Love Records

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For the American record label, see Sean Combs.

Love Records was a

ethnic music
.

Love released 384

Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti
, who also released their records on Love. The famous Love Records logo was designed by Harri Manner.

In the 1970s Love Records released most of the important Finnish rock bands and artists:

M.A. Numminen; and later on also such punk and new wave artists as Maukka Perusjätkä, and also Briard and Pelle Miljoona, which were Andy McCoy's bands before Hanoi Rocks
.

Of the political bands signed to Love Records, some of the most notable are Agit-Prop and KOM-Teatteri [fi]. Also Kaisa Korhonen, Aulikki Oksanen and Kristiina Halkola [fi] were some female singers known for Love's political albums, where songs were often penned by such people as Kaj Chydenius and Eero Ojanen [fi]. Often these were cabaret-type songs in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill or even Finnish translations of the songs by Brecht and Weill.

Love Records went bankrupt in 1979. Their last release was Kari Peitsamo's album Pölypilleri. Atte Blom continued after Love with his new label, Johanna Kustannus. Love Records' back catalog has been re-released on CD by Siboney [fi].

On 4 July 2016 the label was resurrected with the release of

Olet mun kaikuluotain
".

See also

  • List of record labels

References

  1. ISBN 1-56159-284-6
    .

Further reading

External links
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