ONSÉGEN ENSEMBLE

This psych/prog collective come from a remote city in Finland, and have their eyes on the festival scene.

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Our far-out trip to far-flung prog An isolated city on the northern west coast of Finland, Oulu has long been home to a slew of weird sounding bands, and Onségen Ensemble are joining the club. “Progressive rock in Oulu has kind of this psychedelic thing going on,” says their bassist Esa Juujärvi. “There’s not so many people living here, so there’s not many prog bands either. But if you take into account that there are only 150,000 people, we do have a lot of bands [in general].” Their newest album, Realms, was produced by ex-Messenger member, and master of the ‘vintage/modern’ sound, Jaime Gomez Arellano. The group use a gargantuan, nine-piece line-up to make the most maximalist of psychedelic rock. On the tune Naked Sky an army of vocalists sings atop…

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