I’m playing a gig next Saturday with fellow Turku musicians Folk-Valto & Ippe Nilsson on the same bill! The festivities take place at Radbar (Tku). Check the event’s details by clicking the pic below.
Recording
I’m currently working on a new album with the Loose Train and it’s great fun. We made the first recordings couple of days ago and tried out a new recording format too – cassette tapes. I don’t think it’s going be the only recording medium to be used in these sessions but it’s always interesting to explore different recording techniques. We used Cutec MR402D 4-track cassette recorder, a bunch of ribbon mics, recorded everything live and the results sound good!
Gone To the Charts
Here are some end-of-year polls that include ‘Gone To the Dogs’:
– Pop Goes Crunch’s Best EPs of 2016
– One Chord To Another’s Top 10 Finnish Albums of the Year 2016
– Nordic Music Review’s Favourite Albums of 2016
– Glue’s Best Finnish Albums of 2016
– Shoegazer Alive 9’s Top 40 Shoegazer Psychedelic/Psychic/Psychedelic Pop Albums of 2016
Yeah!
Live
I’ll perform solo at Gong (Turku) on January 12. The event (Ipaviemäri-klubi) is a part of Turku Band Festival. Other artists of the evening are Sister Capricorn and Joku Iiris. Check the event on Gong’s page by clicking the pic below. More info about Turku Band Festival can be found here.
Power Popsicle Brain Freeze
Ice Cream Man Power Pop and More radio show’s new compilation is out now and ‘What Goes On’ by Matti Jasu and the Loose Train is included. ‘Power Popsicle Brain Freeze’ is a great collection of music featured on the show and you can download it for free.
http://icecreamman1967.blogspot.se/
Oulu Music Video Festival
Our ‘What Goes On’ vid made it to the Oulu Music Video Festival’s competition. You can check out the list of all of the nominees here: http://www.omvf.net/fi/kotimainen-kilpailu/kotimainen-kilpailu-2016
Distros
The physical copies of ‘Gone to the Dogs’ and the previous albums are now available at these stores:
Jigsaw Records (Seattle, USA)
Thistime Records (Tokyo, Japan)
Live
We’ll do some string strumming and pedal stomping at Kuka (Turku) on April 22. Check the event on Facebook for more details.
More March Mentions
A shout-out to ‘If There’s Hell Below’ for including our music in one of their podcasts and comparing Janne’s guitar work to Hendrix!
Gone To the Dogs is no. 36 on ‘1001 Records’ blog’s 200 Best Albums of March list.
Ice Cream Man’s Podcast And Stores
If you missed Ice Cream Man’s Power Pop show on Radio Andra (www.radioandra.se), listen to it now as a podcast. We’re included in a bunch of great tunes! You can find the latest show from here: http://icecreammanpowerpop1967.podomatic.com
You can now also get the CD from 8raita record store (Turku, Finland) and Kool Kat Musik (New Jersey, USA). More stores will be added soon.