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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

thegreatpark

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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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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Robbie Fulks – Gone Away Backward

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There was a time in my life when I listened to a lot of Robbie Fulks who is a great country/alt.country singer-songwriter from Chicago. Especially Let’s Kill Saturday Night was a big favourite back in 1998 (oh dear, 1998, where did those 15 years go, it feels like it was more like 5 years ago) and also 2005 release Georgia Hard got a lot of air time in this household. During the recent years I haven’t followed his career as closely as I probably should have. However, Bloodshot Records just released a new Robbie Fulks album Gone Away Backward and it sounds like my heart and Robbie’s music still work well together. You should definitely give this record a chance, if you are into traditional country sounds. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve heard so far and further studies will take place sometime soon. This one is When You Got To The Bottom.

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Robbie Fulks Website

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