We continue our five years celebration introductions today with Midstride Crisis.
Komitea 5 years: Rane & Co.
We continue our five years celebration introductions today with Rane & Co. (The video is in Finnish.)
Komitea 5 years: Veljekset Perse
Veljekset Perse (“Brothers in Arse”) is one of the 17 artists participating on our five year celebration album “Summary: The First Five-Year Plan 2016–2021”. (The video is in Finnish.)
The compilation will be released as a cd on 1st of October, and on 29th of October you’ll find it on digital music platforms as well. You’re also warmly welcome to our birthday party gala night, held on 30th of October in Turku at Utopia Club.
In 2021, Turku celebrates the tenth anniversary of the city’s year as the European Capital of Culture. The gala night and the compilation are part of the anniversary program.
Midstride Crisis travels in time and space
Mikko Väärälä – also known for his other Komitea connections as the percussionist of Princes of Nigeria and the drummer of Zaquatic – debuts as a Komitea solo artist with his cinematically atmospheric project, Midstride Crisis. The ep A Small Chronicle of Times and Spaces does exactly what the title promises, and dives deeps into very scifi-esque themes. The soundscape takes a bow to prog rock traditions, while simultaneously mixing them with modern – or should we say prefuturistic – electronic music influences.
Despite of the epic sound, Midstride Crisis is a one-man band. With the exception of the violin sample heard on the song Run All Your Life, all the instruments are played by Mikko. He is also responsible for compositions, lyrics, arrangements, recording, mixing, mastering, cover design and vocals.
You can listen to the record on every digital music platform invented by human kind – and of course right here:
Komitea was interviewed by Turun Sanomat (again)
Turun Sanomat dropped by to interview Aino, Japi and Lawrence – who is going to debut as a Komitea artist on our upcoming compilation.
Topics included the plight of marginal musicians, the grant we got recently, and of course the upcoming compilaction cd, celebrating our first five-year plan.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, pants were torn.
Kick off your summer with some afrorock!
Turku-Beninese afrorock band Zaquatic joins the laid-back Komitea posse with their tightly grooving single Takin. Akim Color, who sings and plays bass in the band, is known as a manifold afro music guru.
You’ll find the single on all the well-equipped digital music services. And of course from below.
Strictly speaking the band’s style is called afrozota, which is a fusion of afrorock and afroblues.
Mara Balls gig added to the archive
Mara Balls blessed us with a chilled-out semi-acoustic gig at the Komitea Club in Pikku-Torre, Turku, back in February 2019.
Jani & Kasper at Portti in November 2017
Our crusade to conquer the mountain of piled Komitea Club recordings continues with very Turku-flavored folk. Jani & Kasper visited our club during the very first autumn season. At the time Komitea Club still was running at Portti. Jani & Kapser played bittersweet songs from the side streets of life, so to speak.
Disgrace’s Komitea Club gig added to the archive
We continue our epic dig through Komitea Club gig recording mountain. Today the archive was grown by one more video, this time by Disgrace’s gig in Pikku-Torre on 8th of December 2018. Rokkenroll vill nevö dai!
In other noews: We hope you noticed that Towel Day is approaching inevitably like a sack of bricks is not approaching? You can prepare to the festivities by reading daily picks from the harvest of last year’s Vogon poetry at the Finnish Towel Day site or by watching the recording of 2020 Towel Day live stream from Cosmic Comic Cafe, Turku.
Rane & Co. opened Komitea’s artist web site project
Our brisk association will turn five years in November! We have all kinds of pompous plans related to that. We will announce more about them later. All in all, this year we are trying hard to raise our profile.
As part of this scheme we’ll build a website for all the Komitea artists still lacking one. Komitea takes care of the design, and the hosting is provided by Turku-based Pilvia. They very kindly started sponsoring our association.
The website crunch was opened by Rane & Co, who by the way are currently finishing up their upcoming ep. Alas, you can now read more about it on their brand new website!
Towards the five year birthday and beyond!