disco

Hey everybody! Greetings from USA (Tommi) and Lieksa (Riku)!

We're still feeling summery here at Viola Music Club this month, so we bring you a simple story of carefree disco dancing underneath neon lightning and disco thunder! Enjoy!

Neon Lightning (hifi)
Neon Lightning (lofi)

Hi friends!

We've already reached the fifth track of this music club endeavour and this time we've done something we rarely do: recorded a cover song!

So here it is, fully Violated and translated to English: TV-Resistori's ever-so-wonderful 'Näen tanssivan sun uudestaan'!

Oh How You Dance (hifi)
Oh How You Dance (lofi)

SUMMERTIME Y'ALL!!!

Even Finland has gotten a taste of real summer this year for a change, so obviously this calls for celebration and what better way to celebrate than with Viola's first official summer hit!

(Please also vote for S S (S-L-L L) in the Radio Helsinki summer hit 2009 finals!)

Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (hifi)
Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (lofi)

TOMMI: Yet another proof of just how essential Esa "Espe" Mikkonen was to the early Viola-sound. The bass-riff here doesn't just support the song - it IS the song.

Some pretty cool mountaintop guitars going on in this track as well. Thanks to Neil Hannon from Divine Comedy for the inspiration for the multiple vocal tracks in the end. We actually started calling this multi-layered vocal-arrangement technique as "Hannons" at some point. "Should we put some Hannons on this?", "Of course we should!", "Right!"

You can never have too much Hannons.

TOMMI: The first song on our first long play album. Probably for many people the first (and for some, the last) Viola-track they've heard. The string intro pretty much sets the tone of what's to come - home made dramatics all the way.

Henkka (R.I.P., bro!) loved playing this whenever he'd DJ at clubs. It was always kinda cool hearing it in a club PA. The sound sucked really bad, but Henkka used to compensate for it by blasting the track at 1000 db, which always kinda helped making it sound kind of punchy even if it was distorted as hell. He'd always play it so late into the night it didn't really make a difference. People were just blissfully dancing on with imminent danger of permanent ear damage.