The Kroisos

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The Kroisos
The band: Ville Kantee, Olli Happonen, Jarkko Saapunki and Jussi Hautamäki (from left) 2008 in Frankfurt
The band: Ville Kantee, Olli Happonen, Jarkko Saapunki and Jussi Hautamäki (from left) 2008 in Frankfurt
General information
Genre (s) Craprock
founding 1997
Website www.the-kroisos.com
Current occupation
singing
 Ville Kantee
Jarkko Saapunki
Lead guitar
 Anssi Koivuranta
Jussi Hautamäki
Olli Happonen
former members
guitar
 Samppa Lajunen
Kimmo Korhola
Vocals, guitar
 Antti Kuisma

The Kroisos is a Finnish rock band. The band members were or are all professional winter sports enthusiasts and began a musical career as athletes. The current members, Ville Kantee (vocals, guitar), Jussi Hautamäki (bass), Olli Happonen (drums) and Jarkko Saapunki (guitar) came together through ski jumping, and in 2009 the Nordic combined athlete Anssi Koivuranta joined the band.

history

Live: The Kroisos after the 2008 ski jumping summer grand prix in Kirchzarten

The music-loving ski jumpers Ville Kantee (vocals, guitar) and Jarkko Saapunki (guitar, bass) - at that time both in the A-squad of the Finnish national ski jumping team - got together in 1992 at the suggestion of the national coach Mika Kojonkoski and founded a band, the Jumping Twins , who are at Ski jumping events should play. Her teammate Olli Happonen joined them in 1996 as a drummer. In 1995 and 1997, Kojonkoski organized a gala performance during the World Cup in Kuopio . At the performance in 1997 the Austrian jumper Andreas Felder and the German Hansjörg Jäkle were guests on the stage.

When the first single Ihanasti hukassa (German: wonderfully lost) was recorded in 1997 , the band changed its name to Kroisos. Saapunki left the band briefly to concentrate on his coaching activities, but returned after a year-long stay in Japan. He played guitar, was responsible as a lyricist and composer and also began to take over management for the band. When they performed together in 1999 with a band from the Finnish Nordic Combined , which called themselves Näköispatsas (German: statue) , the musicians decided to perform together in a band under the name Vieraileva Tähti in the future . From then on the line-up was Ville Kantee, Antti Kuisma (vocals, acoustic guitar), Samppa Lajunen (solo guitar), Jussi Hautamäki (bass), Kimmo Korhola (keyboard) and drummer Olli Happonen. From then on, the band was completely managed by Jarkko Saapunki, who helped the group to regularly appear at ski jumping and world cup events, Vieraileva Tähti could be described as the house band of Nordic skiing.

For the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti , Saapunki composed Sinivalkoiset taistelee (German: the blue-whites fight) , the theme song for the world championship. The song subsequently became the so-called “one player” for the Finnish ski jumpers at World Cup events, the song that is played for them at the opening of the competition.

In summer 2004, Kuisma, Lajunen and Korhola left the band. Ville Kantee , Jussi Hautamäki and Olli Happonen wanted to continue as professional musicians. So the band was called The Kroisos again from summer 2004 , Saapunki returned actively to the band as a guitarist. With this line-up, the band no longer only played at sporting events, but also appeared in clubs and events in Finland. Another single, Everyday is like Monday from the EP Don't Bury Me Alive , was released in 2005 and became a hit in Finland. The title received so much international attention that a video was produced at Eurosport Watts' request , the song is still on Finnish radio stations.

After successful performances at the Kuopio World Cup in 2007 and 2008 together with the Finnish ski jumping legend Matti Nykänen , the first international appearances followed in spring 2008 with a small tour (The Kroisos Jumping Tour 2008) with concerts in Lahti, Würzburg and Frankfurt . In 2009 they played concerts as part of a tour through Germany and Poland. In the summer they also played a gig at the Simerock Festival in Rovaniemi , Finland , where the band was first supported on guitar by Anssi Koivuranta . In the summer of 2010 he was announced as the band's new rhythm guitarist.

The Kroisos are now working with the "Osasto-A" label.

style

The band's style is predominantly rock, Kroisos themselves refer to their style of music as "craprock". Initially, The Kroisos played mainly cover versions of well-known artists in addition to a few of their own pieces. Over time, however, Kantee, Kuisma, Lajunen, Korhola and Saapunki have composed many of their own pieces, so that mostly their own songs are played in the concert program. In the first few years Kantee sang mainly in Finnish, but today's songs are written exclusively in English and are written by Kantee and Saapunki.

Discography

Albums

  • Panda Eyes, released May 20, 2009

Singles

  • Meillä kaikilla on Taikamme
  • Ihanasti hukassa
  • EP Kaksinaamainen (as Näköispatsas)
  • Sinivalkoiset taistelee
  • EP Don't Bury Me Alive
  • Everyday Is Like Monday
  • Someone to Hold On (March 8, 2009)
  • NLC

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.the-kroisos.com/2010/05/27/anssi-k-liittyy-bandiin-savon-keikoille/
  2. ↑ http://www.the-kroisos.com/about/jarkko/

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