It's been a few years since 22 Pistepirkko last played in Ilosaarirock. Now this Finnish cousin of American-style root blues comes back with a vengeance. For more than 20 years now theirs has been a formula that works like charm: take the simple elements of blues, then add them some of the unique 22 Pistepirkko ingredient, and a bit of sheer magic. And it's that simple to put the world under your spell. The music that results is a bit like an easily escaping Finnish summer night. Or a hot summer day, when everything stops for a moment and you feel everything around you so intensely that it almost hurts.
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