Delay Trees

Happy Holidays

2011-12-23T12:31:00.007+02:00

2011 was a good year for us.

We got our record released in Central Europe and North America by cool labels.
We got kicked out of a Finnish label that used to be really cool.
We played around 30 awesome shows around Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland.
We met amazing people, played with cool bands, visited beautiful places, stayed up late and played a lot of videogames.

I'd say the high points of the year were touring Germany with I Like Trains.
For example the shows at Gebäude 9 and Gleis 22 were really memorable!

Another high point was when we hit the studio to record 'Before I Go Go EP'. There was no pressure, no big ideas, just the four of us hanging out and playing some songs.
And it turned out quite nicely, didn't it? (Get it HERE for FREE if you don't already have it. )

And I'm pretty sure the next high point will be us hitting the studio next week after Christmas festivities.
We've booked a few days at Mankku-studios and we have around 5-7 songs to record. I'm guessing we'll try to lay down the basic tracks next week and then continue working on the album in late February. We're working with our super talented friend Julius Mauranen on this album too.
Hopefully we can find someone to release the album when the time comes but whatever happens we're going to try and give you a first sample of the new stuff during spring of 2012.

We were featured on some 'Best of 2011' lists:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143209922/discussion-the-year-in-music-2011
http://www.strongodors.com/culture/music/strong-odors-favorite-albums-2011/
http://whitetapes.de/everything-new/whitetapes-record-of-the-year-2011-voting-auf-top-10-eingegrenzt
http://noyougirlsneverknow.blogspot.com/2011/12/vuoden-2011-parhaat-biisit-rauhalliset.html
http://www.lily.fi/juttu/parasta-suomesta
http://slowshowslow.blogspot.com/2011/12/parhaat-ept-2011-top-9.html
http://1001-songs.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-40-something-music-geek-picks-his.html
http://thewoundedjukebox.com/2011/12/15/twjs-best-videos-of-2011/
http://thetremagazine.blogspot.com/2011/12/50-favorite-songs-of-2011-part-ii.html
http://www.thewheelsstillinspin.com/2011/12/recommended-albums-of-2011-part-4.html
http://backtorockville.typepad.com/back_to_rockville/2011/12/the-years-best-our-list-of-lists.html

And I was asked to pick my 'Best of 2011' albums and songs for a few blogs, check them out below.

http://stereosubversion.com/top-10-albums-delay-trees
(I totally forgot Low's C'mon, it would be on my TOP10 albums for sure!)
http://www.chaotischundcharmant.com/2011/12/2011-best-for-guests-4.html

We wanna thank our soundguy Eetu for his patience, friendship and for making every show sound great. Thanks Julius for mixing Before I Go Go EP, for the cruise trip to Stockholm and for being excited about the next album, it's gonna be good! Big thanks to Dan & Steph at Friendly Fire Recordings, hopefully we can visit the US soon, you guys are great! Thanks Cargo Records for your support! Thanks to Ossian for booking us many shows and for being a great dude. Thanks to Teemu and James for cool music videos.

And we really wish to thank everyone who came to our shows this year, bought the record, downloaded the EP, listened to our music and got something out of it. Thank you for your support online and offline.

Hopefully next year we can meet more people, visit new places and reach a lot of people with our music.
2011 was good and let's hope that 2012 will be even better for all of us.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

xo xo

SXSW & Canadian Music Fest CANCELLED!

2011-12-13T19:47:00.004+02:00

We're very sad to announce that we're forced to cancel our showcases at SXSW and Canadian Music Fest in 2012.

The reason is mainly financial.
Just the US-visa payments for a party of four are ridiculously high and since we couldn't get a tour around SXSW, it just doesn't make sense at this point . As you probably know we're unsigned at the moment and quite broke so flying overseas for a few shows sounds a bit crazy for us.

We're sorry to disappoint any American fans, but we'll definitely try to come touring there as soon as it is possible and not a financial suicide.

There's also a lot of other stuff happening in our lives and I guess we have to find the fun in being in the band again. We're focusing on recording some new material with our friend Julius Mauranen in December and we already managed to record some songs in Hämeenlinna with Teemu Vilmunen a few weeks ago.
We're trying to be care free with the new material and not calculate things too much.
So if our record ends up being ½ of punk rock and ½ of instrumental jams, don't panic, it's just us feeling good and enjoying being in the band again.

All the best to everyone and enjoy the holidays!
XOXO

More Euro Tour 2011 Photos

2011-11-12T00:01:00.011+02:00

Huge thanks to Manus for arranging the tour, we had FUN!

Big thanks to everyone who helped us on our way:
Nils, Bruno, Nick, Nina & Alexander, Julia & Ralph, Michel, Wouter, Inga + everyone we probably forgot.
THANK YOU, see you next time!

Euro Tour 2011 Photos

2011-11-10T14:43:00.009+02:00

Before I Go Go EP

2011-08-01T13:22:00.010+03:00

Before I Go Go EP by Delay Trees

'Before I Go Go EP' is finally released, you can listen to it at Soundcloud and download it HERE.

We have a (very) limited edition cassette also coming up which you can purchase directly from us at our shows or order soon at our website, HERE.

We're trying to get the cassette for Flow Festival, but let's see what happens with the printing.

The EP is basically a THANK YOU to all you wonderful people for your constant support. It has some quite old tunes and one very new song (Before I Go) and it's no masterpiece in any standards, but it has some really great moments and we had a lot of fun making it.
Hopefully it translates.

See you on the road people!

xoxo

Little update

2011-06-15T18:11:00.003+03:00

It's now summer in Finland and it's warm and pretty and everything is just perfect.

We played a laid back show in Helsinki a few weeks ago with Paperfangs and are going to play a couple of cool Finnish festivals later this summer (Ämyrock, Flow-festival) but all in all we're taking it easy, practising new songs, experimenting with new sounds and maybe releasing a new five song EP which consists of really old and really new material.
We've also planned to swim a lot, play soccer a lot and maybe longboard a little.

Friendly Fire Recordings have been good to us, the record has made quite well on college radios and About Brothers video has aired multiple times on MTV, Much Music, Spinner, etc. So some really cool small things have been happening for us in the States and I've given a couple of nice interviews as well. Check them out here and here.

We've also had some licensing interest from Japan, which would be cool, let's see what happens. At the moment it seems that we'll be visiting Germany once again in October, but I don't have enough info yet to share you with any details. We have a new booking agent in Europe and we're looking forward to coming back to Germany!

We're now officially out of Johanna Kustannus label. We are very happy to be out of there as it is no longer the company we originally signed to. It was sold to Universal and things really changed to worse.
We're looking for a new label and in an ideal world we would put out a new album next spring.
We have around 7 new songs that are quite good and quite different from the old material. Meaning that slow songs are slower, dreamy songs are dreamier and we even have a few fast and fuzzy pop songs.

I've been listening to a lot of early Flaming Lips, like 'Clouds Taste Metallic', early R.E.M. and Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. I guess the new songs are some kind of a mixture of the moods those records share. Dreamy and hazy and a bit lo-fi.

I'm not sure what we're gonna do with the EP I mentioned earlier. We don't know if we're gonna release it by ourselves or with someone, or will it be a download only or maybe just a limited edition cassette or something, but we'll let you know soon. Promise.

So I guess we're doing quite alright, nice things are happening all the time, we're excited about the new songs and just hoping that the future looks as bright as the past.

Thanks for your support people and enjoy the summer.

Here's one of the best shoegaze songs ever written for your listening pleasure!

Album released in the USA today!!

2011-05-10T15:09:00.004+03:00

We are excited to announce that our debut album is getting its US release via Friendly Fire Recordings today.
We're very lucky to be working with such a great bunch of awesome people and are hoping to come and visit US for shows sometime soon. Keep your fingers crossed for that!

You can get the album at Amazon, iTunes or eMusic.
And don't forget the free download of 'Tarantula/Holding On' at Other Music.

Beautiful Video for About Brothers OUT NOW!!

2011-04-15T19:12:00.013+03:00

"This music video tells a story of a boy who creates a world with his
drawings - meets some bad guys but befriends them and gets the girl in
the end.

The boy is acted by the directors brother, Tomi, who in real life draws
dozens of pictures a day, listens to great deal of music and writes
stories about robots, droids and saving damsels in distress - he likes to
call himself the "Ambassador of good will".

The director originally aimed to make a short film about his brother, but
when the band Delay Trees contacted him in the hopes of a music video,
he realized their music made the perfect match for this story.

Filming took place in the dusk of the Western Finland's
countryside and was supplemented with shots in a local doll-museum.

To re-create that 8-mm retro-look, the director
attached vintage Canon FD lenses to his camera with a 35-mm adapter
built by himself. This added to the unique look of the piece.
Tomi's drawings were then
scanned in digitally and animated in 3D to interact with him in his
imaginative world."

-Teemu Erämaa, http://teemu.eramaa.fi/

Delay Trees "About Brothers" from friendly fire recordings on Vimeo.

Some Live Shit Number 2

2011-03-21T11:04:00.002+02:00

Oh how we miss Hamburg...

Some Live Shit

2011-03-20T11:38:00.004+02:00

TARANTULAheidelberg by Delay Trees

GOLDheidelberg by Delay Trees

LightPollutionlutakko by Delay Trees

InFebruarylutakko by Delay Trees

Heidelberg songs recorded by Kabi (17.1.2011)
Lutakko songs recorded by Kyösti Ylikulju/Hear.fi (12.3.2011)

Germany / January 2011

2011-01-29T20:38:00.020+02:00

We had an amazing time supporting I Like Trains in Germany - really great guys, great music and powerful shows!
We loved every bit of the tour; every city we played and all the people we met.
We're hoping to come back soon!!!

If you want to see some live photos, there's a few shots from Cologne HERE and some shots from Münster HERE.

Happy New Year 2011

2010-12-30T20:26:00.010+02:00

2010 was quite a music year here in Finland with acts like Ultramariini, Villa Nah, Kap Kap, Circle, Sister Flo, Ville Leinonen, Kaskas, Magenta Skycode, Paleface, Islaja, Kiki Pau, Minä ja Ville Ahonen and Topi Saha (just to name a few) all releasing great albums.

We enjoyed playing the twenty or so shows to nice people, had a very pleasant visit to Germany, had crazy fun making the record at Mankku and Kekkonen, got to warm-up for the amazing Teenage Fanclub and even got a very supporting message from Norman Blake few days after the show!

Despite the overwhelming amount of good new Finnish music, our self-titled record was received fairly well in the press and in the radio and many people heard our music.

Helsingin Sanomat and Soundi picked our album as one of the best of 2010 and these guys also liked our music:

http://ylex.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/veli-kauppisen-musiikin-erikoisohjelma/velin-suosikit-2010
http://loveyourselftoo.blogspot.com/2010/12/goodbye-2010-parte-1.html
http://lazyacrerecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-year-lists.html
http://rai-rai-rai.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-5.html
http://stylemode1.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-albums-of-2010.html
http://amazinglyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-2010-gigs-albums-ep-songs-videos.html
http://echoesechoess.blogspot.com/2010/12/parasta-2010-kappaleet.html
http://www.indie30.com/component/content/article/36-news-archive/322-top-100-songs-of-2010-51-75.html

Next year starts on a high note; our album is released in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Netherlands by Cargo Records and we play a Germany-tour supporting I Like Trains (UK) in January. We've also been talking with a very nice indie label in USA, so keep your fingers crossed with that one!

We've planned to put out an EP at some time next year to get rid of the older songs and start planning on the next album, but let's see...

We hope you had a great year, we most definitely had!
Have a wonderful New Year and enjoy 2011 with an open heart.

My TOP albums of 2010

2010-12-02T21:04:00.009+02:00

That deserve honorable mentions:

BLONDE REDHEAD - Penny Sparkle
FOUR TET - There Is Love In You
ULTRAMARIINI - Ydin
SPOON - Transference
VILLA NAH - Origin

That I haven't been listening to nearly enough:

GRINDERMAN - Grinderman 2
BRIAN ENO - Small Craft on A Milk Sea
DUNGEN - Skit i Allt
SUFJAN STEVENS - The Age of Adz
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Shadows

That have some great moments, but seem a bit boring as a whole:

ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
NEIL YOUNG - Le Noise
WILD NOTHING - Gemini
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Forgiveness Rock Record
TWIN SHADOW - Forget

CASSETTE 2012 (Official Music Video by James Martin)

2010-11-23T16:06:00.001+02:00

Delay Trees "Cassette 2012" from James Martin | Vim & Vigor on Vimeo.

18.11.2010 @ Nosturi

2010-11-20T21:00:00.005+02:00

Photos by Heikki & Melanie Lindgren

Finnish indie goodness

2010-10-30T11:55:00.015+03:00

I thought I'd share a few of my favourite Finnish indie releases of this year.
They are filled with great moods and good music and are 100% DIY.

On Volcano and Kaskas are offering their releases as free downloads
and you can buy Black Twig's EP for only 5 €.

Check them out friends !!!

ON VOLCANO - New Blood EP (download here)

BLACK TWIG - Swans et Tea EP (buy here)

KASKAS - In the Meantime (download here)

T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE

2010-10-25T17:29:00.002+03:00

Brand new t-shirts available now at www.delaytrees.com

15.10.2010 @ Doris, Tampere

2010-10-17T22:39:00.006+03:00

Special thanks for the very cool VJ'ing to Joonas "Jones" Tikkanen

Record Release @ Korjaamo

2010-10-02T13:08:00.010+03:00

IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT,

BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED !!!

All photos by Juppe Oikari

Delay Trees by Aapo Huhta pt II

2010-09-15T17:59:00.005+03:00

For official press photos, visit Johanna Kustannus

For more Aapo's photos, visit aapohuhta.com

Delay Trees by Aapo Huhta pt I

2010-09-14T20:26:00.005+03:00

Last night @ Korjaamo

2010-09-04T14:16:00.006+03:00

ALBUM IS READY + TRACK LISTING

2010-08-16T15:23:00.010+03:00

Our debut album is finally ready.

It includes ten songs about dreams, depression, lost friends, Helsinki nights and the rapture. The release date is 29th of September in Finland.

Come and join our record release party at Korjaamo 1st of October with special guests Plain Ride and Kaskas.

Here's the full track listing of the album:

1. GOLD
2. CASSETTE 2012
3. ABOUT BROTHERS
4. PATTERN
5. IN FEBRUARY
6. QUARANTINE
7. LIGHT POLLUTION
8. TARANTULA / HOLDING ON
9. WHALES & COLORS
10. 4:45 AM

Mixingmixingmixing

2010-07-26T12:26:00.002+03:00

We succesfully completed all the recordings in the amount of time we were given and then we took a few weeks break filled with swimming, strawberries, skateboarding, road trips and football. We'll start mixing the album this week as well as designing the final album art. I hate to be too optimistic with anything but I honestly think we have something GOLDEN in our hands...

Cassette 2012 ( NEW SINGLE OUT!!!)

2010-06-28T11:14:00.006+03:00

Finally we have a new song to present to you - Cassette 2012.

You can listen to the song on MySpace, but for better quality, go to our website at www.delaytrees.com and download the song for FREE!!!!

Enjoy!!!

-Rami/DELAY TREES

Studio part 2.3

2010-06-22T13:34:00.009+03:00

Hi everyone!

Good news - The album is coming together nicely.
We have ten songs almost ready and one more studio week to go.
Lots of little stuff to do - noise tracks, loops, backing vocals, shakers, etc...

We've worked our asses off on this record but so far everything sounds really good
and it seems that it's been well worth the work.
Hopefully it's well worth the wait for all you people too!

Our first single for the album will be available very soon,
within a week or so, so stay tuned for that...

Love and bunnies <3

A well needed therapy session

Elephants making love

Sk8r Boy

Studio part 2.2 (Influences)

2010-06-19T19:38:00.010+03:00

Studio part 2.1

2010-06-07T13:29:00.003+03:00

Studio part 2

2010-06-04T21:52:00.012+03:00

After an exhausting studio session in Porvoo, home is the best place to spend your Friday night... In calming silence with the best company and maybe a good movie.

We've now recorded the basic tracks for the rest of the songs. Most of them are slower and post rockier than the songs on our first session and the mood had to be right for the perfect takes. Unfortunately the right vibe wasn't easy to find with some technical problems holding us down at the start and later with some issues that made all of us feel a bit uneasy for a while.

In the end though, the songs came out great and they will support the album as a whole just perfectly. We'll start working on the overdubs in a week or so and we couldn't be happier though we had sort of a rough time at Mankku this time. We are very blessed to have the opportunity to make beautiful music with our dear friends and with a tremendously talented producer. And a nice studio assistant/roadie, Kiiski.

I don't know for sure when the first "single" will come out, hopefully soon.
Might be even next week...?!

Love is all, good will prevail.
Take care everyone,

Rami/DELAY TREES

Lauri's Hammond jam

Night Moods

Studio part 1.1

2010-05-15T19:00:00.012+03:00

This week we spent three and a half days overdubbing guitars and playing some piano & rhodes at the great Studio Kekkonen. I've also sung the vocals for two songs already, which is nice.

We created some really crispy sounding textures with acoustic guitars and rhodes running through multiple effects and Juppu even loaned some "hippie bells" from the Lebanese restaurant downstairs to give this sort of magical, dreamlike atmosphere on few of the songs. They really needed that extra something to become more interesting and I think we nailed it...
Now we have two songs almost ready and three cool songs we'll work on next week.

Here's a few photos of the fearless trio at Studio Kekkonen and a drum soundcheck video from our first session at Mankku-studios.

Take care everyone!

Studio part 1

2010-05-07T22:42:00.011+03:00

Well well.

We now have the basic tracks for the first 5 songs in the bag and two and a half joyfull days to remember. In the next few weeks we'll be doing some overdubs and vocals, and hopefully get a single ('Cassette 2012') out in a month or so. Lauri added some photos from the sessions to our Delay Trees page in Facebook, check them out here.

Lauri

The room

Our muse for the sessions, the ever so lovely Kylie.

Meditative, eh?!

Bras & Undies

2010-04-17T11:55:00.008+03:00

Boy oh boy, Bras & Undies was fun!

Thanks to everyone for showing up, the sound and the atmosphere was amazing.
Now we're going to focus on rehearsing the songs for the album and in a few weeks we're going to hit the studio for session no.1. Hopefully we can get a single released by the end of May for your listening pleasures.

Check out more photos from Bras & Undies to relive the vibe HERE.
Photos taken by Samu Inkinen.

A night at Dynamo

2010-04-08T20:27:00.009+03:00

All photos by Arto Karvonen at Dynamo, Turku in October 2009.

Learning to simplify

2010-03-23T22:02:00.002+02:00

We just had our first proper sort of pre-production rehearsal last weekend. We're going to record the basic tracks for the album totally live, so we really want to be in good shape musician-wise. We're also trying to simplify our playing now which forces us to think each one's parts again and again from fresher perspectives. So far it's been fruitful. I know it's common that bands usually have tons of songs to record and to choose for the album. We really don't work like that, I mean, it seems to help us concentrate on the songs we have currently better, if we have 10 we're confident about than to have 20 songs that we're not certain of. Now we're trying to make the songs we have sound as good as possible and we're just focusing on the little things and details. I DO have a lot of songs/demos on my computer but they don't have the same vibe, or spirit, that most of the songs on the planned album right now. Most of them are REALLY minimalistic and slow, maybe we'll save those for the future.

Or then we'll end up throwing most of our songs out of the window in the studio and start doing some weird experimentalslowcorepsychedelicrock?! Maybe we should live like Wayne Coyne to make it happen... And I wouldn't mind a bit, check it out:

...Oh and I just heard the new The National song, Terrible Love, sounds quite promising. Enjoy it with a huge dose of spring sunshine!

At HML

2010-03-13T20:53:00.014+02:00

Last night we had an amazing time in Hämeenlinna playing some good tunes with good bands to good people. Suisto-klubi is such a warm environment, plus the sounds are always amazing. Before the gig we chilled at Sami's office playing The Beatles Rock Band and Mario Kart and listening to great "70's Best of Rock Classics"-records. So all in all a very "rock'n'roll" start for the evening...

On Volcano sounded really good with their new songs. Very memorable songs were the groovy one "Lift your hands and praise the Lord", and the very last one of their proper set, "Rain falls" or "Rain drops" or something. Go check them out live if you have the possibility, really sweeeeet: http://www.myspace.com/onvolcano

Our own gig was good with loads of people singing along and dancing and having a good time. Unfortunately we were somehow lacking a bit of energy and didn't really get into the mood for the whole time. However we had loads of fun I guess and even played a brand new song called "4:45 A.M." for the very first time. It was nice...I guess.

Below you can check a few photos of us (and our friend Ville) relaxing at Sami's loungy office, while listening to the live version of Resurrection of Sonic Blue (Yeah, I know the drums are kinda loud).

Resurrection of Sonic Blue LIVE @ Suisto-Klubi 12th of March 2010.

Blogging Begins

2010-03-10T13:14:00.008+02:00

Yo Yo Yo, we're now part of the blogosphere with our official band-blog.
I simply got fed up with the very limited MySpace-blog and therefore am really excited to share all the stuff that comes to mind in here.

We just had our first album pre-production meeting a few days ago with our recorder/co-producer and I'm feeling really good with the whole thing. At least NOW I am, I'm such a rollercoaster ride with my feelings and sometimes I'm too stressed about the songs not being good enough or whatever... Oh, well, we'll be heading to the studio in a few months and we're totally stoked about getting to record something, hopefully something meaningful that we can be proud of. I guess the first "single" will be released in the late May/early June. Till then, take a look at these videos if you haven't already checked them out and enjoy the revival of Spring!

Delay Trees: Desert Island Song - M1-studio (Live) from Sami Korhonen on Vimeo.

Delay Trees, Kaskas @ Torvi 6.2.2010 from Markus Kontiainen on Vimeo.