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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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Gifts or Creatures, The Great Park

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Gifts or Creatures has been on the top of my playlist for the past week. Their sophomore release, Yesteryear Western Darkness, came out on last week on Earthwork Music. This husband and wife duo of Brandon and Bethany Foote have created a great americana album. I should pay even more and more attention to the folk scene in Michigan, because this is another winner and regular readers already know how much I adore bands/artists like Chris Bathgate, Frontier Ruckus, Small Houses, Strawberry Heritage, Nathan K etc. Speaking of Strawberry Heritage, the new Gifts Or Creatures music video Relicts & Ghosts was directed by Strawberry Heritage’s John Hanson. The song itself remind me a bit of Wilco´(the good kind of Wilco) and it goes like this.

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Gifts Or Creatures Website
Gifts Or Creatures at Facebook

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The Great Park has a new EP We Love To Get Lost And We Love To Get Found out on Woodland Recordings. The man behind The Great Park is an English folk singer-songwriter Stephen Burch who currently lives in Germany. He has released a lot of good folk releases during the last 5 years or so. I picked the new EP yesterday and I’m liking it a lot. This is the opening song, Deserter.

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The Great Park at Bandcamp
The Great Park at Facebook

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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

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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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