Finnish music, News

Kaspar

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Kaspar’s debut album will be released today 19th of august. Needless to say that I will make a trip to the record store when I wake up (it’s 2 am now). In case you are wondering what is Kaspar, it’s the new band formed by John McGregor, Mikael Hakkarainen and Tuomas Hakkarainen and they recorded this debut album in New York with producer Malcolm Burn. In case you are wondering what they sound like, there’s several songs from the album on their myspace and the music video of the first single Phoenix is below. In case you are wondering are they any good, I would say that they are great eventhough I have not heard the album. In case you are wondering, why I don’t stop writing this bullshit and let you concentrate on the music.. well I don’t have a clue..

 
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Starflower

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Starflower have finished recording a follow up to their excellent debut album Moment In The Sun. The second album entitled Ceasefires will be released this fall, but you can already get a sneak preview, because they just added a couple of great songs from the upcoming album to their myspace.

Starflower at myspace

Starflower photo by Maria Arponen
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General, International music

The Duke & The King + other things

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I finally got The Duke & The King album on friday and I’m totally addicted to it. It’s Simone Felice’s new project and I think I love it even more than The Felice Brothers (which is a lot said).

The Duke & The King at myspace

I’ve been a bit of an lazy boy lately and haven’t even done those top of the week lists, but during the last few weeks, I’ve been mostly listening to The Jayhawks anthology, that excellent The Emitt Rhodes Recordings 2-CD set that is finally out there and available for everyone, Haruko’s Wild Geese, Magnolia Electric Co’s Josephine and now this gorgeous The Duke & The King album Nothing Gold Can Stay.

I also have a goal to get this blog rolling smoothly during the fall and winter, but we’ll see how it goes. No more promises that I can’t keep though. Not sure about adding more reviews eventhough I did one “my kind of review” tonight. If I can convince myself that they are worth writing, maybe I’ll do a few once in a while. But they definitely won’t be that frequent that you should start filling my mailbox with promo copies.

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