Progmatics

The Progmatics could be the funkiest music group in Finland. While their basis is metropolitan Finnish folk music, their improvisational strategy adds today’s sensibility with their audio. While RootsWorld stated they “appear to be in the bidding for the 1st spy-surf music group to emerge from Finland,” The Defeat announced that their “shows are as limited as one’s teeth of the comb the skin-headed three-quarters of the combo will never need.” Created during casual jam classes in 1993, the Progmatics in the beginning came together like a trio offering violinist Perttu Paappnen, accordion participant Markku Lepisto, and keyboards and harmonica participant Jouko Kyhala. A couple of months later on, bouzouki and saxophone participant Janne Lappalainen, of Finnish folk ensemble Varttina, was added. Released in Oct 1996, the Pragmatic’s debut recording, Vaarallinen Lehmankello (Lethal Cowbell), designated them as you of Finland’s best bands. Soon after the album’s launch, the Pragmtics had been named “music group of the entire year” by Finnish music journal Ussi Kansanmusiikki. In past due 1998, the Progmtics had been expanded by adding ex-Giant Robots drummer and percussionist Zarkus Bousse.