Tuesday 7 September 2021

Sukellusvene from 1979 with bonus single





Wow, gotta love that cover drawing for the single just above!

From discogs:

Sukellusvene was founded in Lappeenranta, Finland, in the early 1970s and released a single and LP in the late of the same decade. Sukellusvene's music was a mixture of pop, jazz and funk, but the band's debut LP was released in the middle of new wave era in 1979 and it did not succeed.  The band quit soon after the release of the album.

Name of the band means submarine in Finnish.   I've known this LP for a while, lucky you if you've never heard it before because I find it to be a perfect mixture of Finnish-style fusion (cf. Finnforest or the great Pekka Pohjola of course) so I got really excited when I heard they had released a single as bonus tracks to the CD as you can see here.  The Moon Funk:




The last track reminds me so much of Carpe Diem, but could it really be an influence here, or more likely, some other progressive rock intermediary? Have a listen, really stunning stuff with all the hallmarks of the European tendency for fusion to be more composed, emotional and intricate:





4 comments:

  1. lossless
    https://we.tl/t-IUWWqLbiVf
    mp3

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/us51wk
    https://www119.zippyshare.com/v/PythC9EF/file.html

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  2. Fantastic album (and single) - thanks!

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  3. Hi!

    Anyone "unsure", as was here, can listen to YT whole LP @ Discogs:

    https://www.discogs.com/artist/722331-Sukellusvene

    Cheers!
    Ciao! For now.
    rntcj

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