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The return of Multimediakonsultit and Kupittaa

In the noughties, Multimediakonsultit became known as an idiosyncratic labour music band making sarcastic songs about the life of IT workers. Now the band digs itself from the grave for a moment to release an album of previously unreleased music. The lp Sielujen teurastamolla (“At the slaughterhouse of souls”) will be released early next year, and Paheksun nuorisoa (“I resent the youth”) is the first single from it.

Paheksun nuorisoa is a generation song that makes further generation songs unnecessary. In the song, the youths of all eras are resented away at the same time. Both Kalle “Loiriplukari” Taivainen and Aino “Sanniplukari” Lehtovaara visit as guest singers. The second track on the single is a folk ballad completely alienated from the nature, Metsässä (“In the forest”).

Like Multimediakonsultit, also Kupittaa has activated itself after a long silence. But unlike their rehearsal room pals, Kupittaa is planning to continue from where they were after Kaikki laulut kertovat rakkaudesta (“All the songs tell about love”) got into radio playlist rotation over a decade ago. “The band was never disbanded, we just got tired”, told Kupittaa’s singer Ville Mättö recently in an interview with Turun Sanomat (in Finnish).

On the upcoming single Propagandaa (“Propaganda”), the band steers their sound towards harsher tones than before. More new Kupittaa songs will come out next year.

Both singles are digital, and they’re available on their release dates on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, YouTube Music and Tidal, among others. Kupittaa’s single will be released on 29th of November and the Multimediakonsultit single the next day, 30th of November.

You can add both singles already on your Spotify playlist. Preorder Propagandaa here, and Paheksun nuorisoa here.

The bands will throw a release gig together on Saturday 30th of November in Pikku-Torre, Turku, Yliopistonkatu 30. You are warmly welcome!

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Kaikki paitsi purjehdus on murhaa by Kivireki released

On their second ep after baptizing into acousticism, Kivireki attacks Turku Archipelago armed with a slaughter knife. Later there’s some axe waving, and dying in an ice hole. Chad is briefly visited too. Lasse Mårtenson would take offense, had the band not checked in as the number one fans of the late maestro. (That did not usually slow down his miff machine, though.)

Below you can listen to the ep on Spotify. Links to other music services available here.

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A cover version of Lost Highway from Trio Anuri

Trio Anuri’s cover single Mullan alle (originally Leon Payne’s Lost Highway, maybe better known by Hank Williams’ version) is finally live. Originally the song was supposed to be included on the Siperian Sheikki ep published earlier this year, but we had to leave it out since we couldn’t get a license from the current right holders, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia.

Or to be precise, the negotations hit a wall after the lead vocalist of Trio Anuri, Petri Ronimus received a completely incomprehensible mail from the corporation lawyers. And the guy is an English teacher by profession.

The taste of our bitter disappointment had somewhat diminished, when I stumbled upon a discussion thread at the February Album Writing Month site. There, SounDrop was mentioned as a service especially focused on licensing and distributing cover songs to the popular digital music services.

Just for the hell of it, we tried once more. I uploaded the track to SounDrop, paid nine euros – and then we waited how it would turn out. Less than a week later, the rights were cleared (to use the correct jargon speak), and Mullan alle was published. No coughing, no lawyer mumbo-jumbo, no problems. Maybe their lawyers wanted to speak only with other lawyers, and not with some bearded bohemians from a never-heard Western-Russian small town.

Whatever the reason, the main thing is of course that the song is now published.

This is also good news to Rane & Co, who’ve been recording several cover songs to their upcoming ep, in addition to their own material.

Here are the links to all the digital music services SounDrop supports:

In addition to these, the single is also distributed to Pandora, but it doesn’t seem to be live yet. Also, Pandora is not easily usable in Finland.

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Girls ❤️ Komitea!

Here’s the gender breakdown of our Spotify listeners from the last three months:

On the other hand, maybe we shouldn’t belittle them with words like that. Especially since the age group breakdown looks like this:

What exactly do gi– I mean grown women like? Why, the scream and rattle by the blackgrass messiahs of Kivireki, of course. Street country is hot, too:

Their enthusiasm over roar and racket has somewhat diminished since the end of December, though:

So, these were our Spotify streaming statistics of the last 90 days. A little bit of other digital music channels were used as well but a tigress’ share of our listeners grabbed their fix of Komitea releases specifically via Spotify.