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Flavour of the Month 4.10.2013: Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters & Salaliitto

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A new month and a new Flavour of the Month. This friday at Pikku-Torre. See you there.

Here’s the Finnish lesson of the month:

Lokakuun Flavour Of The Month-klubi järjestetään perjantaina 4.10. paikallisin voimin. Esiintymässä tuolloin ovat kovaa kuhinaa jo ennen levyjulkaisuja aiheuttanut Salaliitto sekä kesällä uuden albumin julkaissut Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters.

Salaliiton taustalla on Penniless-yhtyeestäkin tuttu Ossi Alisaari, joka pääsee uuden bändinsä kanssa toteuttamaan itseään paitsi suomeksi, myös musiikillisesti vähemmän indiehenkisiä ja enemmän amerikantuoksuisia ja jopa progeisampia kuvioita. Bändin muutkin soittajat ovat jo monissa liemissä marinoituja kokeneita kettuja, joten bändin pelkillä keikoillaan aikaansaama hypenpoikanen ei ole ihme.

Turkulaisessa Goodbye Monstersissa aikanaan kannuksensa hankkinut Matti Jasu on puolestaan ehtinyt jo toiseen albumiinsa. Yhä pidemmälle indiepop-lähtökohdistaan americanaan ja Dylan/Neil Young-osastolle kaivautunut Jasu ja yhtyeensä The Close Encounters soittanevat näytteitä tuolta Pin on the Map-levyltä ja pitkiä kitaramyrskyjamituksia lienee myös luvassa.

Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters
Salaliitto
+ Flavour Of The Month DJ team
pe 4.10. klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
liput 4€

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Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace release a new single Skater

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Some new Finnish country sounds. Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace are getting ready to release their new album Homegrown Soul on 11th of October. The first single Skater surfaced last week. Will Van Horn from the great Robert Ellis Band features on the track on pedal steel.

The first album Rivertown wasn’t consistently brilliant, but had several mighty fine moments. I’m eager to hear Homegrown Soul and see how they’ve progressed. I expect great things. You can listen to the new single Skater below and download it for free on their Soundcloud.

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Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace Website

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Penniless – Rows Of Houses

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Huge news! New Penniless album Rows Of Houses came out last week on A West Side Fabrication. It’s fantastic, brilliant and the best Finnish album of the year.. Well to be honest, I haven’t heard it yet. I went to the local record shop yesterday, but unfortunately the package that had the new Penniless in it was late and therefore I wasn’t able to buy a copy. The band is one of my all-time favourites and I’m extremely confident that the new album is once again going to be amazing. But maybe I should do the highest of praises on a later date. When I’ve actually listened to the album.

Penniless Website

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Soliti News: Gim Kordon & The New Tigers

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Soliti is one of the finest indie labels in the country and they’ve been busy lately. Their new signing is wittily named Gim Kordon and it’s impossible not to like them. Finnish DIY punk rock meets 90s US indie rock. Where You Been at the back, punk vocals on the front. Sounds so good to me and takes me back to the days when things like Dinosaur Jr, Smudge and Sebadoh reshaped my heart. Debut album due out in 2014, but as a taste Soliti offers an early demo version of a song called Ei oo helppoo.

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Gim Kordon Website

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The second The New Tigers album The Badger came out last week and it’s another good one. I think Valtteri’s pop sensibility and the wall of sound are in good balance this time around. If you can write a great pop song with the loveliest melody, why destroy it with useless crap. Sometimes in the past they’ve been guilty of that. This time pretty much everything works. For example Secondary City is such a magnificent song where The New Tigers get closer to Teenage Fanclub-ish moods in the chorus. Well done.. and worth all the hype. This one is Quicksilver from the new album.

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The New Tigers Website

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