October 30, 2011 - PIKNIK & COSMOPOLITAN SIDESHOW

New Fiasko releases!

Gourmet releases the new album Cosmopolitan Sideshow on November 7, 2011. To promote their third album Gourmet is going to tour in Finland, Estonia, Belgium and The Netherlands in November and December (see gigs). The album will be available in digital format at Equal Dreams, iTunes and Amazon etc. The CD will be initially available at gigs and from Digelius and eventually also from other retailers such as CD Baby.

"There's a strong onomatopoeic element to HIK's PIKNIK. That title is to a large degree what the music sounds like. It has sharp edges and takes 90-degree turns. In its immediacy, this music sounds like recording took less time than listening to it does. This work consists of what would constitute flotsam and jetsam or even technical issues in some other musical production process. Halme, Innanen and Korpipää are dealers in waste by-product, recyclers of sound and the artful dodgers of accident. The clonk of saxophone fingerings when no wind blows into the wood, the slightly panicked yelp of the reed, a software suite going through an existential crisis... Most times these are equalized out of existence, overdubbed with the "correct" notes or bug-fixed posthaste. Not here. The Halme-Innanen-Korpipää trio turn them into some kind of post- or maybe even pre-industrial postcard, 0:26 - 6:05 at a time." -Arttu Tolonen

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November 26, 2009 - TWO NEW RELEASES

Fiasko Records is proud to present two brand new releases:

Mikko Innanen and Mika Kallio have released a sequel to their critically acclaimed debut Scratch - now it's time for some Silence.

PLOP, a trio of veteran Fiasko recording artist Mikko Innanen and two label debutants Ville Herrala and Joonas Riippa, offer An sich as an introduction to the curious world of PLOP.

See news archive.