koria kitten riot is music.

New album

Studio, flights and an apartment booked. We’ll be in Berlin from mid-June to mid-July to record a third album, at the lovely Radio Buellebrueck Studio with the even more lovely Simon Frontzek.

Before that, it’s lyric writing, arranging and practice practice practice. Looking forward to it quite a bit!

German dates

The album’s coming out on the German Kyr Records on March 2nd. Because of this, we’re doing a small promotional German duo tour with Lasse in the end of February. Here are the confirmed dates so far:

THU/23/2/2012 - Tagtraum, Ingolstadt, DE (w/ Joasihno)

FRI/24/2/2012 - Cafe Wagner, Jena, DE (w/ Mexican Elvis)

SAT/25/2/2012 - Radio Buellerbrueck Studio, Berlin, DE

More dates very likely TBC. Hope to see you there!

Antti.

Show tonight @ Nosturin Alakerta!

A very last-minute thing just happened, and we’re playing tonight @ Nosturin Alakerta w/ Big Wave Riders. Come along! Showtime at 21.30!

It’s official

“The Lows & The Highs” will be out on March 2nd in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Kyr Records, preceded by a German tour. The first confirmed show is on February 24th in Jena.

Oh yeah, the album’s out.

The new album’s been out for a while, but I’ve been too busy with Facebook updates, and I’ve completely forgotten about updating this blog! Please like the KKR page on Facebook, it’s fun! It’s cool! It’s the new thang! http://www.facebook.com/koriakittenriot

 Anyways, here’s a few places to buy the album:

http://solmu.info/shop/

http://www.recordshopx.com/artist/koria_kitten_riot/the_lows_the_highs/

http://cdon.fi/musiikki/koria_kitten_riot/the_lows_%26_the_highs-16257775

Live dates etc.

Hey everybody!

I’ve been extremely busy for the past month or so, but I thought I’d post a quick note on the blog about the live shows that are confirmed so far. The list looks like this:

• THU/3/11/2011 (5 PM!) - Levykauppa Äx, Helsinki
• THU/3/11/2011 - Kokomo Tikibar, Helsinki (album release party, w/ Phenomenal Creature)
• FRI/4/11/2011 - Swamp Music, Tampere
• FRI/4/11/2011 - O’Connells, Tampere
• SAT/5/11/2011 - Aamiaisklubi, Klubi, Tampere (DJ set)
• SAT/10/12/2011 - Cosmic Comic Cafe, Turku 
(Toinenkäsi pop-kirppis)
• FRI/20/1/2012 - Bar Kuka, Turku
• SAT/21/1/2012 - Blue Pool, Forssa

There’s more coming up, and I’ll post them once they’re confirmed. All dates are also listed at http://www.koriakittenriot.com.

Oh, and for another list - here’s what our excellent live band will be:

• Eino Anttila - drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Olli Rahkonen - pedal steel, mandolin, stylophone, backing vocals
• Teemu Vänskä - keyboards, backing vocals
• Lasse Toimi - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Antti Reikko - ac. guitar, vocals

We’ve rehearsed quite a bit, and it’s starting to sound good!

I also got a copy of the final, printed album. Looks good! Oh, and I’ll also be visiting the Planetaario show at Radio Helsinki on Saturday, October 22nd, from 10AM to noon.

Can’t wait for November and the live shows!

Antti. 

German release

It’s official!

“The Lows & The Highs” will be released in the German speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) through the wonderful Kyr Records. We have no release date set yet, but we’ll let you know - probably along the lines of early 2012.

Check them out - they don’t have a super extensive back catalog, but quality definitely comes before quantity here:

http://www.kyr-records.com/

Just a quick update…

…since it’s been awhile. Looks like “The Lows & The Highs” will be out in October through good old Solmu Records. The album was mastered by the wonderful Doug Van Sloun (Bright Eyes, Cursive) and was recently OK’d by me and the label, so we’re pretty much finished there. The artwork for the album is progressing nicely and looks great, and we’re also planning to start band rehearsals pretty soon, next week probably. We’ll be a quintet!

I’ve even started to record demos for a third album. I already have quite a few songs to choose from.

There’s also a bunch of other interesting stuff coming up, but it’s too early to talk about those - other than a new website and a video, which will be out… umm, some time soon.

A