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M\u00e4kkel\u00e4 \/ fin \/ folk noir
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Mäkkelä (FIN/GER)
Mäkkelä, un musicien-compositeur unique en son genre nous transporte sur une musique « folk-noir » mélangeant des hymnes énigmatiques, des racines punk-folk avec une touche de vaudeville des plus surprenants. Cette création musicale éclatante est soutenue par une écriture fine et un jeu de guitare surprenant qui lui a valu en 2017 une nomination pour le European Folk Award en Allemagne. Sur scène, Mäkkelä livre une performance acoustique envoutante, principalement à la guitare et au bouzouki irlandais. Un show qui se distingue radicalement de la plupart des concerts de singer-songwriters. Intensité des chansons et énergie pure... Des concerts qui nous rappellent des momentum à la « Et quand Cohen rencontre Waits et Strummer ». Depuis la sortie de son dernier album "Homeland", Mäkkelä tourne solo avec brio au Canada, en Scandinavie et en Europe centrale et orientale. Il se produit dans les plus importants festivals de roots/folk/underground d'Allemagne et de la République tchèque.
‘“Cet album devient à chaque écoute de plus en plus riche ; un album qui plairadéfinitivement aux afficionados les plus exigeants. Avec des échos à la Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen ou encore ce romantisme empreint de fumée de cigarettes des paroles de Shane MacGowan, Mäkkelä prend une trajectoire définitivement non linéaire et vous invite au voyage à la recherche d'un "Homeland”»(Fatea Magazine, UK, 10/2018)

Mäkkelä (FIN)
Bio/Info 2024
After the rough time of the pandemic with all its limitations, 2024 looks like a musically promising new year. Finnish singer-songwriter Mäkkelä is going to hit the road again in Europe, presenting new material and songs from his current album "Dog & Typewriter". A stripped-down, reduced to the essentials programme of intense, at times even worrying, acoustic songs recorded over the past two years. "Dog & Typewriter" and it's predecessor "Trad & Anger" deliver what has become the artist's trademark over hundreds of live shows he played all over Europe and Canada the past years. Bridging atmospheric Folk Noir far from genre clichés with beat poetry and a live performance of scarce intensity earned the artist a nomination for the European Folk Award in Germany, commissions for theatre/stage music, a cultural award of the city of Nuremberg, let alone a loyal following all over Europe. You may expect exceptional concerts of one of Europe's most distinct and interesting solo performers.
Latest release:
"Dog & Typewriter" (9pm Records)
Press
"Wild and romantic mix of American Folk, Blues, Country and Punrock attitude [...]."
Nürnberger Nachrichten, Germany, 2022)
"This album grows on you with each listen and is a definite musos album. With definite echoes of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and the booze lashed, cigarette stinking romanticism of Shane MacGowan's lyrics, Mäkkelä takes a less trodden path and invites you on his journey in search fora 'Homeland'."
(Fatea Magazine, UK, 10/2018)
„The songs were strikingly reminiscent of folk-noir scene greats like the twin US bands 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand in instrumentation, composition and arrangements." (Frankenpoost, Germany, 12/2022)
"[...] full of venom, concise, clear and pulls no punches, exactly how a proper folk album should sound. "
(Fatea Magazine, UK)
Links
http://maekkelae.com/ https://soundcloud.com/maekkelae
Video Links
https://www.maekkelae.com/video
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