Zebra and Snake took a couple of years to develop their songs before making an album. Now the band is introducing a well-being concept that even modern medicine is not able to create – healing music.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Noora Isoeskeli
Influenced by punk, progressive rock, ska and folk music, Tundramatiks has now added Balkan accordion tunes to its hysterically fast Finnish rock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Burning Hearts’ brilliant and undeniably beautiful compositions move freely, like they had a mind of their own.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Made with great skill and a sense of style, Death & Decay may be retro, but it’s far from musty reminiscences of old times.
Text Teemu Fiilin
If Randy Barracuda and Mesak’s skweee music seems too disturbing, the Helsinki-based trio, Yöt, offers an EP with a more easily digestible version of the twisted skweee groove.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Tesla coil synthesizers, stalactite caves and a psychic foretelling machine – no wonder it usually takes four years to make and release a Pepe Deluxé album.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Noora Isoeskeli
During the past year Finland has seen the emergence of several rap artists with an immigrant background. Who are they and why are they talked about right now?
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Antti Ahtiluoto
Sound of Helsinki-based Black Twig is a mixture of the 1980s chiming indie bands, 1960s psychedelia, shoegazing buzz and garage esthetics.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Auteur Jazz’s style has often been described as “action jazz” – and for good reason. The band’s drive is quite breathtaking on their third album.
Text Teemu Fiilin
At its lightest the softly psychedelic and slightly cinematic 1970s progressive pop of Club Merano sounds like Air’s more rocking relative and at its vaguest like a Beatles tribute band that has swallowed Pink Floyd and Rush.
Text Teemu Fiilin
BMMB has created an amazing debut with futuristic space funk and R&B using wailing synths and unnaturally synthetic drum beats.
Text Teemu Fiilin
The Helsinki-based Regina knows that time is a pop band’s worst enemy. However, it found a new sound from its own past.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Sanna Lehto
The Helsinki-based Siinai may be a newcomer to the indie scene, but its music is far from the pleasantly loud traditional indie sound. That could hardly even be expected from a band that wants to create a theme album for the Olympics.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Vesa Mäkinen
The furious live ensemble made up of nine guys combines hip hop with everything from reggae to folk and 50s Finnish schlagers to ska.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Swan has made the album entirely on her own, interpreting Pavement’s boyish, guitar-dominated college rock through a female voice which is accompanied by a piano, keyboards and drum machine.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Hertta Lussu Ässä’s album gets its influences from ominous ambience, bright minimalism, sleepy folk and repetitive krautrock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Kerkko Koskinen’s fourth album approaches the 60s big band jazz through eleven original compositions.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Three years ago, the French-Finnish band The Dø delighted us with their experimental and slightly naive indie pop of their debut album. The likable duo will make a comeback at Flow Festival in August, with the second album that will be released in the fall.
Text Teemu Fiilin
During the past 15 years, the Finnish jazz and rhythm talent Teppo Mäkynen has played in a number of bands and recorded albums under different names, however never under his own name.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Johannes Romppanen
Even though the trio of Finnish indie veterans named their tenth studio album after the 1980s cult sports car, it doesn’t bow down to the ‘80s or other decades, just to itself.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Processory’s futuristic, melancholic and dark and occasionally gloomy electronic pop is not all dim. Behind all that lies an atmospheric melody with stylishly light production.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Sansa knows how to compose a top-class pop song with an emotional dimension and she is also able to sing them in a touching, slightly fragile and husky voice.
Text Teemu Fiilin
NT’s White Trash’s three-minute distortion pop songs are well composed, catchy and production-wise withstand international comparison.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mirel Wagner is like a music lover’s daydream. The young singer-songwriter from Espoo appeared out of the blue in 2010 and managed to convince even the most dedicated music lovers with her blues-folk sound. Now, Wagner is moving on to win the hearts of the rest of the world’s population.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Hertta Kiiski
Rubik can, for a good reason, be called Finland’s biggest indie band. The band’s indie approach is illustrated not only in its style of music but also in its way of thinking and the channel through which it releases its albums.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Matti Tanskanen
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20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Seven Connections – Finnish Architecture Abroad
11. January 2012
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
DesignWorld – Designing the New World
27. January 2012
Design Museum
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