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The Gentleman Losers

"...music from a past that hasn't happened yet..."

About Me


Hello. Welcome to The Gentleman Losers Myspace page.
Here you'll find tracks from our debut album, released in 2006 on Büro.
More stuff, including exclusive live tracks, can be found at Virb.com
"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
You can buy our album here:
A Number of Small Things
Forcedexposure.com
Roughtrade.com
Boomkat.com
Dotshop.se
CDUniverse.com
Amazon.com
CDON.com (in Europe)
Or you can download the tracks from here:
Itunes.com (in Japan)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/1/2006
Band Website: gentlemanlosers.com/
Band Members: Samu Kuukka, Ville Kuukka
Influences: In no particular order: Sparklehorse, Daniel Lanois, Charles Bukowski, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean Vigo, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Mark Hollis, Low, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Band, Lee Hazlewood, Pink Floyd, Vincent Gallo, Les Baxter, Serge Gainsbourg, Jack Kerouac, Charlie Christian, Francoise Hardy, John Fante, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Rimbaud, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, François Truffaut, Arvo Pärt, Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, Bruce Springsteen, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Luc Godard, U2, Franz Kafka, J.S. Bach, Nick Drake, Tchad Blake, Leonard Cohen, Brian Eno, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Delerue, Gram Parsons, Giacomo Puccini, Neu!, Kate Bush, Pietro Mascagni, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Agents, Topi Sorsakoski, Roy Orbison, early Genesis, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Stina Nordenstam, Mazzy Star, early King Crimson, Einstürzende Neubauten, Ry Cooder, Shriekback, J.J. Cale, The Velvet Underground, W. A. Mozart, Ennio Morricone, The Flying Burrito Brothers, George Gershwin, Townes Van Zandt, William S. Burroughs, Lucinda Williams, Steely Dan, Wojciech Kilar, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, Aki+Mika Kaurismäki, Jean Sibelius, Coleman Hawkins, Randy Newman, David Bowie, The Smiths, Sergei Eisenstein, Krtek, Paul Simon, Johannes Brahms, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Wilco, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Emmylou Harris, Kurt Weill, Jimmy Scott, Jackson C. Frank, David Lynch, Scott Walker just to name a few that came to mind.
Sounds Like: Music
Record Label: City Centre Offices / Büro
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Some new photos

In the pics section there’s a bunch of photos from our recent recording sessions.
Posted by The Gentleman Losers on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:53:00 PST

It’s in the mix

The new album is now in post-production. Mix it up and mix it down. And it is sounding very nice.
Posted by The Gentleman Losers on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:13:00 PST

New album in the works

Samu and Ville are locked down in the studio, and they've thrown away the key. The brothers are recording material for the next Gentleman Losers album. Once again all night recording sessions are to b...
Posted by The Gentleman Losers on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:43:00 PST