Photo: Tiina Jutila
Janne Westerlund / vocals, guitar Pekka Jääskeläinen / bass Juho Viljanen / drums, trombone Julius Jääskeläinen / guitar, keyboards
Plain Ride is a Finnish band, led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Janne Westerlund, also known from Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Chainsmoker, and Sweetheart.
The music of Plain Ride is neither traditional nor avant-garde.
There is present a distinct love for American music, for Folk, Country, and the Blues. There is the hypno-psychedelic Krautrock sensibility. There are the arranged moments and there are the improvised moments. There are a lot of other things.
The choice of idiom - genre, style, influences, etc - is circumstantial, meaningless in itself. First and last, there is the need to communicate, by whatever means happen to be at hand. The need to dance, to play, to sing.
PS: We just give you the link to the iTunes store above as we hate long link lists. But the songs are also available on AmazonMP3.com, musicload.de etc.
