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News: Jukka Takalo

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I somehow managed to live under the impression that this wasn’t officially released before late february and therefore I’m a little bit late with these news. Jukka Takalo’s new solo album Vastarannan laulut was actually released last week, on 2nd of february by SOF. Check out the latest videosingle Armonpulla below

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDl8IOKqi0]

Jukka Takalo Website

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Finnish music, Finnish music videos, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #35: Treehouse

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Fairly new Finnish band Treehouse is just getting better all the time. These guys have already written a lot of really good pop music with their earlier groups, but now I’m starting to believe that Treehouse will outclass their earlier projects. I really enjoyed the first video, but I freakin’ love this one. I’m a harmony addict and this song will keep me away from my dealer for a long while. I may have listened to way too much (well that’s actually impossible) Popsicle and Teenage Fanclub in my life and I’ve started to see them everywhere I go, but I do get a little bit of Popsicle vibe in the verse and TFC in the chorus. It could be just me. Anyway, By The Lake by Treehouse is a marvellous country-tinged pop song. Just listen, enjoy and fall in love.

Treehouse – By the Lake from Hessu on Vimeo.

Treehouse at Facebook

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Carmen & The Devil – Amazing male-female country duets

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Carmen & The Devil are exploring the american country & folk tradition, playing old (but never out of) fashion male-female duets, singing their hearts out.. and they are doing it all exceptionally well. They first started out playing Gillian Welch’s songs, but have since expanded their repertoire and nowadays you can also hear them cover other artists from Hank Williams to Holly Golightly. Last friday at Flavour Of The Month club, they also gave the world premiere to the first Carmen & The Devil original Love Drove My Baby Away. A song has to be pretty damn good, if it doesn’t feel any weaker than the Gillian Welch songs they were playing and this one didn’t. I will be ecstatic if they one day have a full EP/album of their own material. Oh, to tell you the truth, I’m already ecstatic, because The first Carmen & The Devil release Live by the Kitchen Table is out and available as a limited edition c-cassette! It contains Love Drove My Baby Away and some great covers. Demand is apparently high and Fredde’s cassette factory is running on overcapacity, but if you are interested in one, you better visit the best record store in Turku/Finland/World, 8raita Record Store.

Listen to the amazing Carmen & The Devil original Love Drove My Baby Away and their rendition of Rattlin’ Bones (song by Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson) below. Both are from the Live by the Kitchen Table cassette.

Love Drove My Baby Away:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDoxJeyQ9I8]

Rattlin’ Bones:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVHpVcxdl4]

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