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    Posted: April 05 2009 at 03:58
Bits and pieces extracted from the Listening to now thread:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:

Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:


Great to see some appreciation for Piirpauke here, I just gave this album and their Metamorphosis live album a couple of spins last week. Gorgeous stuff at their best, definitely.



both Raff and I listened to that earlier today... great stuff Clap


Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

From what I've heard, I think they should be considered for addition, at least in Prog-Related. What's your opinion, Pekka?

I was extremely surprised to see that they're not in the 'archives already. They were a very big name in the Finnish experimental music scene in the 70s, not pure prog no, but I bet it was pretty progressive at the time to combine jazz and world music the way they did. So I say bring 'em on, at least for prog related Smile


So, Piirpauke is a band formed by multi-instrumentalist Sakari Kukko in 1974, combining jazz, traditional Finnish music and world music, adapting traditional songs in their jazzy style and writing original music in the same spirit. The first line-up was all Finnish but later often multi-national as members came and went. It's very difficult to find any info or even decent cover pics of most of their output, but at least their debut Piirpauke is a true classic album of Finnish experimental music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6v4WIh_jNc Here's their best known song, Konevitsan kirkonkellot (The Church Bells of Konevitsa - an old Carelian folk song about the chiming of the Konevitsa monastery bells on lake Ladoga).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piirpauke A pretty uninformative Wikipedia article
http://www.rockadillo.fi/piirpauke A crappy discography and a decent biography
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 04:16
I think they were suggested some time ago, but that didn't lead to anything.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50984&KW=piirpauke

I stand by what I said, not 100 % prog imo, but definitely worthy of being here.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 04:41
All for. Fits that hopeless (not the music but the name) Indo/raga subgenre, I guess.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 06:51
I heard them yesterday for the first time, in spite of all the time I lived in Finland, and was extremely impressed. Nowadays many acts blend jazz with world music, but these guys were doing that in the Seventies, and in a country that was still somewhat marginalised on the international music scene. They may not be 100% prog, but so are many other bands and artists included here, and this would definitely be a great addition.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 06:57
if an artist had to be 100%prog to be included...and also had the agreement of every soul on the forum... we would find our database here to be extremely limited hahhah
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 09:17
Glad to see they got more attention, i hope they will be added then Clap

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 10:03
Are we making "Indo/Raga" a de facto "world prog" now?  Where would Piirpauke be placed?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 14:25
I'm for inclusion , and as Raff said would definitely be a great additionThumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 14:35
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

if an artist had to be 100%prog to be included...and also had the agreement of every soul on the forum... we would find our database here to be extremely limited hahhah

I'm not disagreeing - I said yes, you know. D'uh! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2009 at 00:55
The first two Piirpauke albums worth investigate at least these two are prog in my ears, anyway they desearve to be here so I'm for in.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2009 at 01:38
Originally posted by b_olariu b_olariu wrote:

The first two Piirpauke albums worth investigate at least these two are prog in my ears, anyway they desearve to be here so I'm for in.
Sure, both are great and if you ask me i would suggest them for prog folk rather than indo/raga.
 
 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2009 at 14:10
As far I am concerned, this band should go straight to the RPI drawer just by looking at the beautiful album cover!!Emoticons
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2009 at 14:44
Any team looking into it? Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2009 at 15:01
some teams are a bit more active than others.... I'll drop a PM or two.. see if we can ring any interest in evaluating it.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2009 at 17:53
Well finally doing justice to my first thread!




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 27 2009 at 12:42
Are we going to add or not?




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:05
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

some teams are a bit more active than others.... I'll drop a PM or two.. see if we can ring any interest in evaluating it.  
Any luck with this so far?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2009 at 02:24
i think we have to be a bit patient, i am sure the band is being evaluatd and will be approved for addition soon, well at least i hope so....i have listened to their first in several times these last months

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 13:44
I was also on my way to review it. Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 14:33

^^

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