Sami Sänpäkkilä
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Elissa Määttänen, Suvi Mäkinen, Jan Anderzén, Jeffrey Alexander, Tara Burke, Miriam Goldberg, Ville Leinonen, Laura Laurila, Noora Tommila, Varpu Lehtomäki, Tomas Regan
Sami Sänpäkkilä aka Es lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician, film-maker and the head of Fonal Records. To date he has released five full lenght releases under the name Es. Sami has made short films and music videos which have been screened in various museums, art galleries and film festivals around the world. The films and the music are experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope.
Broken Ear is an online radio station, streamable online and playing wild and wonderful tunes for the more discerning music listener. This episode features an interview with Tim from Part Chimp! Check it out here:
Wed 23rd Sept at the CCA, Glasgow. Doors 8PM. £5. (tickets available from Monorail)
"Es (Fonal's head honcho) arrives from Finland's verdant psych pack, New York's all-systems/all-outcompassing Peeesseye splurge forth Chris Forsyth, and Ignatz (Kraak) appears to play his amazingly intense songs after seemingly undergoing some aural time travelling via an internship with some delta-blues players and the New Zealand no-fi scene."
Hey! Broken Ear is an ONLINE radio show dedicated to outsider and alternative music. You can listen to it anytime, anywhere as long as your on the 'net (which you must be now...) heres the link to the latest show: