NEW & NOTABLE: OCELOT (FIN) – MÄ VOIN OTTAA SUN IKÄVÄN POIS
Last week saw Helsinki avant-garde pop outfit Ocelot release their debut EP Mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois (loosely translated as What Can I Take Away). The trio centre around the songwriting, piano and idiosyncratic voice of multimedia artist Emilia Pennanen and the EP itself on four tracks penned a number of years ago. About […]
ASTRID SWAN AND STINA KOISTINEN UNITE IN LIFE AND ART FOR SYMPTOMS & MANAGEMENT
Acclaimed Finnish artists Astrid Swan and Stina Koistinen (Color Dolor) have joined forces for a new experimental and chamber pop project simply named Swan/Koistinen. Due to deliver their debut EP in May titled Symptoms & Management, last Friday saw them release ‘Diagnosis’, its sparse and surreal but richly intense first single. An experiential and personal […]
RECORD REVIEW: CATS ON FIRE: ALL BLACKSHIRTS TO ME
It’s been a long and frustrating road travelled for main Cats On Fire protagonist Mattias Björkas and company. The now five piece pop troubadors had their beginnings in the then somewhat small and isolated west coast Finnish town of Vaasa where in late 2002/early 2003 as an 18 year old Swedish speaking Björkas, Kenneth Höglund […]