It's 1989 and the original cold war is yet to thaw.
Helsinki, Finland is one of the unlikeliest places to produce masterful sophisti-pop, but Kosonen, a young man livingin an old wooden house in a bohemian part of town is driwing around in a Citroen DS, imagining himself a cross between Chet Baker and Paul Weller circa 1983, playing tapes of Style Council, The Smiths, Miles and Chet to death.
This E.P. he made before his lone LP is a as wonderful as anything by Canada's elusive Lewis or even Prefab Sprout.
Kosonen might well be the greatest forgotten outsider hepcat Helsinki ever gave the world.
Otto Talvio. Helsinki 2015
Helsinki, Finland is one of the unlikeliest places to produce masterful sophisti-pop, but Kosonen, a young man livingin an old wooden house in a bohemian part of town is driwing around in a Citroen DS, imagining himself a cross between Chet Baker and Paul Weller circa 1983, playing tapes of Style Council, The Smiths, Miles and Chet to death.
This E.P. he made before his lone LP is a as wonderful as anything by Canada's elusive Lewis or even Prefab Sprout.
Kosonen might well be the greatest forgotten outsider hepcat Helsinki ever gave the world.
Otto Talvio. Helsinki 2015
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