The Gentleman Losers
Acoustic / Experimental / Folk
Hellsinki, Finland
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"The Gentleman Losers are nothing short of one of the best things I've heard all year." Jennifer Allan / Angry Ape
"This is a stunning release for City Centre Offices' new Büro imprint, and one that haunts and enchants with its timeless beauty." Ian Roullier / Clash
"Les cow-boys dans l'espace... Pour se figurer la musique de ces losers finlandais, il suffit d'imaginer le Ry Cooder de la BO de Paris, Texas, perdu dans les étoiles, ou encore le Neil Young du Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch reconverti en version post-rock... ...belles atmosphères qui évoquent des routes sans fin, des paysages en cinémascope et l'errance initiatique des perssonages de Kerouac" Jean-Yves Leloup / Trax
"..carefully constructed ambient soundscape that woozily makes its way through towering clouds of nebulous menace." Kansai Time Out, Japan
"Da wo Jazz, Blues und Country zu Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts an den Crossroads standen, wollen The Gentleman Losers hin, nur tauschen sie alles Erdige gegen die Weite eines verlassenen Flugplatzes. *****" Debug
"This is music for seeing mirages to." Almost Cool music reviews
"The brothers weave lazy acoustic and electric guitar parts through hazy synthesized chords, adding dusty handclaps and hesitant percussion as the songs drift through imagined glimmering dusks and distant smoky dawns." The Wire
"Masterfully cinematic, wonderfully sublime, a genuine pleasure!"
Trevor Jackson
"I might as well get to the meat of what you, the reader, want to know. Screw objectivity, this is the best thing I’ve heard all 2006. ...Put bluntly, if this record asked me to jump off a cliff you would find me approaching the ground below seconds later weeping tears of joy that these musical poets had deigned fit to address me." Indiecult
"Album of the year." Boomkat
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Aug 13, 2009
Pitchfork: Forkcast, The Gentleman Losers Laureline
Our song Laureline featured on Pitchforks Forkcast.
Aug 13, 2009
Bibio featured on Pitchfork's Guest Lists.
Bibio featured on Pitchfork's Guest Lists. Nice interview. Lot's of cool stuff! There's something about us too...
Thanks Stephen!
Jul 20, 2009
New Dustland reviews!
Here's a few:
Here's a Strangeglue review by Brad Kelly.
http://subaroom.com/reviews/the-gentleman-losers-dustland/10005258
This is a french one from Autres Directrions.
Thanks for your insights Denis!
http://autresdirections.net/article.php3?id_article=1544
Jun 2, 2009
The Gentleman Losers On Last.fm
You can listen more our music on last.fm.
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gentleman+Losers
May 12, 2009
The New Gentleman Losers Album 'Dustland'
Yes indeed we can finally announce that the new long waited album 'Dustland' will be released on June 20th 2009 on City Centre Offices.
Check out the teaser for Dustland in the virb video section above!
May 12, 2009
Dustin Dis' Playlist Appered In The Guardian
Thanks to Dustin for the link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/01/pj-harvey-john-parish-dustin-dis
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Members
Samu Kuukka plays electric and acoustic piano
synths
drums
bass guitar
harpsichord
vibraphone.
Ville Kuukka plays acoustic and electric guitarssteel guitar
bass guitar
drums
mixing board
outboard
tape machines.
Movies
Jim Jarmusch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, David Lynch, Aki+Mika Kaurismäki, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Melville, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Andrei Tarkovsky, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa, Josef von Sternberg, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, F. W. Murnau, Greta Garbo,
Music
Tom Waits, Neil Young, Einstürzende Neubauten, El Perro Del Mar, Daniel Lanois, Depeche Mode, Angelo Badalamenti, T-Bone Walker, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Band, Lee Hazlewood, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Vincent Gallo, Serge Gainsbourg, Syd Barret, Charlie Parker, Arvo Pärt, Django Reinhardt, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Brian Eno, Georges Delerue, Johnny Cash, The Doors, Mazzy Star, The Velvet Underground, Ennio Morricone, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Wilco, Billie Holiday, Kurt Weill, Sonic Youth, Paisley Underground,
Books
Bukowski, Kerouac, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Saarikoski, Rimbaud, Fante, Kafka...
Influenced by
The 20th century, incandescent light bulbs, dimly lit rooms, jukebox way down low, bits and pieces of recording tape, vacuum tubes heating up the room in the dead of night, 78's on old phonograph, red wine, grains on film, imperfection of the world we used to have...
In the record player at the moment
Bibio, Headless Heroes, Papercuts, El Perro Del Mar, The New Sonic Youth,
You can buy our music here
A Number of Small Things, Forcedexposure.com, Roughtrade.com, Boomkat.com, CDUniverse.com, Amazon.com, CDON.com, ITunes, Stupido Shop Helsinki,
Sailboats and Bubbles, Jul 14, 2009:
and your photography reminds me of the old HOOD albums from Leeds
Diorama, May 13, 2009:
Thanks.
Your music creates a mood I like
See you
mr.teddybear, Feb 20, 2009:
Your music is such a jewel. Congratulations for your album !
:::rannou, May 2, 2008:
thanks a lot for your words!!!!!!! i love your stuff, i listen to your album which is really great for my ears!!!!!!!!