fresh jazz and crossover artists risen here and there in Scandinavia within a few years. Maybe some influences come from the period when lead singer and the other composer Mirella Pendolin lived in Norway and was active making music and performing there. If you leave out boundaries or thick genre definitions, The Mesh is a colourful combination, temporarily chaotic but also with a twinkle in its´ eye; smooth, shamanistic and a spiritual meltingpot of music.
Corey & Maple: Home In The Universe
The Corey & Maple second album widens the colours of genres; prog, jazz, lounge, electronica and spacey soundscapes mix together in this bubbling but harmonic soup. As much as the songs, the amazing cover art of Gary Barlowski also reflects the athmospheric feel on this album.The boiling includes lounge, prog-rock, jazz, rock and electronica. This might sound weird but the combination is suprisingly harmonious. You can no way claim it to be boring, because every song has its´own style and feeling.
Echosystem: Madaga
Echosystem is a 7-member Orchestra from Helsinki, playing funky tunes spiced up with sunny Brazilian rhythms. In a fresh way, they combine the Brazilian tradition with jazz, funk and contemporary club music producing a unique sound that varies from chic latinjazz to hectic breakbeat. The band´s catchy groove is made up of sweet vocals accompanied by an improvi-sing rhythm section with colourful fl ute and saxophone solos as the icing on the cake. Echosystem´s skilful, energetic and charismatic musicians have played together since 2001.
Tasavallan Presidentti: Six Complete
A new studio album of Finnish jazz-rock / progressive-rock legend Tasavallan Presidentti was released on 8th of november 2006. Titled “Six Complete”, the album includes nine songs written by Frank Robson and Jukka Tolonen. Seven of those are new compositions and two are new versions of old songs. "Last Night" is an updated vocal version of a song originally released on Jukka Tolonen´s first solo album; "Dance" on the other hand is a new interpretation of one of Tasavallan Presidentti´s Lambert Land -album songs.
Six Complete is a first studio release since groups “Milky Way Mouses” (1974).
Orrenmaa Band: Make My Day
Featuring Billy Cobham and Tower Of Power Horns
This is the third album of finnish fusion- / jazz-guitarist Tuomo “Tuppu” Orrenmaa and the first one in music history that the legendary drummer Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra etc.) and the world famous "Tower Of Power" Horns from San Francisco play together on the same album. Make My Day is also the last album that widely known and loved finnish composer / bass-player "Pekka Pohjola" (Wigwam etc.) played on.
Pax Romana: Trace Of Light
Pax Romana´s first album from 2005 re-started the engines of this Finnish progressive rock-group that already excisted in the 70´ies. Melodic, northern prog that was very well received by prog-sites and -listeners.
www.paxromana.fi www.myspace.com/paxromanafinland
