This September 20th, 2013 sees the return of The New Tigers with 2nd album, The Badger (Soliti 017), on cd, vinyl and digital. To whet your appetite for the record listen to new single Remote Control.

UK release date for 'The Badger' December 2nd.


"After the first album The New Tigers played a huge amount of shows in Finland, Scandinavia and the UK, to name but a few places. World and elsewhere. New songs were cooking meanwhile, as was another thing: the line-up change. The beloved drummer Kece was drafted by the United Nations and moved to Geneva in Switzerland. The band found the right man to take his place in no time: Ville Hopponen, the lead guitarist of Cats on Fire is also one helluva drummer! On 'The Badger' the drummers' split duties – you get some of that guaranteed Tiger beat, as well as the new groovy drum stylings. 'The Badger' presents a new wider spectrum of songs. The first album was often compared to sitting next to a jet engine listening to a wonky Walkman. This time it’s more like a hydrocopter, or maybe an amphibious car. The music doesn’t operate only in the air, but also in water and on ice. Lots of glockenspiel was added to the musical soup, as well as different tempos, more varied guitar noodling and and a tiny tiny dash of sophistication."

www.thenewtigers.com/

NB: The image on the screen on the cover of Remote Control is from a movie called “Maledetta Primavera” by Elina Minn, which premieres 21th August in Turku (Vartiovuori Observatory), as part of the Antagon art event. http://a-aa-aa-a-antagon-gon-gon-gon-gon.com/

Remote Control

Blind Love a sweet pop song flirting with Hi-NRG, techno and retro Amiga chip tune soundscapes. Lead vocals and vocoders by the Finnish singer Teemu Hovila. You're the treble, I'm the bass, let's find a common pace. Licensed to Alphabet City for a single release in 2004.

Blind Love

Yacht Commander

Sax Commando

Keytar Hero

Football Dreams (Balls of Gold)

Naked in the Moonlight

Happy Man

Astrid Swan announces 20th anniversary reissue of debut album Poverina

Poverina 20th Anniversary Edition will be out in September 2025 as a limited edition CD - with a reinterpretation of the US album artwork by Varpu Eronen. The remaster will feature one unreleased track from the Poverina sessions - “Special Ones” - a song Swan revisited years later on the Teosto-palkinto winning album From The Bed and Beyond. The reissued album features a deep new remaster by Tuomas Salmela.

Astrid Swan tells about Poverina

Astrid Swan: Special Ones (Original Version)

"Waterphile gets its name from the actual word hydrophile, which means “a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
“For me this is a highly visual song. I see all kinds of water-related creatures here coming from different directions, I see a shoreline and the air/sky having almost a mint shade, the dark, deep water and the waterbed and the eerie silence of it, and me in the midst of it all.” 

"Waterphile" is both the opening track as well as the title track of Longing Louisa's debut album. 
"Waterphile" single is released on the 22nd August.