Country Ghetto is roots blues rock with a touch of soul funk straight from Louisiana. The music is like Dr John singing in the Creedence Clearwater Revival with Stax / Volt horns. JJ Grey outstands as an original songwriter, singing for the poor. It is a laid back and melodic album that ends up hitting […]
Wille's voice is clean and catchy, and the band sounds great for being a promo album. Lyrics are well worked, and there is this essence of glamorous hard-rock from the 80's mixed with love tales that for sure will make the band popular among the female public. As highlighted tracks to listen, I would choose […]
Once you start with the tracks, one must recognize that his voice evolves you in this traditional spirit of sadness and melancholy that feature so many native bands in Finland. In any case, the guys from Hämeenlinnä sound like a compact and talented band in their debut album Pelkuri, that is also the name of […]
Having no boundaries at all at expressing his personal opinions, convinced Communist until the end, and atheist, Saramago has provoked polemic and admiration towards his creativity and integrity, plus he was unanimously considered a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize. During his intervention in Helsinki, he pinpointed the fact of having a break in his […]
This year Eastern and Western Christianity are united with the occurrence of Easter on April 8th allowing a joint observation of the festival by both camps. As many of you are surely aware, Easter signifies the day that Jesus Christ died for man’s sins, but as a non-Christian and lacking the skills of a theologian […]
In 1953, geologist Väinö Auer returned to Finland from Argentina, the land where he made most of his expeditions and discoveries. At that time, he was already very pessimistic about how technological progress and modern life were affecting nature and climate. It was 25 years since his first trip to Tierra del Fuego. Väinö Auer […]
There is more than just great wind and surfing on the island of Hispaniola. The Dominican Republic was the first European settlement in the New World, founded by Columbus in the early 1600s. Nowadays, the Caribbean is a popular destination for all kinds of travellers, including sailors from all over the world. And no wonder: […]
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The Jade groove
The four members of the group started their musical careers more than ten years ago, but the story of The Jade began in spring 2004. During their many years in London, Pekko and Jann had played together in different projects, and once they landed back in Helsinki they got to know Wille, who became a […]
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The age of the animal in Ateneum
The works are by almost two hundred artists, mostly Finnish ones. The pieces, from the 16th century up to the present, have mainly been provided by the Finnish National Gallery. The various themes in the exhibition illustrate how the roles of animals have changed over the centuries. Pay special attention to Gallen Kallela’s and Ferdinand […]
Pekka Jylhä, who made his debut in Vaasa 1984, is one of the most important Finnish sculptors. In addition to several exhibitions, he has become known through his many public art works. One of them is Spring (Lähde), a monument built in memory of the late president Urho Kekkonen, was unveiled in Hakasalmi park, Helsinki […]
French artist Achdé has been responsible for the Lucky Luke adventures since the death of Morris in 2001. Joakim Pirinen, from Sweden, is an artist well known among hardcore comic lovers, who became popular in 1985 with Sugar-Conny, a graphic novel about an anarchistic borderline personality. Some of the Finnish names at Kuplii are Kari […]
The main character in The First Book of Hope is seemingly an ordinary Finnish middle-aged man: a little bit overweight and slightly balding. His name is never mentioned and we do not know where this story takes place. Clearly we are dealing with an allegory, and our main character (actually the only person in this […]
When did you publish your first comic? When I was 13 years old, I self-published a 50-paged album. It was an adventure influenced by Asterix, Corto Maltese and Indiana Jones. Favourite place to draw, meaning where do you feel more comfortable and concentrated to work? I like to draw in cafés drinking coffee and smoking […]
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Streching the limits
Pohjonen started his career at a very early age: at 8 he was already playing folk music. After classical and folk music studies at the Sibelius Academy, he spent time in Tanzania and Argentina, studying with local musicians. His musical history now spans over twenty years and in genres as diverse as avant-garde, folk, improvisation, […]
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman and Cecil B. DeMille are some of the film directors who never won the Best Director Academy Award, and it seemed Martin Scorsese was to follow that black list after five nominations. All of his generation mates had won the award: Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg, but in […]