Villa Nah: VN EP (Keys of Life/Sähkö Recordings)

Keys of Life, a sublabel of Helsinki's Sähkö Recordings announces a new release by Villa Nah, an electronic duo by of Juho Paalosmaa and Tomi Hyyppä; comparing them to such early-80s synthpop luminaries as Heaven 17 and New Order. Also Jori Hulkkonen lends his production skills. More info at press releases notes @ Sähkö Recordings.

Artist: Villa Nah
Title: VN EP
Format: 12"/CD/digital download
Label: Keys of Life/Sähkö Recordings (Finland)
Cat.no.: LIFE-18
Date: April 2009

Tracklist:

A. Ways To Be
B1. Envelope
B2. Daylight

Credits:

All songs written & produced by Villa Nah.
Co-produced by Jori Hulkkonen.
Mixed by Villa Nah & Jori Hulkkonen @ alppIVhouz, 2009.
Mastered by Pete Salone @ Silencio.
Graphic design by Antti Uotila.

Villa Nah will appear this Satuday at Vanha Yo-Talo (the Old Student House) in Helsinki:

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IHME Club: Op:l Bastards, Villa Nah, Association of Experimental Electronics & DJ Esko Routamaa

9 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Saturday night, 4 April.

The club takes place in the Bar of the Old Student House (Helsinki) and features a rare performance from the pioneer of Finnish electronic music, Op:l Bastards - who made an impressive return at the 2007 Flow Festival - as well as the retro-tinged, warm synth electro of the duo Villa Nah. DJ Esko Routamaa will be spinning records during the night.

In addition to the live music and the DJ, the IHME Club programme includes a visual dimension in the form of a cross-artistic performance executed by the Association of experimental electronics, who create musical machines from electronic junk and walk the tightrope between chaos and order. The IHME Club programme is designed by the artist Tommi Grönlund, the founder of the record label Sähkö Recordings.

Admission to the IHME Club is free. Tickets are limited - ensure your admission to the club by picking up your tickets beforehand between 30 March and 3 April at the location of Antony Gormley´s Clay and the Collective Body; the Kaisaniemi field, Kaisaniementie street 1-3. Once the IHME Days are underway on Friday, 3 April, tickets can be collected at the information desk of the Old Student House. Two tickets per person.
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Keys of Life @ pHinnWeb (not updated)

Jimi Tenor: 4th Dimension

Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu @ All About Freedom Festival - 11.11. 2008 Part 1

[the rest @ MadMaxGD YouTube channel]



Jimi Tenor has a new album out. Press release notes:

Finland's Jimi Tenor, a musician, composer and arranger known to constantly reinvent himself, has finished work on his latest album 4th Dimension, on which he continues his exploration of Afrobeat music. The album also sees him reunite with Kabu Kabu, a group of West African musicians based in Germany, who debuted on Tenor's 2007 album Joystone.

4th Dimension's Afrobeat is highlighted with Tenor's jazzy, bohemian touches and ability to write irresistible tunes. Tenor's catchy-yet-challeng ing arrangements are reminiscent of the legendary Fela Kuti, and perhaps one can also sense the influence of the likes of Lalo Schifrin, Charlie Mingus and Sun Ra. Tenor's trademark high-pitched vocals are heard less this time around as the maestro concentrates on tooting his tenor sax, playing the flute and synth.

The album's first single "Mystery Spot" is uplifting and uptempo Afrobeat. "Global Party" starts out moody but builds into a frenzied Disco groove. "Grind!" and "Me I Say Yes" are perhaps the album's most traditional Afro-inspired songs with their loping basslines and heavy percussion.

"Mogadishu Ave." is a surprise number of Goblin-esque psychedelic prog rock. "Mega Roots" and "Fast Legs" are lo-fi percussion jams similar to the African field recordings released by legendary labels Folkways and Ocora.

4th Dimension, yet another superb album by Jimi Tenor, is available at your local record store, or for mail order and immediate digital download at http://www.sahkorecordings.com/puu-35.php.

The official Jimi Tenor site

Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu: 'Mystery Spot'/'Black January' 7"

Artist: Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu
Title: Mystery Spot/Black January
Cat.no: SAHCO-002
Date: September 2008

Jimi Tenor has a new 7" out on Sähkö Recordings' sub-label Sahco, again as a collobaration with Kabu Kabu (who already collaborated with Jimi on Joystone album of 2007), representing the bespectacled Finn maestro's current Afrobeat funk style. From the forthcoming album 4th Dimension.

Info & sound sample @ Sähkö Recordings official site

(Furthermore, Sähkö informs that the latest album from Ø a.k.a. Mika Vainio, Oleva, is now also available digitally: http://www.sahkorecordings.com/sahko-023.php.)

Ø (Mika Vainio): Oleva

Helsinki's Sähkö Recordings announces a new Ø (pronounced "Ohm") album, called Oleva ("The Existing"), from Mika Vainio (Pan sonic); somewhat surprisingly including a cover version of 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' (note: the track is credited on the sleeve as "Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun"), a track from Pink Floyd's second album Saucerful of Secrets (1968)!

Cat.no.: SÄHKÖ-023
Artist: Ø
Title: Oleva
Format: 2x12"/CD
Release date: July 2008
Produced by: Mika Vainio

Tracklist:

1. Unien holvit
2. S-bahn
3. Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun
4. Frekvenssi
5. Loihdittu
6. Vastus
7. U-bahn
8. Koituva
9. Mojave
10. Tasanko
11. Kausaaliton
12. Muistetun palaava taajuus

Credits:

All tracks by Mika Vainio except 3 by Roger Waters
Recorded in Berlin 2007-2008
Photographs by Mika Vainio
Graphics by Tommi Grönlund
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering
Cut by Rashad Becker at D&M

Info @ Sähkö Recordings

Reviews:

The Silent Ballet

NSI. Plays Non Standards.

A new Sähkö Recordings release...

Artist: NSI (Non Standard Institute)
Title: Plays Non Standards
Format: CD
Cat.no: SÄHKÖ-022
Date: October 2007

Tracklist:
(23 untitled piano pieces)

Press release info:

Non Standard Institute
Plays Non Standards

Non Standard Institute is a piano drone project by sound engineers Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Tobias Freund (Pink Elln, Sieg Üeber Die Sonne), both prominent techno producers whose careers date back the mid-1980s.

Compared to their earlier work in, Plays Non Standards is an exploration into a completely different direction. The music is based on the sounds of the grand piano played by Loderbauer and the subtle electronic "treatments" by Freund, with the help of vintage Roland DEP-5 and Roland TR-808 machines.

Very minimalistic and Spartan, yet rich in its attention to detail and sound, Plays Non Standards is a soundwork in the tradition of Brian Eno's Music For Airports. Yet, the music produced by Non Standard Institute is fully improvised, with "mistakes" being a vital part of their ambient experience.

Recorded over a two-year period in Berlin, Plays Non Standards does an outstanding job in blurring the line between modern acoustic piano music and the more philosophical end of electronic music.

Info & sound samples @ Sähkö Recordings

Entry @ Discogs

Sähkö Recordings: official site

Sähkö Recordings @ pHinnWeb

Latino Retro with Odj TG @ Nolla, Helsinki

Ke 29.8. NOLLAssa
Odj TG soittaa Brasiliasta ja latinalaisesta Amerikasta kovalla vaivalla roudattuja lattarivinyylejä 60-70-luvuilta: bossanovaa, jazzia, salsaa... välillä vähän progempaa.

Wed 29 Aug @ NOLLA, Helsinki
Odj TG (Sähkö Recordings) plays 60s and 70s Latino vinyls brought with some considerable trouble directly from Brazil and South America: bossanova, jazz, salsa... occasionally also something a bit more prog.

http://www.lifesaver.net/keskustelut/read.php?f=7&i=19493&t=19493

tai jos et pääse niin kuuntele tosta:
or if you can't make it, then listen here:
http://www.sahkorecordings.com/mix_tg_brazil_pt1.php

BISTRO NOLLA
Fredrikinkatu 56
Helsinki
¡0 € como siempre!

http://www.sahkorecordings.com

http://www.gronlund-nisunen.com

Ø: Ikuinen 12" (Sähkö Recordings)

Finland's Sähkö Recordings announces that the new 12" by Ø (pronounced "ohm") a.k.a. Mika Vainio of Pan sonic, called Ikuinen ("Eternal"), is out now.

Artist: Ø
Title: Ikuinen
Format: 12" (45 rpm)
Cat.No: SÄHKÖ-021
Date: July 2007

tracklist:

A: Ikuinen
B: Ikuinen - Version

Info & sound samples @ Sähkö Recordings

Jimi Tenor's New Album, Joystone

Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu: 'Sunrise' (2007)



Jimi Tenor -- that legendary Finnish combination of Sun Ra, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, Prince and Brains of Thunderbirds -- will have a new album out soon, as a joint release of Californian Ubiquity Records and Finland's Sähkö Recordings.

Artist: Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu
Title: Joystone
Format: CD/LP
Label: Ubiquity Records/Sähkö Recordings
Cat.No: URCD/LP210
Date: 24 April 2007

Tracklisting:
01. Anywhere, Anytime
02. Green Grass
03. I Wanna Hook Up...
04. Hot Baby
05. Bedroom Eyes
06. Hermetic Man
07. Love Is The Only God
08. Ariane
09. Smoking
10. Horror Water
11. Sunrise
12. Dede

Press Release:
"Joystone is the latest musical excursion by the ever-inventive arranger, composer and musician Jimi Tenor. On Joystone the super-eccentric Finn teams up with Kabu Kabu, a trio of West-African musicians and ex-Fela Kuti sidemen lead by Nicholas Addo Nettey. The result is an exceptionally unique and inspired album that joins the dots between dance music, Afrobeat, funk, and pop."

"Despite its cosmic overtones, Joystone was conceived in Tenor's tiny garage in the city of Lahti in Finland and recorded, mixed and produced entirely by Didier Selin in Helsinki. Selin is the mastermind behind the award winning 2006 album Keep Reachin' Up by Tenor's wife Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators. Adding spice are the leading players in the budding Finnish jazz scene including trumpeter Jukka Eskola and saxophonist Timo Lassy. The resulting mash of Scandinavian jazz and polyrhythmic Afro-Beat and Funk is reminiscent of legendary Euro-eccentrics Marc Moulin and Placebo. However, it is Tenor's captivating melodies, quirky humor, and genre-defying playfulness that are at the forefront of Joystone."

"On 'Sunrise', for which there is a video of Tenor and band running around a forest, he murmurs his sources of inspiration: 'Sunrise oh sunrise, my favorite time of the day. I wake up, make some coffee. Look at the garden and start making some music. Everyday pretty much the same, and yet so different'. 'Hermetic Man' is classic Tenor with loping melodic passages and subtle hints of 1970's prog jazz. The sly spacey funk of 'Smoking' contrasts the playful uptempo 'I Wanna Hook Up With You', and the album closes with 'Dede', a cinematic 7-minute opus showcasing the halkofon, a one-of-a-kind instrument invented and built by Tenor from sticks of wood used to heat up the Finnish sauna.

Jimi Tenor, was born as Lassi Lehto. His band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans released it's first album in 1988, with Tenor's first solo album dropping in 1994 and delivering 'Take Me Baby', his first big hit. He has released albums on Sähkö Recordings, Warp Records and the Kitty-Yo label. He has recorded with a 55-piece Polish Orchestra and most recently appeared on the Keep Reachin' Up album for his wife Nicole Willis. Curiously he has been called the 'Elton John of jazz' and the 'Barry White of Finland', but we like to think of this mad musical genius, having fun while searching for the missing link between Sun Ra and Fela Kuti. Joystone finds Jimi Tenor reuniting with the legendary Sähkö Recordings, the label that kickstarted his career back in 1994, and releasing through Ubiquity in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand."

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Also from jimitenor.com:

"A Jimi Tenor live album will soon be out on Kitty-Yo. The refreshingly spontaneous nature of Jimi Tenor's live performance is captured on Live in Berlin, recorded during the 'Beyond The Stars' tour on 27 May 2004 in Berlin's Club Maria. The album is released digitally on April 20."

Links:

The official Jimi Tenor site

Jimi Tenor @ MySpace

Jimi Tenor @ Discogs.com

Ubiquity Records

Sähkö Recordings

Jimi Tenor @ pHinnWeb
(not updated any more -- I guess it started to feel unnecessary to keep an unofficial site when more professionally maintained jimitenor.com came along.)

Jimi Tenor search results @ YouTube