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Whatmusic presents ‘Talk Less Listen More’, live instrumentation, solid beats, authentic nu-soul. Liner notes by Gilles Peterson: "Keep an eye on them, they're going places!"
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Quintessential listening!
I’ve always wondered what it was about Finland, it’s the smallest country in Scandinavia but it has a terrific history of folk music. Even going back to my first days as a jazz DJ, my favourite record was an album by Olli Ahvenlahti called ‘The Poet’. I remember spending a lot of money back then on Finnish music and ever since I’ve always had a soft spot for anything Finnish. The first job I ever had where I got paid (I did a lot of pirate radio before that) was with John Peel on Radio Mafia (Finland). I was only 20 years old and it told me a lot about the interest in cutting edge music that there was coming out in Finland, we were constantly searching for stuff.
Now, in the last few years, apart from the club scene being strong there’s also been a movement making some great soul music and electronic jazz music fronted by people like Jimi Tenor and Nuspirit Helsinki; and some space/folk/progressive music from the likes of Kuusumun Profeetta (‘Moon Fog Prophet’), a wonderful band from Pori. Between them they are reinvigorating Finland’s reputation for producing great cutting edge sounds. The latest of these, Quintessence, first surprised me with their incredibly fine production and song writing ability, and I have been playing demos from them for ages. This is their first release in the UK of their album which has already been topping the charts in their native Finland, and it’s great to see that they’ve stuck together and that all those great demos have finally come to fruition on this album.
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