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Flavour of the Month – Mikael H & The Siberians, Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters

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Flavour of the Month is once again around the corner and will take place at Pikku-Torre, Turku next friday 02.12.2011. Two wonderful bands Mikael H & The Siberians and Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters will share the stage. Really looking forward to this. More details in the finnish press release below:

LAULUNTEKIJÖITÄ YHTYEINEEN JOULUKUUN FLAVOUR OF THE MONTHISSA

Joulukuun Flavour Of The Month-klubilla perjantaina 2.12. on tarjolla helsinkiläistä ja turkulaista laulaja-lauluntekijäosaamista.

Folk-mestari Mikael Hakkarainen ja yhtyeensä The Siberians ovat juuri julkaisemassa kolmatta albumiaan The President of Venice Beach Helmi Levyjen kautta. Yhtyeen debyytti Sounds like Siberia julkaistiin vuonna 2004 ja kakkoslevy Back from Serbia vuonna 2006. Parin vuoden tauon aikana Hakkarainen on soittanut mm. John McGregorin kanssa Kasparissa sekä Astrid Swanin, etelä-afrikkalaisen Guy Collinsin sekä australialaisen Gosia Winterin yhtyeissä.

Turkulainen Matti Jasu puolestaan saatetaan muistaa kaksi albumia 22-Pistepirkon Bone Voyage-merkille levyttäneestä Goodnight Monstersista. Jasun uusia tekemisiä kuullaan nyt nimen Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters alla.

tiedot lyhyesti:
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH ESITTÄÄ
Mikael H & The Siberians
Matti Jasu and the Close Encounters
+ FOTM DJ team
pe 2.12. 2011 klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30
liput 3€

Mikael H & The Siberians photo: by Alena Rebova

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New songs from Carmen & The Devil

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Carmen & The Devil, The finest Finnish country/folk duo has some new songs for you. You might have heard these new Carmen & The Devil originals on their stunningly beautiful live concerts during the recent months, but now they’ve added the songs to their Soundcloud as well (there’s also a limited edition cassette that contains these new tunes, but that might be a bit tricky to find). This wonderful band will be mostly investigating the Austrian old time country scene for the next couple of years, but let’s hope they manage to get that debut album done and dusted sometime during 2012. That’s going to be a thing of beauty. The new songs are Tell-Tale Heart and Row Row and you’ll find them below. Hit the soundcloud link, if you haven’t heard the older ones, because those are equally amazing.

Carmen & The Devil: Tell-Tale Heart:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/28673494″]
 
Carmen & The Devil: Row Row:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/28673372″]
 
Carmen & The Devil at Facebook
Carmen & The Devil at Reverbnation
Carmen & The Devil at Soundcloud

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Marmalakes – Even Clothed

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I wrote a couple of words about Chase Weinacht’s two great solo albums back in june. Now his band Marmalakes has released a new EP entitled Even Clothed and oh my.. this is even better. I’m becoming seriously addicted to the music these guys make. This young band from Austin, TX is capable of writing really amazing folk-pop songs that contain beautiful, delicate harmonies and colourful arrangements. I’m totally loving this. For example this last song of the EP Balmorhea is mindblowingly brilliant. Listen to it below and check out the whole EP on their bandcamp. If I still wrote reviews, I think this would get full five hearts.

Marmalakes at Bandcamp
Marmalakes at Facebook

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Roger Joseph Manning Jr. appears on the upcoming Esa Linna single

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Esa Linna is getting ready to release a debut single She’s Not A Human Being in the coming months and a debut album is scheduled to be released later in 2012. This is already great news as it is, because Esa is definitely capable of stitching together awesome pop tunes. However, there’s also one minor (well major) detail that adds a truckload of excitement on top of it all. Pop wizard Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish etc) will play keys and sing harmonies on She’s Not A Human Being. That’s cooler than Alain Delon in Le Samourai.

Esa Linna Website

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