Persona (1966), Ingmar Bergman's Most Experimental Film

Trailer


The beginning of the film


An excerpt 1


An excerpt 2


[Persona @ Wikipedia]

Album Art War

Album Art War by Ugly Pictures

Magyar Posse: 'Whirlpool of Terror and Tension'

Magyar Posse: 'Whirlpool of Terror and Tension'

Magyar Posse is a Finnish instrumental postrock act which takes its cues among all from Ennio Morricone's film music and 70s progressive rock, à la Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". This Magyar Posse video by Lauri Warsta and Jouni Karttunen was awarded the "Golden Pumpeli", the first prize at Oulu Music Video Festival of 2006.

What Is Skweee?

Flow magazine has an article on Skweee, the new Scandinavian electronic dance music style.

Synthetik Skandinavian Funk is called Skweee.

The Synthetik Skandinavian Funk, or Skweee music, obviously origins from Scandinavia -- less obvious is that it was created by a man called Frans Carlqvist, who is also known as Pavan. He's the founder of the small independent label Flogsta Danshall that focuses on this type of music. Recently a new Skweee-label popped up in Finland, called Harmönia. The time was right to let Pavan explain.

For those that haven't heard the music, explain what Skweee is!

Skweee is instrumental, pretty primtive electronic music influenced by the rhythms of R'n'B, dancehall and funk. It usually consists of a 'dirty' sound, vibes that make you think of early electro, techno and c-64 music. When you hear it, you know what Skweee is.

For those that have heard it, but yet don't understand. Please, help them out.

Well, the tempo is pretty low around 90-110 bpm. Sometimes it contains parts of Arabic music. A lot of square waves and kind of lo-fi. Apart from a couple of Skweee-remixes that've been made, most Skweee is released on 7" vinyl."

Skweee @ Wikipedia

pHinnWeb Chart October 2006...

... can be found here.

Kompleksi: Sara Pain Project

Mike Not:








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The Leading Lady:




Lada:




Kompleksi: Sara Pain Project -- more images

M.A. Numminen: 'Yes Sir, Ich Bin Boogie'

M.A. Numminen feat. Pedro Hietanen: 'Yes Sir, Ich Bin Boogie'

M.A. Numminen's memorable rendition of Baccara's 70s hit...

Listen more:

M.A. Numminen & DJ Sane @ MySpace

Metablogging

We are working on one major project now (about which I'd rather be talking only when we've got more of it together), so I haven't had time to update this blog much lately, and I don't think it would serve its purpose too much, either, if I only kept linking some favourite video clips of mine from YouTube here.

Judging by comments from certain people it's funny that I might have appeared a somewhat depressed person in the past or perhaps might have talked about it too much here if I've been under the weather myself. So I started to seriously think about it, and decided I don't want to talk about those personal emotions in public, as if computer screen was some sort of confession grill for me. At least not that much that I have before. Because I realise how gratuituous that sort of wallowing in the mud of personal depressions can appear for the people who have to keep witnessing it. It's a vicious circle ultimately leading nowhere unless a person has enough will to do a conscious decision to get out of that rut. (I'm talking mostly about myself, of course, not exactly anyone else's situation.) We live in a therapy culture of self-victimization, and being a victim is one role I don't want be perceived as. As for me, I guess being able to work and create constantly is the exact thing that keeps me happy.

So, it seems I might be running out of topics here if it concerns my own psycho-geography. Perhaps this blog will be less personal and more a "bulletin board" announcing our own projects, and occasionally writing and linking about things that I find myself interesting. As you have noticed, this change has been going on for awhile already, and will probably continue. I don't know when I'm going to talk to you again, so till then: may you keep walking in the light.

Popmusiikin vuosisata (1968)

Popmusiikin vuosisata ("The Century of Pop Music", Tammi 1968) by Pekka Gronow and Seppo Bruun was probably one the first books in Finnish seriously delving into popular music. In this book Gronow and Bruun chronicle popular musical styles in Finland from the early 20th century to their own days, also giving room to a brief history of Western (read: mostly American) pop music from jazz and blues to rock music. The book provides indispensable info on Finnish 1960s when tango still ruled supreme in domestic pop and any rock bands playing outside Helsinki risked being subjected to physical violence if they refused to play tango, foxtrot and other "old dance music" for the countryside audiences, and Finnish rock in general was only in its infancy; Blues Section (which had just split when the book came out) mentioned as one of the biggest domestic promises. M.A. Numminen and The Sperm are also there as some brief, passing examples of the new "underground music". Of the international bands of its own time The Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, Yardbirds, Doors and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention are all briefly introduced or at least namechecked; Pink Floyd and The Velvet Underground being some notable omissions, both bands becoming household names only in the 70s. Alongside black and white photographs, the book also includes some original illustrations from Timo Aarniala, who also provided cover art for Suomen Talvisota 1939-1940's legendary album (not to talk about Aarniala's own underground comics of the time).



Ad for Simo Salminen's single Pornolaulu ("Porno Song"), 1968


Finnish rock fans in the 60s

Garage Rock in Finland

Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go! opening credits

A prime example of the 1960s Mod graphics style from the popular UK music TV show Ready Steady Go!.

More Ready Steady Go! search results @ YouTube

Ready Steady Go! @ Mod Culture

Ready Steady Go! @ Nostalgia Central

Ready Steady Go! @ Television Heaven

The Last Ever Alternative Night @ Yo-Talo

After running since 1995, DJs Henkka and Mikko (image below) have decided to call it a day with their Alternative Night Saturday discos at Tampere's Yo-Talo. The last Alternative Night will be on Saturday 23 September 2006.

I guest-DJed myself at these events in the late 1990s but only found it really frustrating in the end, so I quit. Because there were not really too many chances to play anything that would challenge the Britpop hierarchy of the day. Still, it's a bit sad to see this institution go.


DJs Mikko Aaltonen & Henri "Henkka" Keto-Tokoi

Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an American experimental film-maker, also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer. Above you can see her first and best-known film Meshes of the Afternoon, a haunting, surreal study in stark black and white.

More Maya Deren search results @ YouTube

pHinnWeb Chart September 2006...

... can be found here.

More Kompleksi @ Musasalama, Radio Helsinki

Musasalama @ Radio Helsinki
Playlist 24 August 2006
Time: 2300-0100 EET

1 COSMOBILE - On My Way (Cosmobile)
2 MESMER - Subutex Willer (Mälsä kolhoosi)
3 GONG - Love Is How Y Make It (!K7)
4 TESTBILD! - Where Did This Begin? (Friendly Noise/Dotshop.se)
5 BARDO POND - Lost Word (All Tomorrow's Parties)
6 ESPERS - Dead King (Wichita)
7 SCATTER - O Death (Blank Tapes/Dotshop.se)
8 IKE YARD - Loss (Acute/Dotshop.se)
9 KOMPLEKSI - Porno Tampere (Kompleksi)
10 T.A. KAUKOLAMPI - Paraphonic Repeating Vase Waves (Aaltosvoice.com)
11 CHAS MTN - Friendly Skies (Western Vinyl/Dotshop.se)
12 PHELAN SHEPPARD - Broken in the Wrong Places (Leaf/Dotshop.se)
13 PLAID & BOB JAROC - Zn Zero (Warp)
14 RÄTTÖ JA LEHTISALO - Saamari kantaa olympiasoihdun stadionille (Ektro)
15 PONYTAIL - Kovisbambi (Tuulanauhat)
16 MAGNUM 38 - Du machts mich schmutzig (Shitkatapult)
17 MARKKU LAHTELAN SIRKUS - Nurin lentää lintu (Kevyt nostalgia)
18 ORLA WREN - Ballad of a Daydream (Expanding Records)
19 RYAN TEAGUE - Coins & Crosses (Type/Dotshop.se)
20 SEIDENMATT - Thuwe pt. 2 (Sinnbus/Dotshop.se)

Tammerforce 25 August 2006 Images

Orgue Electronique's Brian Chinetti and Legowelt's Danny Wolfers


Sakke Karipuro, that ever-trusty court photographer of Tampere electronic dance music scene has photos he took of last night's Tammerforce event here:

http://sakarik.1g.fi/kuvat/Events/tammerforce-20060825-feat_legowelt_and_orgue_electronique/

Holland's Orgue Electronique and Legowelt were both amazing, and I (the guy in white Murdercapital T-shirt for those who were there) danced my ass off. Soundwise a lot of it made me think of 80s Chicago house à la Adonis' 'No Way Back', Sakke compared some Legowelt stuff to Leo Anibaldi and DJ Autobass raved to me about their 101.

And if you watch closely, you can also see the members of Kompleksi lurking somewhere there in the pics...

Jarkko Laine In Memoriam

Jarkko Laine (17 March 1947 - 19 August 2006)

Finnish writer, poet and playwright Jarkko Laine has passed away. Laine became known in the late 60s as one of the pioneers in Finnish underground culture when he published in Turku with another "U" luminary, Markku Into, their provocative counterculture magazine Aamurusko. Laine also provided with Into and M.A. Numminen lyrics for the band Suomen Talvisota 1939-1970. Furthermore, Laine wrote lyrics for Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki.

Jarkko Laine @ Wikipedia

Jarkko Laine: Kuin ruumissaatto

Cerrone: ''Supernature' / Space: 'Magic Fly'

Cerrone: 'Supernature'

Talking about Kenny Everett and Hot Gossip, it was at Everett's show where I first heard Cerrone's now-classic Eurodisco hit 'Supernature', where Gossips did their thing to this song. Unfortunately YouTube doesn't offer (at least, not yet) Hot Gossip's performance to 'Supernature' but above you can check Cerrone's hilarious original video (Magical Mystery Tour, anyone?) from 1977.

More Cerrone search results @ YouTube

And while on the subject, here's another classic Eurodisco moment from 1977 for you, by Space:


Space: 'Magic Fly'

More Kompleksi Playlists @ Radio Helsinki

Samu Montonen of Musasalama radio show @ Radio Helsinki kindly provided us with these playlists of different shows who have played our tracks at this station.

(If you're a radio/club DJ/music writer/A&R person yourself, just drop us a mail to phinnweb[at]sci.fi with your contact street address, and we are happy to send you a CDR of our music.)

MUSASALAMA 20060810 1900-2100

1 VOLCANO! - Apple or a Gun (Leaf/Dotshop.se)
2 PET - Whip My Blue Chip (Grönland/Dotshop.se)
3 THE DEARS - Find Our Way To Freedom (Bella Union)
4 POP LEVI - Blue Honey (Counter)
5 MALCOLM KAKSOIS - Sexy Dentist (promo mix) (Kaksois Recordings)
6 RISTO - Nina, olen palasina (Fonal)
7 LE SPORT - It's not the End of the World (Songs I Wish I Had Written)
8 VITALIC - You Are My Sun (Different)
9 ESPERS - Widow's Weed (Wichita)
10 SLEEPY JACKSON - Play A Little Bit For Love (Virgin)
11 ERIK LEVANDER - Sekund (Rumraket)
12 SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN - The Main Vein (Very Friendly/Manhand)
13 MERCURY REV - Tonite It Shows (V2)
14 FRIKO - Mandoola (C+C Records/Dotshop.se)
15 IAIN ARCHER - Canal Song (End of Sentence) (We Love You)
16 KOMPLEKSI - Spiders in the Sky (Kompleksi)
17 HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS - Brest (Stilll/Dotshop.se)
18 IKE YARD - Night After Night (Acute/Dotshop.se)
19 NINA NASTASIA - Jim's Room (FatCat)
20 BEAR QUARTET - Where I Cried (A West Side Fabrication)
21 PONYTAIL - Lapsi (Tuulanauhat)
22 MUGISON - One Day She'll Park the Car (Lifelike/Dotshop.se)
23 LOVE - The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This (Elektra)
24 LAMBCHOP - Fear (City Slang)

MUSAREKKA MUSAREKKA 20060802 2100-2300
1 LYNOTT PHIL Fatalistic attitude
2 LES RITA MITSOUKO La fille venue du froid
3 TAKAHASHI YUKIHIRO Mirrormanic
4 PUPPETMASTERS Artcreep
5 TENOR JIMI Mammon
6 BJÖRN TORSKE BIG BAND Ny lugg (kort bak/lang på sidan)
7 PAVAN Crank up
8 TALK TALK Happiness Is Easy
9 HARDCASTLE PAUL King tut
10 OYE ERLEND Ghost trains (instrumental)
11 SKATEBÅRD One thousand years of loneliness
12 ATMO / BRTSCHITSCH Around me
13 COMMON Go! (instru)
14 BEE GEES Children of the world
15 AYERS ROY Love Will Bring Ús Back Together
16 RUSHEN PATRICE Superstar
17 THE REDDINGS You can be a star
18 BARDEUX I love the bass (thee bass mix)
19 I:CUBE Tokyo uno
20 STIG DOGG FEAT MC HEPATIITTI Pilluja, pyllyjä, tissejä
21 UNITED FUTURE ORGANIZATION Dice For A Chance (Rough Diamond Mix)
22 DEAD KENNEDYS California Uber Alles
23 KOMPLEKSI Love Missile F1-11
24 DJ TARAL Ab ke saawan

PARANTOLA 20060729 1400-1600
1 TOLONEN JUKKA Aurora Borealis
2 SIMOLA SEIJA Tuo Onneton
3 LEINONEN VILLE Rakkaus on hellyyttä
4 HEINIVAHO MATTI Tunturin juurella
5 VALENTE CATERINA Malagueno
6 SLIM ALLAN 3 Bug Hunt
7 TIMMY THOMAS Why Can't We Live Together
8 RAUTAVAARA TAPIO Rööperin Reiska
9 VILLE LEINONEN & VALUMO Helmipuutarhan perhosia
10 KYTÄJÄ Muuttopäiviä
11 LUZ Un ano de amor
12 LOIRI VESA-MATTI Ei ole Kööpenhamina kuin ennen
13 PAUKKUMAISSI Maatilalle mennään
14 HEINONEN TAPIO Hyvää hyvää iltaa
15 KUUSUMUN PROFEETTA Häivähdys
16 KARI PEITSAMO JA ANKKULI Jaana S
17 TUOMARI NURMIO Valssi
18 ERNEST RANGLIN Surfin'
19 KARJALAINEN J. JA MUSTAT LASIT Tatsum tisal
20 THE FEENADES Theme from Leningrad
21 OCTOPUS SYNG We could be everywhere
22 THEM SHEPHERDS Ill Mustache
23 NASTY NARDO Lets get a room
24 KOMPLEKSI Spiders in the Sky
25 PRINCE The Word

MUSAREKKA MUSAREKKA 20060208 2100-2300
1 KESSU KEIJO Shanghai blues
2 KESKITALO JOOSE Kilpa-ajaja
3 PELTOLA MARKKU Menopeli
4 KARKKIAUTOMAATTI Ja kesä hiipuu hiljaa
5 BOWIE DAVID Cygnet committee
6 SOMERJOKI RAULI BADDING Kaaleppi Aaltonen
7 NIEMINEN & LITMANEN Tutankhamon
8 RÄTTÖ JA LEHTISALO Kulje suoraan pannuhuoneeseen ohittamatta
lähtöruutua
9 KYTÄJÄ Pato murtuu, metsissä tuulee
10 CHAINSMOKER Kongo
11 RIUKUPASTORI Tienoo
12 AKSU 10 EURON SETELI
13 KOMPLEKSI (I AINT NO) LOVECHILD
14 TORINKULMA Rajuilma raastaa
15 MARKO HAAVISTO & POUTAHAUKAT Kahden viikon mies
16 MALCOLM KAKSOIS & HIS KAKABOLICA KAKOPHONIA Helsinki Tram ride
17 KITAJIMA OSAMU Benzaiten
18 PLASTIC BERNARD Tout petit la planete
19 TAKAHASHI YUKIHIRO Bijin kyoshi at the swimmingpool
20 NACHT UND NEBEL Everything is white
21 CLASSIX NOUVEAUX Every home should have one
22 LEVEL 42 Something about you
23 HUMAN LEAGUE The sound of the crowd ( Instrumental )
24 TWO LONE SWORDSMEN The lurch
25 GUIGNAT BENOIT ....

Kaukolampi Timo 20050720 1700-1900
1 FOUR TET No More Mosquitoes
2 KANABIS THE EDIT ASSASIN Walk under a full moons light
3 STEVENS CAT Was dog a doughnut
4 ZODIAC Pacific
5 FUN FUN Happy station
6 KANO Holly dolly
7 UNIVERSAL ROBOT BAND Barely breaking even
8 PARRIS MITCHHELL The Worm
9 TUOMO ILARI PURANEN Diga dab
10 J.O.Y. Sunplus (dfa version)
11 KORNIQ CYLINDERS Carousel
12 COMTRON Evil OS(tm)
13 TWO LONE SWORDSMEN Formica fuego
14 HOME VIDEO Citizen
15 KOMPLEKSI Lal lal lal
16 TRIO TETRIS John Deree - Astronaut
17 THE GAY MC Boys
18 TOTALLY MIX 2003 By annie & disko-timppa

Musasalama 20050203 1900-2100
1 PLAIN RIDE Funeral House
2 LOW California
3 GIANT SAND Les Forçats Innocents
4 NASTASIA NINA Too Much In Between
5 IRON & WINE Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
6 RED RED MEAT Sad Cadillac
7 PHANTOM BUFFALO Anywhere With Oxygen
8 FIERY FURNACES Here Comes The Summer
9 GRANADA Drinking Problem
10 HELLSTRÖM HÅKAN Min Huckleberry Vän
11 THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY Up For Sale
12 THERMALS How We Know
13 AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Let It Dive
14 BLOC PARTY Tulips (Club Version)
15 KILLS The Good Ones (Jagz Kooner remix)
16 MONEYBROTHER They're Building Walls Around Us (Spånka NKPG Re-Mix)
17 FISCHERSPOONER We Need A War
18 KOMPLEKSI The Only Star In My Sky (Tampere Remix)
19 OVALI VIRTA Outsider
20 KNIFE Manhood
21 KOKEELLISEN ELEKTRONIIKAN SEURA Morlokkimusiikkia
22 KONTACKTO Markuksen laulu
23 DAMNED Take That
24 KILLERS Mr Brightside
25 AMBULANCE LTD Heavy Lifting
26 M83 I Guess I'm Floating
27 M83 Teen Angst

Levylaukku - Saku Kiviharju 20040806 0900-1100
1 KOMPLEKSI Moscow 1980
2 EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY A Poor Man's Memory
3 FUN Big Lies
4 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Mic Check
5 INTERPOL Obstacle 1
6 IDAHO Drive It
7 UNREST Loyola
8 GUIDED BY VOICES The Main Street Wizards
9 COLTRANE ALICE Blue Nile
10 BROADCAST Papercuts
11 BIG BLACK Kerosene
12 TINDERSTICKS Talk To Me
13 ECHO IS YOUR LOVE A Song For Sea Scouts
14 YO LA TENGO Deeper Into Movies
15 CIRCLE The Presence Of Epileptics
16 DEEP TURTLE Pesadilla
17 MAGYAR POSSE 7
18 KEUHKOT Siitinjulistus

The Genius of Kenny Everett!

Opening credits to a typical Kenny Everett episode

Kenny Everett (1944-1995) was a British madcap TV comedian who came into prominence in the 60s as a radio DJ. His Kenny Everett Video Show / Video Cassette was shown here in Finland in the early 1980s as Videoviihdettä. Featuring the hilarious Captain Kremmen sci-fi parody animations and such memorable characters played by Kenny Everett himself as Cupid Stunt (below) and Sid the Snot, this show with its combination of some wacky post-punk era anarchism, snazzy graphics & Pythonesque animations, contemporary pop culture (such people as David Bowie performed there) and lots of conservatives-scaring sexual innuendo (Everett's irreverent sketches and the steamy performances of Hot Gossip dance troupe) remains in my memories alongside even Monty Python's Flying Circus. Show some reruns, please!




More Kenny Everett search results @ YouTube

Also the risque dance troupe Hot Gossip was a mainstay at Kenny Everett's shows:


Hot Gossip and 'Sleazy' (performer not mentioned)


Hot Gossip and Flying Lizards' 'Money'


Hot Gossip and Blondie's 'The Hardest Part'


Hot Gossip and 'Hot Pink Coat'

More Hot Gossip search results @ YouTube

Ursula Martinez: Is It Performance Art, Comedy, Stage Magic or Strip Tease?

You've probably never seen anything like this...
Watch one example of Ursula Martinez stage shows here (erm, so I suppose it is not suitable for children).

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From her own site:

Ursula Martinez is a London-based writer and performer. She has worked with several leading British experimental theatre companies including Forced Entertainment, Insomniac Productions, The Glee Club, and Duckie, with whom she is an associate artist.

10 years ago Martinez began working as a solo artist on the queer club/cabaret circuit where she soon achieved cult status.

"She sets fire to her tits, interrogates her parents, re-defines class, blurs fiction with reality, cures homosexuals, gives birth to penises, tells autobiographical stories, deconstructs performance and sings South London suburban flamenco - from high brow to low brow, from spectacle to confessional, from live art to light entertainment, Ursula Martinez produces solo and collaborative performance for theatre, site-specific, installation, cabaret, night club, film, television... birthdays, weddings and Barmitzvahs!"

Ursula Martinez @ BBC Arts