I feel very priviledged to tell you, that the new album by Laurila has a name.
[insert drumroll here]
Boyhood!
The recording is finished and it has turned out to be an instant classic! The producer Ville Särmä from Kevin has made a great job and many thanks are also due to Nick Triani, who has mixed the whole album!
But don't belive our hype! Have a listen at the Laurila MySpace!!
Download Boyhood at Nokia Musiikkikauppa
December 11, 2006
The Conquistadors: Daydreamer video!
I gotta tell you, they just made this cool video themselves last week and with a lower budget than your normal friday-visit to your friendly next door record store. The album Mil Mascaras is due in January!! Go visit The Conquistadors at their web.
September 07, 2006
Great news and some updates!
I am proud to present that the new album by The Conquistadors is going to be a joint venture between Kinkt and our great friends from Elements Music. Some of the acts they are currently working with include Stella, Poor Seamus and Calf. The Conquistadors' album "Mil Mascaras" is already finished and it sounds great! It is going to be available early 2007!The Laurila album is going to be released in 2007 as well. Watch This space!
Be sure to check out the Kinkt-gigs from the Kinkt Myspace. There are some updated gigs from Treeball and Laurila.
May 29, 2006
Poprunot. Nyt!
Treeball on isosti mukana City-lehden poprunoja käsittelevässä artikkelissa. Sivulla voi myös keskustella aiheesta.
Treeball reviews
Vesa at Onechord.net reviews the album, giving it 4/5.
"..the finest moments hug my soul and kiss me goodnight."
Etelä-Suomen Sanomat
"..Astrid Swan on suorastaan säväyttävä.", "..on erinomaisen hienoa, että Suomessa tehdään tällaista musiikkia."
Juha Seitz at Ilkka
"..vaivattoman helmeilevää poppia."
"..the finest moments hug my soul and kiss me goodnight."
Etelä-Suomen Sanomat
"..Astrid Swan on suorastaan säväyttävä.", "..on erinomaisen hienoa, että Suomessa tehdään tällaista musiikkia."
Juha Seitz at Ilkka
"..vaivattoman helmeilevää poppia."
May 04, 2006
Laurila ja Treeball tänään Kuudennella Linjalla
Tänään torstaina kannattaa hilata itsensä Kuudennelle Linjalle (Hämeentie 13, Hki), jossa soittavat Laurila ja Treeball. Liput 6€.
Soittoaika on aikaisin. Laurila klo 22:00, Treeball 23:00 ja Mummypowder 00:00.
DJ Markus Nordenstreng soittaa levyjä.
April 25, 2006
Treeball does Njassa on Radio Helsinki
Well they don't actually do him, but you know.. ;)
This Wednesday! 18:00 Treeball is interviewed by the great DJ Njassa at Radio Helsinki.
The band will talk about the great new album Liars in Love, and they'll play some songs from the wonderful album! Great stuff!
This Wednesday! 18:00 Treeball is interviewed by the great DJ Njassa at Radio Helsinki.
The band will talk about the great new album Liars in Love, and they'll play some songs from the wonderful album! Great stuff!
Welcome Laurila!
Ta-daa [insert drumroll]
We've been too busy to blog this, but there's a new Kinkt band on the roster, and it's Laurila.
The guys in the band have a cool history behind them, but first you need to have a listen to their music at the Laurila MySpace. I'll tell you more about them in due time!
We've been too busy to blog this, but there's a new Kinkt band on the roster, and it's Laurila.
The guys in the band have a cool history behind them, but first you need to have a listen to their music at the Laurila MySpace. I'll tell you more about them in due time!
April 06, 2006
April 05, 2006
Request Treeball on Radio
Hi everyone!
Please help Kinkt Records out by requesting Treeball songs on the radio. You can do it by clicking the links below:
YLEX
You can e-mail them at ylex.toiveet@yle.fi
or clickety-click here.
Radio Helsinki
You can e-mail them at palaute@radiohelsinki.fi
or send an SMS biisi treeball let me out of here to 173005 (Finland only)
X3M
Fill out the form here.
Radio SuomiPOP
Fill ot the request form here.
Please help Kinkt Records out by requesting Treeball songs on the radio. You can do it by clicking the links below:
YLEX
You can e-mail them at ylex.toiveet@yle.fi
or clickety-click here.
Radio Helsinki
You can e-mail them at palaute@radiohelsinki.fi
or send an SMS biisi treeball let me out of here to 173005 (Finland only)
X3M
Fill out the form here.
Radio SuomiPOP
Fill ot the request form here.
First Review!
Desibeli.Net has reviewed the new Treeball album! And what a review! 4,5 stars out of five! Go read it from here.
April 03, 2006
Treeball: Liars In Love
Treeball's new album Liars in Love is going to be released on the 12th of April. It's the newest release from the Helsinki-based supergroup. The album is loosely based on Richard Yates' novella of the same name.You can have a listen to the beautiful tunes through Treeball's Myspace.
If you would like to have a copy of the album, please order one from Kinkt.
March 28, 2006
New Baby's here!
At last, the Treeball album has arrived from the factory. It sounds great and it looks great! Can't wait to get it out of my hands for you guys to listen! The release date is 12th of April, so be sure to save them pennies for that special occassion kids!
Meanwhile, you should check out the Treeball Myspace!
Meanwhile, you should check out the Treeball Myspace!
January 31, 2006
New Kinkt address and a new Kinkt-release on the way
Hello guys!
It's been a long and harsh winter, but Kinkt is still alive!
Keep them demo's coming, but please note that there is a new address!
Ilkka Kujansivu
Kinkt Records
Malminkatu 32 A 10
00100 Helsinki
Thank you for your music, it's been great to listen to your stuff. Unfortunately we aren't able to reply to all of you guys, but your music is carefully listened to. Please remember to include your contacts, when you send something, it really helps ;)
The greatest piece of news of 2006 is that Kinkt Records is going to release the up n'coming Treeball album! More info will follow, so remember to stay tuned!
Treeball is a great pop band and it's almost impossible to tell how excited we are about their new stuff!!!
It's been a long and harsh winter, but Kinkt is still alive!
Keep them demo's coming, but please note that there is a new address!
Ilkka Kujansivu
Kinkt Records
Malminkatu 32 A 10
00100 Helsinki
Thank you for your music, it's been great to listen to your stuff. Unfortunately we aren't able to reply to all of you guys, but your music is carefully listened to. Please remember to include your contacts, when you send something, it really helps ;)
The greatest piece of news of 2006 is that Kinkt Records is going to release the up n'coming Treeball album! More info will follow, so remember to stay tuned!
Treeball is a great pop band and it's almost impossible to tell how excited we are about their new stuff!!!
October 28, 2005
My Morning Jacket: Z
Hi-de-ho. It's snowing outside, but I don't care. I've found the best album for this autumn yet. My Morning Jacket has knitted together a breath-taking album with a mixture of great rocking tunes and also mellower bits and bobs.I'm not in the mood to go any deeper with this review. I'll just turn up the heating and the volume in my soundsystem a few notches as well.
September 15, 2005
Downloading and other bits of geek-info
Two new Finnish download-portals have opened up for business - Helsingin Sanomat with Musiikkilataamo and Ilta-Sanomat with their own Ilta-Sanomat - Musiikki. After a mere browse through both of the new services, I have to congratulate Musiikkilataamo on a better positioning of their service. Also, a great thing about these two services is that you don't need to download a new player to purchase music. I have to say though that I'm a huge fan of iTunes, which by the way, has released v5.0!Download.NetAnttila.com and iTunes Music Store will be challenged by these two new services, and especially Musiikkilataamo will surely prove to be a trustworthy contender.
Roku-mentti
Joensuussa järjestetään 11.-13.11 Rokumentti, nimikkeen alla Rockelokuvafestivaali. Ohjelmistossa on mm. Andreas Haaning Christiansenin 22 Pistepirkoista kertova dokkari Sleep Good - Rock Well.Ohjelmisto vaikuttaa vähintäänkin mielenkiintoiselta, mutta täältä etelästä taitaa tulla hiukkasen pitkä matka näille festareille. Hienoa kuitenkin, että tälläistä järjestetään. Joensuu näyttää jälleen kerran olevansa Suomen aktiivisimpia kaupunkeja, josta hattua nostettakoon.
Taidan tyytyä Rakkauteen ja Anarkiaan, liput on jo hankittu viiteen rainaan.
September 08, 2005
IS BOB DYLAN THE ANTI-IDOLS?
Hi all!
What a week! New Orleans reduced to a swamp - American authorities stretched - hard to know how the people of New Orleans can move on with their lives after Katrina.
I interviewed Stephen Malkmus (ex-of Pavement) yesterday and asked him what he thought of the crises and how GW Bush would cope with the growing critisism. He answered me that whoever was in power would have struggled with the relief aid and the American media especially had it in for Bush after being cut out of Iraq and not given full access there. He said rightly they had reported New Orleans/Katrina as they saw it. However it was clear talking to Malkmus that the European media had covered the event much more criticly-and as Stephen mentioned to me-it was Mother Nature after all. Fair point-New Orleans could be the first city to go from Global Warming.
Stephen Malkmus's latest solo album "Face the Truth" (Domino) is his best yet-up there with his best Pavement work-if your looking for something melodic, interesting, weird and beautiful-check it out now.
Columbia Records has always been in many people's eyes the Artists label, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkle, Laura Nyro and many others. The cradle of nuturing great songwriting throughout the 60's and 70's. Anything with the famous Red label would be worth aquiring as a sign of quality. Of course times change, and the output of Columbia (not to mention the Red label), have moved with the times-just another major sub-label nowadays. One exception has been the Bob Dylan Bootleg series, a selection of unreleased or rare tracks, concerts, tours etc. the series has been ongoing since the mid 90's. The 7th in the series has just been released by Columbia (red label intact!), Bob Dylan "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack". The album covers Dylan from 1961 to the release of Blonde on Blonde in 1966. Lots of unreleased and different versions of Dylan classics are included-but most importantly-the album shows how popular music found it's voice, how it became a political and social phenomenom the world over-and if you like-why i'm writing this blog now! These are big claims-but ultimately pop music was lyricaly redundant pre Dylan abandoning his folk roots and picking up an electric guitar. "Bringing it All Back" (1965), "Highway 61" (66) & "Blonde On Blonde" (66), the latter a double album (we think bands are prolific these days!), reshaped Rock & Pop music forever. The Mercury Sound. as these trio of albums are referred to bleed with punkrock intensity, the greatest lyrics ever!-and songs that few artists have matched before or since. Tracks from these albums-albeit different versions (but just as great) are represented on "No Direction Home". A movie accompanying the release about Dylan in this period, Directed by Martin Scorsese, should hit Finnish screens soon-i hope! Bob Dylan's relevance is still pertinant-just check out "A Hard Rains Gonna Fall" in light of Hurricane Katrina.
Dylan is a timely reminder that there is a musical revolution going on as we speak. Bands and artists with credibility are releasing un-safe records and increasingly BECOMING the mainstream. The Killers, Franz ferdinand (both approaching 5 million sales for their debut albums), Coldplay, Keane,
Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Gorillaz, The Strokes, Death Cab For Cutie-the list goes on-are all million sellers. Inventive and original music is no longer in the indie getto-people want substance with there music.
Unfortunately, in Finland, this has'nt really been reflected-we are still living the walking talking Idols hang over-which increasingly the rest of the world has got over. As a new series of the "talent" show starts on Finnish TV, and the release of the original Idols' winner Hanna Pakarinen's "Stronger" album is released-i can't stomach this level of waste anymore. With so much good new talent coming out of Finland NOW, it's awful that the IDOLS rules the airwaves and our TV screens. I fell in love with David Bowie as a kid because he was a sexy, androgynous alien-not a fork lift driver!!! We don't want pop-stars you can meet on the street-we want larger than life personalities-who-most importantly can do things we cant-that's why they are special! If you believe that music should have a passion and reflect that passion for life, say something to you, not be contrived by THE MAN, move you to tears or joy, reflect the world you live in, make you feel sexy, sad, human, special and different-put a stop to this now, make that difference. It's up to you-buy good music!!!!
Nick Triani is a record producer, singer songwriter in the band Treeball and a dj on Radio Helsinki.
What a week! New Orleans reduced to a swamp - American authorities stretched - hard to know how the people of New Orleans can move on with their lives after Katrina.
I interviewed Stephen Malkmus (ex-of Pavement) yesterday and asked him what he thought of the crises and how GW Bush would cope with the growing critisism. He answered me that whoever was in power would have struggled with the relief aid and the American media especially had it in for Bush after being cut out of Iraq and not given full access there. He said rightly they had reported New Orleans/Katrina as they saw it. However it was clear talking to Malkmus that the European media had covered the event much more criticly-and as Stephen mentioned to me-it was Mother Nature after all. Fair point-New Orleans could be the first city to go from Global Warming.
Stephen Malkmus's latest solo album "Face the Truth" (Domino) is his best yet-up there with his best Pavement work-if your looking for something melodic, interesting, weird and beautiful-check it out now.
Columbia Records has always been in many people's eyes the Artists label, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkle, Laura Nyro and many others. The cradle of nuturing great songwriting throughout the 60's and 70's. Anything with the famous Red label would be worth aquiring as a sign of quality. Of course times change, and the output of Columbia (not to mention the Red label), have moved with the times-just another major sub-label nowadays. One exception has been the Bob Dylan Bootleg series, a selection of unreleased or rare tracks, concerts, tours etc. the series has been ongoing since the mid 90's. The 7th in the series has just been released by Columbia (red label intact!), Bob Dylan "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack". The album covers Dylan from 1961 to the release of Blonde on Blonde in 1966. Lots of unreleased and different versions of Dylan classics are included-but most importantly-the album shows how popular music found it's voice, how it became a political and social phenomenom the world over-and if you like-why i'm writing this blog now! These are big claims-but ultimately pop music was lyricaly redundant pre Dylan abandoning his folk roots and picking up an electric guitar. "Bringing it All Back" (1965), "Highway 61" (66) & "Blonde On Blonde" (66), the latter a double album (we think bands are prolific these days!), reshaped Rock & Pop music forever. The Mercury Sound. as these trio of albums are referred to bleed with punkrock intensity, the greatest lyrics ever!-and songs that few artists have matched before or since. Tracks from these albums-albeit different versions (but just as great) are represented on "No Direction Home". A movie accompanying the release about Dylan in this period, Directed by Martin Scorsese, should hit Finnish screens soon-i hope! Bob Dylan's relevance is still pertinant-just check out "A Hard Rains Gonna Fall" in light of Hurricane Katrina.
Dylan is a timely reminder that there is a musical revolution going on as we speak. Bands and artists with credibility are releasing un-safe records and increasingly BECOMING the mainstream. The Killers, Franz ferdinand (both approaching 5 million sales for their debut albums), Coldplay, Keane,
Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Gorillaz, The Strokes, Death Cab For Cutie-the list goes on-are all million sellers. Inventive and original music is no longer in the indie getto-people want substance with there music.
Unfortunately, in Finland, this has'nt really been reflected-we are still living the walking talking Idols hang over-which increasingly the rest of the world has got over. As a new series of the "talent" show starts on Finnish TV, and the release of the original Idols' winner Hanna Pakarinen's "Stronger" album is released-i can't stomach this level of waste anymore. With so much good new talent coming out of Finland NOW, it's awful that the IDOLS rules the airwaves and our TV screens. I fell in love with David Bowie as a kid because he was a sexy, androgynous alien-not a fork lift driver!!! We don't want pop-stars you can meet on the street-we want larger than life personalities-who-most importantly can do things we cant-that's why they are special! If you believe that music should have a passion and reflect that passion for life, say something to you, not be contrived by THE MAN, move you to tears or joy, reflect the world you live in, make you feel sexy, sad, human, special and different-put a stop to this now, make that difference. It's up to you-buy good music!!!!
Nick Triani is a record producer, singer songwriter in the band Treeball and a dj on Radio Helsinki.
August 24, 2005
Kevin @ Åbo, Helsinki 23.8.2005
Yesterday it was time for Art Goes Kapakka, which brought Kevin to my secondary livingroom i.e. Åbo at Uudenmaankatu.I didn't quite catch the first part of their set, but the latter part provided everyone with entertaining pop. I guess they called it post-something. Have I ever told you that I hate genre labels?
Quite apart from the actual gig, I've been thinking about music in general. Quite a number of people (mostly girls) have been raving about Kevin for quite a while now, but none of them have ever mentioned Kevin's music. They've been talking about this and that and especially how sweet a guy Finn Andersson is and how amazingly hot he is. I've got absolutely no objections on the subject, but after hearing people's opinions on the subject, I've started to have serious doubts whether most people have any real interest in music at all.
Maybe that's being a bit cynical, but hey, that's my privilege. :)
August 23, 2005
Suomirokkia Muistikortilla
Oho. Kaikkea ne keksii. Epe & Co. ovat lanseeranneet Suomen ensimmäisen musiikkijulkaisun puhelimen muistikorttina. Poko Rekordsin Suomirokkia 10 lupaa toimia ainakin Nokian kännyissä: N70, N90, 7710, 6681, 6680, 6630, 6230i , 6230, 9300, 9500, 7610, 6670, 6260 ja 3230.Aika näyttää, onko tälläisellä julkaisulla mitään kaupallisia mahdollisuuksia, mutta täytynee nostaa hattua Pokon väelle, koska he ovat olleet aina ensimmäisenä kokeilemassa uusia innovaatioita.
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