Hannu Lehtoranta: lead vocals, flutes, madal, udu Markku Helin: electric guitar with devices (somewhere/anywhere) Pasi Santala: bass guitar & backing vocals Arde Kakko: drums, keyboards, guitar & backing vocals Samu Leminen: lead guitar
My Generation... Your Generation
PHIL ISTINE goes continental drifting to bring you the best underground European bands currently making a noise...
Let’s take a moment to relax over in Finland, courtesy of Mellow Taste. They have ingested experimental-era Beatles and raga-rock to come out the other side with only love and making sweet music on their minds. Gorgeous flute passages float by over gently rocking guitars, with a liberal does of sitar and string samples in the background. The lyrics are so surreal you could hear them one thousand times and still be none the wiser. If only more people made such unselfconsciously wondrous music. Mellow Taste make bonkers pop-psych for the cognoscenti (i.e. you lot).
Phil Istine
Shingid
Dec 2008
“Tantric Love”
This is the pick that most everyone will hate, but I dig the bizarre culture clash of young Finns channeling psychedelic-era Beatles, and ending up as a Scandinavian version of the Lightning Seeds.
The guitar-lite instrumentation is appropriately spacey—check out the wah spittle buried in the mix—and the track is a feel-good riot.
Greetings, Thanks for your friendship. Our only mission on MySpace is for people to enjoy what we've created. We have no expectations of ever being rock stars. We just want to brighten up the corner where we live .Please let us know if our mission has been accomplished. Regards, Griff Kinsey
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I came across some stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, the fundamentals are still relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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Hi and many thanks for the add from the world's smallest prog/psych label - Fruit de Mer Records. Hope you and your friends enjoy our new (ok, our only) single - Small Faces' Ogden's meets Van der Graaf Generator's Theme One - playing now at www. myspace. com/fdmer & www. myspace. com/fdmer2 (for full stereo effect). Views, reviews, ideas for future releases all gratefully received, not to mention the odd order - we've only pressed up 300 on cool green vinyl, and we're getting some great reviews (well, we think they're great anyway)
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