The Gentleman Losers' music has been called post-rock, alt-country, folktronica and ambient americana. It's been described as mesmerizing, cinematic, soothing, and ominous. There's been comparison to Vincent Gallo, Boards of Canada, Stars Of The Lid and Angelo Badalamenti, as well as Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack and Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas. It has been called music from a land inhabited by Kerouac's characters.

It's a land of long forgotten crooners on crackly old 78s. Tapes with no name, found in a basement. A Telefunken mixer from the 1950s. Midnight recording sessions in a haunted house. The distant din of the city. The silence of the woods. Freight trains in the horizon. Abandoned towns on the edge of the desert. Fading photographs of lives past. Dead butterflies fluttering in the setting sun. A darkness approaching. An archipelago of insomnia. Memories of things to come.


The Gentleman Losers are the brothers Samu and Ville Kuukka from Finland. They've been playing music together since their early teens. The Gentleman Losers is their long-term project. Their first album was recorded during a nine month period in 2004, in their studio in Turku. In fact, they recorded two albums: after finishing an album's worth of music, they decided it was not what they were looking for, threw away most of it and began anew from the smoldering remains.

Eventually the album was finished, and was released in Europe, America and Asia in 2006 as the first release on Buro, a newly formed sublabel of the Manchester/Berlin label City Centre Offices.

The album has garnered worldwide praise. Several people included it on their Best Of 2006 lists. The first pressing was recently sold out.




Samu.

Plays things with keys on them.

Favourite color: Bistre
Favourite number: 4
Favourite musical mode: Dorian
Favourite time of the nychthemeron: night
Favourite geometric shape: pentagonal orthobirotunda.
Favourite eukaryotic organism: the seahorse

Reads books. Drinks red wine with the purpose of getting drunk. Shoots pictures on film. Does not own and iPod. A man of impulse with a cow's patience. Dreads driving a car. Loves riding in a car. Outgrew digging heavy metal aged 12; thinks everyone should. Bouts of melancholy with manic bits in between. Hates mankind. But in a nice and understanding way.

Ville is about...

vintage hi-fi (lo-fi)
apparatii with vacuum tubes inside
spring+tape reverbs
LP's
book stores and flea markets
guitars of any shape, size or form
monophonic synthesizers
thinks magnetic tape is magical
film
choice of camera Vredeborch Felica and Franka
a wikipedia slut
prefers candle light and moonlight
and 60's cinema
with redwine
later bach
with sushi