Licencing
Viola Music Club by Viola is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 1.0 Finland License. This means you can do anything you want with our music, just credit us and don't use it for commercial purposes (without paying us a lot o' money).
Donations
If you really really like what we do, but you don't want useless crap like t-shirts or cd's and can't make it to our shows, but still want to help us make music, you can just use Paypal to donate some money. This seriously is not why we do this, but since a lot of people have been asking whether or not we accept donations, why not... But we're not asking, we're humbly accepting, should someone want to contribute!
From now on everything we do will be free.
Everything we've made in the past is free as well.
Starting April 1st 2009, we'll be releasing 1 song each and every month on this site. At midnight on the 1st of the month. They'll all be in digital format only and completely free.
Please use the player on the right side of the page to stream our old stuff, or explore the albums to download either .zip-packages of entire albums or individual songs (click "Show tracks" from a given album).
That's it. We hope fans of physical records are not too disappointed. Those things just weren't making any more sense.
This way all the walls between us and you are down. No more waiting around. No more "promo period" or having to deal with distribution. Straight from our hearts to yours.
This month in Viola Music Club: were a-rockin'!
That's right! It's full-on 110% full steam ahead MIDI rock n' roll from the Viola camp this time.
This month's top achievement: fitting words like "ventriloquist" and "cardiologist" into a carefree indierock lyric.
Heart Breaks Into A Song (hifi)
Heart Breaks Into A Song (lofi)
Welcome to a new year of Viola Music Club, y'all!
To acknowledge the huge fact that we're transferring over to a whole new decade (and to put in our 2 cents into the debate whether it's "the two thousand tens" or "the twenty tens"), here's our highly topical and current track about... the new decade, the 2010s!
2010s (Maybe The World Won't End) (hifi)
2010s (Maybe The World Won't End) (lofi)
Sami Sänpäkkilä just finished his amazing job at making a cool music video for the song we wrote and produced for Bääbs for the Eurovision Song Contest! What can I say? WOW!
Season's Greetings to all you Music Clubbers!
As December is stalking upon us, it's time to get merry! Thus we present to you a sequel of sorts to our 2004 Christmas 7": This Year It Will Be Different!
This Year It Will Be Different (hifi)
This Year It Will Be Different (lofi)
Hi everybody!
To conclude our autumnal triptych of holy melancholy, we present to you a track by the name of No Connection, which might lyrically be one of the darkest Viola tracks yet, so it's fitting we're releasing it on All Hallows' Eve.
No Connection (hifi)
No Connection (lofi)
Dear friends,
As promised, we're continuing along the fall-time in melancholic tunes. Not as deeply wrapped in seas of sound as last month, but in distinctly autumnal tones.
Beautiful Lost Things (hifi)
Beautiful Lost Things (lofi)
Greetings, good people, followers of Viola Music Club!
Sadly, we had to kiss the shimmery summer of 2009 goodbye yesterday as we're now stepping into September and as always, it brings autumn along with it.
So obviously this means it's time to quiet down here at the club as well. It's been a particularly sweaty summer this year as far as our music goes, so it's definitely about time to cool down a bit with some far more mellow sounds.
Sea Curtain (hifi)
Sea Curtain (lofi)
We've asked some of our friends to provide us with Viola-playlists that they feel best represent our catalogue to help you nice people get started with checking out all the stuff we've done on the past.
First up, Arttu Tolonen. of Giant Robot, Black Audio and all other bands / artists (like Viola) that need his unparallelled skills on all kinds of redneck instruments.
Hi friends!
We've already reached the fifth track of this music club endeavour and this time we've done something we rarely do: recorded a cover song!
So here it is, fully Violated and translated to English: TV-Resistori's ever-so-wonderful 'Näen tanssivan sun uudestaan'!
Oh How You Dance (hifi)
Oh How You Dance (lofi)
Hi friends!
You can now also grab our entire discography as a torrent file from Laillisettorrentit.net
(That's "legal torrents dot net" in English, we wouldn't want to associate ourselves with any shady stuff now would we?)
UPDATE!
There's another option too. This one doesn't have everything zipped into one package, but has all the tracks separately, if you only wish to download a certain album or track.
Hi Friends!
Here's a little extra summertime treat for you nice people out there! In the end of 2005 we created a remix for our good friends Ultramariini for their third album Kauempana kuin kuu.
Ultramariini - Ikuisesti (Viola remix) (hifi)
Ultramariini - Ikuisesti (Viola remix) (lofi)
SUMMERTIME Y'ALL!!!
Even Finland has gotten a taste of real summer this year for a change, so obviously this calls for celebration and what better way to celebrate than with Viola's first official summer hit!
(Please also vote for S S (S-L-L L) in the Radio Helsinki summer hit 2009 finals!)
Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (hifi)
Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (lofi)
This month we've got something very special for you good people: a musical and lyrical retrospective on the first 10 years of Viola!
Track #2: Nobodylovers. Features the R. Kelly of Meilahti, R. Kärkkäinen on his rap debut. Not the most typical Viola-track again, but we really do like this one.
Nobodylovers (hifi)
Nobodylovers (lofi)
Ok, here we go. Our first free track for this website project...
Cute Destroyer (hifi)
Cute Destroyer (lofi)
You can access every single track we've released on physical records from the list on the right hand side of this page and use the player to stream them.
But if you just want to grab some mp3's, here's a few good links...
Viola Music Club (2010)
Viola Music Club (2009)
Melancholydisco 2 (2008)
Wonderabilia (2007)
Anything Can Stop Us (2005)
Melancholydisco (2005)
A Christmas 45 For You (2004)
Viola ♥ Iconcrash (2004)
Tearcandy (2004)
Acoustic Romantic 45 For The Jukebox In Your Heart (2003)
Escapist Pioneers (2002)
Only Pop Music Can Break Your Heart (2001)
