Bel Vel, aka Jussu Pöyhönen, introduces himself as a crooner with one foot in americana and the other in alternative pop. Such combination results in elegantly crafted songs. For Bel Vel’s newest song, Motion, artist Leevi Lehtinen has created a beautiful video that seems to place the band in a little music box in your bedroom.
The life and death of bluesman Robert Johnson is one of the major myths in American music. Not only he sold his soul to the devil, but he was (allegedly) poisoned to death at the age of 27. At the time, the death of a black musician did not deserve to be investigated and therefore the possible murdered was never found.
Almost 75 years later, Finnish band Them Bird Things has solved the mystery. Singer Salla Day claims I know who killed Robert Johnson when singing the band’s latest release, a stomping acoustic blues number with barrelhouse piano and washboard.
I Know Who Killed Robert Johnson is included in the band’s forthcoming third album Pachyderm Nightmares, which will be out this autumn.