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+ Thursday 23
12.00pm: Sami/ES on Rough Trade radio show on Resonance FM Counter Culture Radio
5.00pm: ES, ISLAJA and KILLA (acoustic trio) @ Rough Trade Records shop Instore at NEAL's YARD
7.00pm: ES, ISLAJA and KIILA @ ResonanceFM CLEAR SPOT

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LONDON [NO.SIGNAL] @ ST GILES IN THE FIELD
FRIDAY 24 MARCH 2006

[no.signal] presents - with the kind support of the Finnish Cultural Institute in London

FONAL Records: 'The Cradle of the Finnish Underground' with:

+ ES [fi]
+ ISLAJA [fi]
+ KIILA [fi]

St Giles-in-the-Fields
60 St Giles High Street (off Denmark St.)
Tube: Tottenham Ct Rd
Buses: 1,25,38,55,149,242

Tickets: £7 in adv. here (w/ complimentary drink) / £9 on the door
Notes: Max Capacity is 200
Various Info: email us here

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"Via a Network of autonomous spaces and arcadian outposts located in and around Finland's major cities, a new generation of musicians has emerged to fuse the DIY aesthetic with traditional folk forms and the liberation theology of noise and improvisation."
The Wire magazine
'Squaring the Circle: the Finnish Underground' (12.04)

[Fonal in London]

Blossoming in the cold soil of Finland's Tampere since 1995, FONAL has clearly set standards in the underground/independent musical realm of the most recent year. ES, ISLAJA and KIILA will be inaugurating their European Spring tour at St Giles-in-the-Fields, a Parish church in the heart of London's West End built in the Palladian style in 1734 (find out more about St Giles here)
At the heart of the 'new weird Finlandia' movement, Sami, Marja and their 5 friends will envade the acoustic of the Church with their unique and enchanting warmth which as the tone of the current contemporary Finnish Free-Folk aesthetic. This will be their first appearance in London.

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+ 7.00: refreshments & Fonal Records presentation
+ 7.45: (overture) Baroque - modern small chamber pieces
+ 8.00: KIILA
+ 8.45: (classical interlude#1) Impressionist - folk based chamber and orchestral works
+ 9.00: ISLAJA
+ 9.45: (classical interlude#2) Grand, expansive works from Wagner to now
+ 10.00: ES
+ 11.00: (closing) Farewell and good night
+ 11.15: Church closes


Note: there will be no smoking nor drinking inside the church. Since it will be the first Friday of Spring, we hope the weather will allow the use of the Church's garden.

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[Fonal and the Finnish weirdness]
Fonal

Fonal Records is a Finnish independent record label based in Tampere established by Sami Sänpäkkilä in 1995. The catalogue comprises around 40 releases shifting from ambient, experimental, 'naive pop' to semi-acoustic psychedelic folk with artists including Kemialliset Ystävät, Avarus and Paavoharju. Fonal maintains a strong DIY ethos and aesthetic of being "small and warm" which sees Sänpäkkilä involved in audio engineering, web design, film making and mostly, the Fonal artwork, a rigourously designed three-panel cardboard cover with a black paper seal along with the logo with its braille translation. Fonal is clearly on a road on its own with a unique sense of belonging.

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