We have hosted our music with the great service called Bandcamp.
There you can listen the songs, read lyrics and buy either downloads (from mp3 to full quality files) or order the cd. Recommended.

But this one for “Yritys erehdys” is excellent. Directed by Teemu Keskinen. Manages to capture song’s atmosphere quite perfectly:

Puumaja palaa estradeille uudistuneena. Seuraava keikka on 18.2. Tampereen rakkaassa Telakka-ravintolassa, jossa soitamme ruotsalaisen Immanu El -yhtyeen kanssa.

Keikasta tekee tavallista jännittävämmän se, että Puumaja esiintyy siellä nahkansa uusineena. Kun Nuutti kiertää maailmaa ja Timo keskittyy muihin bändeihinsä, nähdään Telakan lavalla jotain spesiaalia. Luvassa ainakin pari vierailevaa musikanttia ja sisällöltäänkin uudistunut settilista.

Puumaja will be playing in Tampere with swedish band Immanu El. Since Nuutti is touring the world and Timo is concentrating on his other bands, Puumaja will return with new glorious plans for the future. There will be guest musicians and special set list!

RUMBAn lukijaäänestys löytyy tuolta: www.rumba.fi/polli

Olis mahtavaa jos kaikki jaksais laittaa PUUMAJAn ainakin vuoden tulokas sarjaan (siis jos on sitä mieltä) ja kaikkia muita mahtavia kotimaisia bändejä ja julkaisuja kans. Oli tosi komea vuosi kotimaisessa musiikissa jälleen. Paljon hyviä palkintoja!

Kiitos ja kuulemiin!

Puumaja’s “Meriselityksiä” came 22. on music magazine Rumba’s annual poll voted by Rumba staff!

-Mikko

p.s. Esitäytin lomakkeen valmiiksi, eli ottakaa mallia:

Rumba vote

Here’s some highlights “translated” with the always reliable Google Translate:

The title of the Finnish Puumajas debut album, Meriselityksiä means something like ‘explanation of the sea’. Their slow, melodic and shoegazer post-rock can be understood, however, without having to explain – without leaving sins track in the listener’s northern interior.

Hmm…? The last sentence is cryptic…

It is incomprehensible to me Finland is both a mystical element – as is the case with Sigur Rós’ impromptu Icelandic / håblandske where the listener can sit back in a dream landscape tones and get lost in music, heather.

>I almost get that part…

Now I say melancholy, and it is also true that one may suspect a certain melancholy in the vocals Mikko Meriläinens introspective vocals, but it is really difficult to speak about when you do not understand a yelp of texts.

Yelp of texts, thats a nice concept…

Best is Puumaja However, when they come in from the postrockede and remain in the shoegazer down-tempo, as they are equally adept.

That sounds almost like a compliment. Thanks!

There’s going to be some major changes coming.
But now we’ll just concentrate on new songs and reinventing ourselves again. And of course we will be spending our massive Spotify-royalties. Feeling like Lady Gaga, almost.

See you in 2010, it’ll be good.

P.S. Listen to the great albums of 2009:

FINNISH
Puumaja: Meriselityksiä, Puk: Koordinaatit, Vuk: The Plains, Plain Ride: House On The Hill, Rollstons: Gauguin’s Trunk, Samuli Putro: Elämä on juhla, Sur-Rur: Sur-Rur, Manna: Songs of Hope and Desire, Oranssi Pazuzu: Muukalainen puhuu, Sister Flo: AU, Samae Koskinen: Elossa, Regina: Puutarhatrilogia, Joose Keskitalo: Tule minun luokseni kulta, Murmansk: Eleven Eyes To Shade…

NON-FINNS
Prefab Sprout: Let’s Change The World With Music, The Church: Untitled #23, Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, Animal Collective: Merriweather Postpavillion, Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown, Malcolm Middleton: Waxing Gibbous, Iron&Wine: Around The Well, Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest, Great Lake Swimmers: Lost Channels…

Kuulas poplaulumme nimittäin pääsi Kadonneen jäljillä -uutuussarjan puffiin. Sarjaa esittää MTV3, ja se on vissiin jo alkanut. Meillä ei valittamista. Valmistaudutaan tässä tuleviin Heligoland-keikkoihin sopivasti jännittäen mutta kuitenkin rentoina kuten aina.

Hyvää syksyä kaikille.

They live in France, originally they come all the way from Australia. And their next album is mixed and produced by Robin Guthrie (from Cocteau Twins fame, but you knew that already didn’t you).

Two dates (Turku & Helsinki) are confirmed so far, some more to come hopefully. You’ll find them from Live-section.

(You can find the gigs in Facebook from this link right here.)

we managed to get a support slot for the fabulous Hjaltalín (isl) at their Lahti -gig on 25.8. (at Torvi). They are a superb group, and so are we, so you should definately come to see us play.

Hjaltalín is also playing shows in Helsinki and Tampere, so if you managed to miss their Provinssirock -show it’s time to repair the damage! They are usually described as a combination of Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Sigur Rós (well you can’t really avoid that comparison if you come from there?), which actually does them justice.

In Tampere there will be also the great On Volcano on stage.