Piknik (2025)

Label: Nordic Notes - NN192
Released: 2025

Quarterly Critics’ Choice Nominee – German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, World Music) 2/2025.

TOP 20 of World Music Charts Europe March 2025!

“Uusikuu could just be the house band at the cosy local tavern of your dreams, with warm, relaxed vocals backed by accordion and fiddle, playing beloved standards and originals that sound like they should be standards.”
(Wif Stenger, Songlines)

“It’s always a pleasure to hear world music of this quality that is moving and poignant while also demonstrating deep respect for its traditional roots.”
(Joe Ross, Roots Music Report)

“I find myself open to good party music these days, and nobody makes party music better than the Finnish group Uusikuu.”
(Gary Whitehouse, A Green Man Review)

“Das Album ist ein Gute-Laune-Garant mit feurigen Tangos aus dem Akkordeonhimmel, verträumten Walzern mit Geigenschmalz, frechen finnischen Jenkkas und Humppas und unfassbar leichtfüßigem Swing. Als i-Tüpfelchen kommt stets der hintersinnig-finnische Humor dazu.”
(Udo Hinz, Folker)

“Mit dieser musik können alle glücklich sein.”
(Concerto Magazine)

On a Nordic August evening, we gather with treats to celebrate summer in a joyful atmosphere. Uusikuu serve up a vibrant mix of musical delights under the Northern Lights with their sixth album, Piknik (February 2025, Nordic Notes). It’s a feast of rousing rhythms, deep emotions, romance, and drama—an ode to the exuberance of life.

Finland, crowned the world’s happiest country for the seventh time, embodies onni (happiness), subtle humor, and quirky anecdotes, but also solitude and silence. Since 2006, Uusikuu (New Moon) has been reviving old Finnish dance music with a fresh, dynamic twist. Far from the genre’s melancholic roots, their “Vintage Sounds of Finland” pay tribute to the country’s dance music from the 1930s to the 1960s, with occasional nods to the ‘70s and ‘80s. And as devoted Eurovision fans, they can’t resist weaving in playful references to the legendary contest!

Join Uusikuu’s musical picnic, where happiness is served in bite-sized melodies, and everyone is welcome to sing along! 

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