22-Pistepirkko
Pistepirkko - 22 is a Finnish rock-pop group which was founded in 1980. Your Name 22 - Pistepirkko is Finnish and means on German 22 - spot ladybird. Meanwhile, 22 - Pistepirkko produce their albums in English, the first album, however, were recorded in their own language.
History
The band consists of the brothers Asko (bass, keyboards) and PK Keränen (guitar, vocals) and her boyfriend aspen Haverinen (drums, vocals). It started as a punk band in Utajärvi, a village in northern Finland, under the name " Matti Mätä & SS ". 1982 the band won the competition of Rock Championship in Finland in 1983 and took their first EP on. The first LP Piano, rumpu yes kukka ( in German: piano, drum and flower) was completed in 1984 and is strong of 22- Pistepirkkos former model band The Velvet Underground influenced.
Initial successes they celebrated with her first English album, The Kings Of Hong Kong, which Riku Mattila produced. Two years later, they succeeded with Bare Bone Nest international breakthrough. The album is very blue -heavy and also influences from country music. Among other things, they played at the Roskilde Festival and the Rennes Trans musical.
In 1992, Big Lupu. The larger budget and the addition of studio musicians, the album was very experimental. Birdy and Do not Say I'm So Evil were released as singles and had sales success.
Rumble City, Lala Land (1995 ) integrated elements of electronic music and hip -hop. 1997 appeared zip code, a remix album that has multiple artists have their pieces assumptions. Eleven on the chosen path was continued. The album contains a number of samples and loops and moving ever further away. From its original orientation of the band Eleven (1998) also achieved in the German Alternative Charts Course 4 The Song Onion Soup is another international success for the band.
In 1999, 22 - Pistepirkko involved in the soundtrack to the film Downhill City. The band delivered on a cross-section of her career. So the soundtrack includes both rock and electronic sounds. The follow-up album Eleven was released in 2001 under the name Rally of Love and is almost entirely created with a sequencer. 22 - Pistepirkko going to release on a two-year tour. After the band for a long hiatus decided. Stop or keep going up for debate. It went on.
During this time they are playing under the name of " The Others " mainly cover versions, but the band also use to test " 22 - Pistepirkko " songs. With this project, the members of the band took on a 2006 released album called Monochromeset containing exclusively cover songs.
According to its website created by 2005 18 songs. These were produced by Kalle Gustafsson, bassist of the band The Soundtrack Of Our Lives. Fifteen of the pieces published as an album under the name Drops & Kicks. The electronic elements have been lightened and the album sounded again overall rockier.
The song was later Birdy ( as a cover version entitled Pöpi ) one of the hits of the Finnish Humppaband Eläkeläiset.
Your own recording studio " Bare Bones Studios " had the sound wizard since the 1990s. Mid-2000s they also founded their own label " Bone Voyage Recording Company ".