Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
With the recent PJ Rautiainen solo album posted here, some of you requested the two CD he recorded with HOUSE OF MIRRORS; “Nightflight To Paradise” and “Desolation”. This band from Finland was in fact a duo consisting of PJ on vocals & songwriting and guitarist / songwriter Jaakko Niitemaa accompanied by seasoned musicians. Each album are pretty different, “Nightflight To...
Requested by one of you, here’s the out of print, Finland only release by exquisite singer / songwriter PJ RAUTIAINEN, titled “Secret Isle”. PJ (Pekka) sang on 2 excellent Melodic Rock albums with the band HOUSE OF MIRRORS during the 2000s, but left that band to start a solo career which resulted in “Secret Isle”, his full-length debut album from 2010, a delicious slice of classy AOR tunes.
While searching for PJ’s news / new material, it was shocking to read that he passed away in 2017. A great loss, such young and talented musician… A Scandinavian music collector (friend of 0dayrox’s team) provided us with 3 unreleased songs RAUTIAINEN recorded few years ago in collaboration with another gifted Finnish musician: Tomi Malm.
* With new year 2014 arriving soon many melodic rock acts are preparing the release of new material, while others anxiously look forward for their debuts to be finally released.We have here an interesting bunch of advanced tracks / singles from some of them that will see the light of day soon. Some are already established acts, some are really...
