"Logrén offers a pleasant surprise: an album with music well rooted in feeling, intelligently compiled and well built-up as a whole."

"Combining influences like Finnish tango, Balkan music and Finnish pelimanni music isn’t easy, but they get it all to sound like just Sväng music. On their...

"Olli Mustonen made his mark as both pianist and composer in his early teens, showing astonishing maturity in both capacities. But recordings have not kept up...

"Finnish actress Irina Björklund, now based in France, has been translating songs Finns love into French. Some songs on her second such album, La vie est...

"The members of the AR Quartet are young. (-) Still, the touch is mature to a degree that makes their self-titled album one of the strongest...

"Tuomo’s sound has triumphed through three albums now, and on the fourth, released in January 2014, it’s time for a new direction. Tuomo finds that in...

"Released by Dave Stapleton’s Edition Records, In Cinema is by far Oddarrang’s strongest album. It is both imaginative and accessible and, despite at times being just...

"I fell in love with the first record of Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha, a band which has found something new: a fresh take on combining...

"The chamber choir Key Ensemble from Turku proved its excellent standard by winning the adult category in the BBC’s competition ‘Let the people sing’ last year....