Fernando – White Trees (video)

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Fernando Viciconte is currently on a European tour and will be the opening act on Richmond Fontaine’s Finnish dates this week. That’s a mighty good reason to post this excellent new music video White Trees. It’s an outtake from his latest album Leave the Radio On that is out now on Decor / Fluff & Gravy.

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Fernando Website

And do not miss these concerts. Fernando is currently touring the country with one of the best bands of the past 15 years.

Richmond Fontaine & Fernando Finland Tour:

April 5th Korjaamo, Helsinki
April 6th Telakka, Tampere
April 7th Gong, Turku

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Kyp Harness – Stoplight Moon

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Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kyp Harness is widely respected among his peers, but way too unknown at least on this corner of the world where yours truly resides. Unfortunately his song vault isn’t my expertise either, because I’ve only been aware of him for a few years and I’m only familiar with the albums The Wrong Way and Can a Poor Man Get A Fair Trial? The latter one has a song that I really love called The Old Crone In The Forest. It’s a wonderful song that reminds me of the late great Townes Van Zandt with whom Kyp has also shared a stage.

Kyp Harness just released his new album Stoplight Moon and I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. It ranges from unashamedly romantic slices of melodic pop heaven all the way to a country song of the hurtin’ kind. My own favourite is this album opener All I Need that is a great pop song. It also reminds me a bit of The Go-Betweens, which is never a bad thing.

Kyp Harness – All I Need (at soundcloud)

Kyp Harness Website

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Steven James Adams – Ideas (video)

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Back after a small Easter break. Watching hockey playoffs will take a lot of the spare time during the coming weeks, but I do have plans to write a lot of blog posts during this final year. Incredible amount of great releases have just been released or will be released during April. I need a 2nd job to buy everything I want and an extra month write about them all. So I can’t feature everything, but I try to write about the ones I love the most.

Let’s kickstart this with a fairly new Steven James Adams video Ideas that I just watched several times. His new album Old Magick has been out for almost a month on the great Fortuna POP! label, but I still haven’t heard it. So this is also a reminder to myself. This is something that I need to listen. Steven is a a great British songwriter and someone that I’ve listened to for over 10 years I think. The Broken Family Band was a big fave during the mid- and late 00s. After that it was Singing Adams and now Steven James Adams. Different names, same brilliance. I hope I manage to write more about this when I’ve heard the whole thing. At least Ideas and the earlier single Togetherness are both wonderful. This is Ideas.

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Steven James Adams Website

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Onoila – Yötulet EP

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A fairly new Turku-based band Onoila was a bit of a surprise entry to my Finnish albums of the year 2015 list. It really charmed me during the last few months of the year. A couple of days ago they released their new excellent Yötulet EP. Pauli Laasonen is a very good new songwriter who is getting better all the time. He also has his back covered, because there’s cats, tigers and other indie heroes playing in the band. I like the whole thing, but I’m especially fond of this title track Yötulet that you can hear below.

Onoila at Facebook

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