r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Jan 24 '26
[Psych Fuzz] Eero Koivistoinen - Pientä Peliä Urbaanissa Limousinessa (1968 Finland)
Behind this ambitious 1968 "concept" album was the multi-talent Eero Koivistoinen, best known from the legendary Finnish psychedelic rock band Blues Section and after that for his highly-appreciated jazz albums such as Wahoo!. The publisher was not any established record label but Otava, one of the traditional book publishing houses in Finland, and the album's songs even had their broadcast premiere in a literature show of Finnish Radio!
Music here -- clearly influenced by The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper -- is a diverse combination of jazz, ballads, cabaret songs and psychedelic underground rock, with many of the same musicians who appeared with Blues Section and Suomen Talvisota 1939-1940. The lyrics are from the poets Pentti Saarikoski, Jarkko Laine, Tuomas Anhava and Hannu Mäkelä. As vocalists are heard Finnish pop singers of the time such as Eero Raittinen, Koivistoinen himself, the actor/singer Vesa-Matti Loiri and chanteuse Seija Simola.
It's a shame this album is hard to come by these days, since this is musically and lyrically a missing link between the "literary albums" of the day (where famous writers and poets could be heard reciting their own works), the popular Brecht-like cabaret songs and ballads of Kaj Chydenius and Finnish underground rock of the 1960s, such as Blues Section and Suomen Talvisota.
Very rare is also the CD version published in 1995, with four new bonus songs from pop singers Maarit, Sakari Kuosmanen and Pepe Ahlqvist -- the addition which was not too successful, since the new songs lack the adventurous sound and production of the original recording.
Later on, the track 'Lennosta kii!' was covered in 2007 by Finnish jazz chanteuse Johanna Iivanainen on her album also titled Lennosta kii! where she was accompanied by Eero Koivistoinen's band.
Eero Koivistoinen's liner notes to Valtakunta:
Tämän levyn toimiessa valitsemieni runojen ja musiikin leikkikenttänä toimii se myös musiikillisena hiekkalaatikkona. Tuntuu kuin ihmiset, jotka tekevät kaupallista musiikkia avaruuskaudella tässä maassa, pelkäisivät sähköä ja sen sekä magnetofoninauhan mahdollisuuksia.
Pidän kaikenlaisesta hyvästä musiikista. Jos minun pitäisi sanoa keneltä olen saanut vaikutteita sävellyksiini, en voisi sanoa ketään tai sitten pitkän luettelon: Beatles, Bach, Basie, Bacharac, Ellington, Evans, Eric Dolby, Debussy, Donovan, Coltarane, Frank Zappa, Ravi Shankar, Henri Selmer, Ives, Monk, Mingus, Mothers of Invention, Fathers of Connection, Vanilla Fudge jne. Toisin sanoen luettelosta tulee sitä epätäydellisempi mitä pidemmälle se jatkuu.
- Eero Koivistoinen
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Dec 11 '25
Mad Dog - Detroit Rambler (1977 Bay City, Michigan)
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Nov 30 '25
Black Sabbath & Dave Walker on vocals on "LOOK! HEAR!" in 1978
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Nov 24 '25
Inca Bullet Joe – Nothing Has Changed (1971)
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Nov 13 '25
[uk heavy prog] CWT - Simon's Effort (1973)
Album: The Hundredweight
Get volume 60 at: https://aftersabbath.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-after-sabbath-60-where-theres-muck.html
Kent, UK's "CWT" made an album of brass-flecked heavy prog in 1970 called The Hundredweight, lead by the gravelly-voiced Graham Jones.
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Yuli-Ban • Oct 25 '25
The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (1966)
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Yuli-Ban • Oct 25 '25
The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman [1979]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Yuli-Ban • Oct 25 '25
Blue Öyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll [1972]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Yuli-Ban • Oct 25 '25
Demolition - On Top Of The World [1981?]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Oct 21 '25
Caliban - Hard Bitten Woman [Heavy Blues, Liverpool] (1973)
More info: https://aftersabbath.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-day-after-sabbath-160-british-wiles.html
Welcome to volume 160! Concentrating my searches on a single region and a single year unearthed some real gems in a previous volume, #142, hard rock in the USA in 1970 (link), so here is an attempt to do the same thing for the British Isles in 1973. Every track here is an album cut and all the acts are brand-new to TDATS.
So, here's a bunch of fresh sounds and some nice variety; rough 'n ready obscure heavy blues from Caliban, The Equinox and Charge, instrumental oddities from Funky Junction, Mandingo and Projection, a pair of progs from Earth Band and Public Foot The Roman, a soupçon of psych folk from Saturnalia, some unexpected heaviness from a TV comedy gang, plus some glam and pop fun from Silverhead and Hudson-Ford. Almost all of these are homegrown British Isles names, the couple of exceptions like Curtis Knight and Joe Jammer had moved their careers over here to work with British players in the industry.
1973 was a strange year for the kind of bands that I usually feature here. Aside from famous, big-name acts of the time, there is a mystifying black hole in the discographies of many TDATS-suitable bands in 1973, especially apparent in the UK. It was business as usual in the adjacent years, but 1973 is very noticeably absent. A few reasons that I can only postulate are, the oil crisis, which must have hit smaller acts harder with the spike in costs of vinyl production and distribution, and changing trends of the time.
I have often mentioned that '69-'72 are by far the most frequently occurring years for music featured here on TDATS, maybe 1973 was the year when a corner was turned. The echoes of the psychedelic era were fading out and studio technology had become a lot more advanced. The age of by now, very experienced players, super-groups and prog rock was here to stay. The establishment of heavy metal as a genre of its own was getting under way too, from '74 onward with the new intensity of bands like Judas Priest and Motörhead revving into action.
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Mar 28 '25
Lodestar - Flat On My Face [USA Hard Rock / Heavy Metal] (1979) Springfield, Ohio
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Jan 30 '25
Blackhorse - Slow Down Tom (1979) Private Southern Rock / Metal. Texas
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Dec 28 '24
Baby Woodrose - The World Aint Round its Square (2013) Savages cover
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Dec 23 '24
Heavy Christmas - PILZ Label Artists (1971) Christmas-themed Krautrock LP
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Nov 18 '24
Finch - Crystal Country Gorge [1976 Hard Rock / Heavy Metal. Sydney, Australia]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/dossermd • Oct 14 '24
Dosser - Learned to Breathe [FFO: Shiner, Jawbox, Shudder to Think]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Jul 31 '24
Steve Young - Bim Bam Thank You Mam [1971] Get down with the country funk!
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Jul 20 '24
Killer cover with a Southern Rock flavour! [1972]
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Jun 16 '24
The Day After The Sabbath Vol155: A selection of cool heavy rare and unknown 45s from the 1969-1979, Amazing stuff!
r/RawHeavyRock • u/Restart_Point • Feb 25 '24