Jessie Ware rose to fame with her 2012 album “Devotion”. Her take on soul and R&B coloured with dubstep is known from such hits as Wildest Moments and Running. New album “Tough Love” to be released later this year!
Jessie Ware
(UK)
Skrillex
(US)
A true genius or everything the genre should stand against? From the very first steps of his dubstep career, Sonny Moore, a.k.a. Skrillex, has gained a huge amount of fans and enemies.The year 2014 will be remembered as the point of history when things for Skrillex changed. The artist is going through a metamorphosis. Witnessing a Skrillex gig one can never now whats coming up. But one thing is for certain: these explosive performances have consisted of converting non-believers to raging Skrillex fandom at the most surprising sites. Most recently, in Glastonbury. Now at Flow Festival.
One of the biggest Finnish groups known for its catchy folk-pop-rock songs brush their americana with 80s-inspired synth pop through the release of the widely praised album “Terminal 2” early this year. This August in Suvilahti, Scandinavian Music Group will perform a special and strongly visual “T2” show – for the eyes and ears of Flow Festival 2014 visitor only.
Scandinavian Music Group (FI)
Swedish electropop artist Jenny Wilson’s fourth album Demand The Impossible was released last autumn. The record pleased both fans and critics and now Wilson is the recent winner of Swedish Grammis awards, for the best album, best music production and best video together with Daniel Wirtberg with the video Autobiography.
Jenny Wilson
(SE) (SE)
Plain Ride
Formed in 2004, Plain Ride have gone a long way from the stripped-down folkrock expression of their early years to the dark beauty of their latest album Skeleton Kites. The band’s effortless groove and Janne Westerlund’s hoarse vocals gets both the more meditative tunes and hypnotic boogie songs lifted into higher spheres.
(FI) (FI)
Sarah Kivi & Non-Orchestra Singer Sarah Kivi teams up with producer Non Personin (Niclas Kristiansson) to create whole knitting together a strong rhythmic fabric of bass lines and electronic soundscape.
(FI)
Eetu Floor & Ystävät (FI)
Eetu Floor’s music combines Finnish melancholy with French lightness rising to fame with the single release of Purjehtija. This year, the Flow Festival crowd gets to enjoy material from the upcoming “Ystävät” debut album – to be released on September 5th – in advance on Flow Saturday, August 9th.
Astrid Swan
(FI) Having released her latest, minimalistically blooming album “Astrid4” last year’s October, the dramatic Finnish singer-songwriter presents the audience a truly rare 2014 appearance at Flow Festival.
His style being referred as “blue wave” and“ slacker rock”, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist rose from obscurity as Makeout Videotape.
Mac DeMarco
(CA)
The Norwegian two-headed electro monster teams up with international pop star Robyn and her gritty R&B combined with sunny Swedish pop.
Röyksopp and Robin Do It Again 2014 (NO/SE) (NO/SE)
Saint Lucia
(ZA)
The atmospheric quality of Jean-Philip Grobler’s Brooklyn-based electro-pop project is powerful, with the musician’s global travels and history of secret hideaways effortlessly passed onto the audience through his dreamy, shimmering synths.
High Wolf
(FR)
In between Herzog’s Aguirre and Levi Strauss’ Sad Tropics, mysterious and psychoactive, High Wolf’s music mixes cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths, mystic vocals and tribal percussions, inspired by primitive and ritual music as well as adventurous modern music.
A grinding Dj duo, designer Tiia Vanhatapio & Stockholm based producer/musician Tom Hakava, that is obsessed about them classics. Weather it’s underwear or the eclectic mix of 50s–60s R’n’B, Soul, Boogaloo, Psych and good ol’ Rock and Roll. It´s not what you might expect.
Calvin Girls Monopoly Child Star Searchers The creative audio project of Spencer Clark. The sounds examine esoteric and spiritual concepts through hypnotic layers of rhythm and melody.
(US) (US)
(FI)
Sound & Fury
(FI) (FI)
Peeps of the late, great Edward Vesala.
Two Flemish engineer students who don’t only love their sciences cold. Their debut LP ‘Manifold’ harks back to the misanthropic aesthetics of Belgium’s wave era.
Maan Maan
(BE) (BE)
Guided by the saxophonist’s intensity of purpose. Parker’s work, spanning for over 30 years, has been widely acknowledged as “one of the music’s greatest living instrumentalists” (The Times) and “one of the world’s finest ensemble improvisers” (The Wire).
Evan Parker
(UK)
The Paris-based Japanese musician / sound artist plays with different forms of water – drops, waves and bubbles.
Tomoko Sauvage
(JP/FR)
Miaux
Armed with a Casio and devastating song writing skills. Her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless, somewhere between Roedelius, Ruth White and electronic realisations of Baroque music.
Nuslux
(FI)
Strong and hard-edged minimal electronic sounds combined with silly melodies create a psychedelic trip to D.I.Y.-electrified fantasy park.