Astrid Swan – Four Months To Kill

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Astrid Swan just released a new single Four Months To Kill. It is an outtake from her forthcoming album Astrid4, due out october 25th on Soliti Music. “A minimalist dogmatic album of piano, horns and drums” says the biography about the new album. Maybe I wouldn’t describe my favourite kind of music with that sentence. At least I wouldn’t have before I heard Astrid4. This album is very impressive and definitely my favourite Astrid Swan album. This is the new single Four Months to Kill.

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Astrid Swan Website

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Swaying Wires signs a record deal

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Some great news. Excellent Finnish band Swaying Wires have signed a record deal with UK-based Battle Worldwide Recordings. They are also playing a showcase concert in London on November 9th. I look forward to some new Swaying Wires songs. The first demos almost two years ago were already pretty amazing and I’m quite sure they have gotten even better since those days. This is Bluebird.

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Swaying Wires Website
Battle Worldwide Recordings Website

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Flavour of the Month 15 Years! 13.9.2013

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Maybe a bit too many posts about the Small Houses and Ochre Room tour, but this needs an own blog entry. Flavour of the Month’s 15th anniversary takes place this friday at Pikku-Torre, Turku. 15 years is a long run and a cause for a big celebration. Congratulations Mikko & Jyrki! This will be a special evening. American singer-songwriter Small Houses and Finnish folk rock group Ochre Room will share the stage. Yours truly will be spinning some good records. I hope to see you there. Here’s the press release, if you are able to master the mysteries of the Finnish language.

SMALL HOUSES (US) TÄHDITTÄÄ FLAVOUR OF THE MONTHIN 15-VUOTISJUHLAA

Turun indieskenen ikihonkainstituutio Flavour Of The Month-klubi täyttää 15 vuotta. Tämän kunniaksi klubi saa vieraan Yhdysvaltain Philadelphiasta, kun michiganilaislähtöinen Jeremy Quentin, alias Small Houses nousee Pikku-Torren lavalle perjantaina 13.9. Vakuuttavan indie/folk-artistin ensimmäinen Euroopan kiertue tuo miehen Turun lisäksi Helsinkiin, Tampereelle ja Raumalle. Amerikan mantereella ahkerasti kiertäneeltä laulaja-lauluntekijältä on lupa odottaa raukeansuloista tunnelmaa ja mitä autenttisinta Americanaa.

Small Housesin lämppärinä Suomen kiertueella toimii hieno tamperelaisyhtye Ochre Room, joka ihastutti viime vuonna upealla Evening Coming In-albumillaan ja vielä upeammilla keikoillaan. Bändiä ja sen laulajaa Lauri Myllymäkeä on syytä suositella ainakin kaikille Suomen Ryan Adams-faneille, sen verran mukavasti Myllymäen äänen väri laveeraa samoilla taajuuksilla.

Ketterän teini-iän saavuttanut Flavour Of The Month ottaa, vihdoin ja viimein, syntymäpäiviensä kunniaksi haltuun myös sosiaalisen median! Klubin verkkokoti löytyy nykyään osoitteessa www.facebook.com/flavourotm

lyhyesti:
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH 15 v!
Small Houses (USA)
Ochre Room
+ Flavour Of The Month DJ team

pe 13.9. 2013, klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
liput: 5€
www.facebook.com/flavourotm
www.smallhousessing.com
www.ochreroom.com
www.pikkutorre.fi

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Ochre Room release a new single & music video

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Ochre Room is pretty much the finest Finnish folk rock band. During the spring and summer of 2013 they have been working on their second full-lenght album. The first outtake from the forthcoming album was released by Lumpeela Julkaisut on September 10th, just before their Finland tour with American troubadour Small Houses (more information about the tour in here). You can find this brand new single Garbage Trucks Are on the Move from digital retailers such as iTunes. Filmmaker Sami Pöyry also directed this one shot music video for the song.

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Besides the tour with Small Houses, Ochre Room also has another exciting tour date coming up. They will play at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany on September 28th.

Ochre Room Website
Lumpeela Julkaisut Website

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