Zen Café

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Zen Café
Kari Nylander (bass) and Pete Parkkonen (drums) from Zen Café in Tavastia club, Helsinki, 2006-04-16.
Kari Nylander (bass) and Pete Parkkonen (drums) from Zen Café in Tavastia club, Helsinki, 2006-04-16.
Background information
Origin Flag of Finland Turku, Finland
Genre(s) Rock
Years active 1992-present
Website www.zencafe.net
Members
Kari Nylander, Pete Parkkonen, Samuli Putro
Former members
Tuomo Mäki-paavola, Mikko Oesch


Zen Café is a Finnish rock band that was founded in Turku in 1992. Since the late 1990s, the band has been quite popular in Finland, but it hasn't gained popularity in other countries – then again, there has never been an attempt to export the band outside Finland, most likely simply because all of the group's songs are in Finnish.

The band named itself after the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig at the suggestion of band's bassist Kari Nylander. Other original members were Samuli Putro (vocals, guitar), Mikko Oesch (guitar) and Tuomo Mäki-paavola (drums). Oesch soon left the group and Mäki-paavola was replaced by Pete Parkkonen (drums).

[edit] Current line-up

  • Samuli Putro – vocals, guitar, lyrics
  • Kari Nylander – bass
  • Pete Parkkonen – drums
  • Sam Hatch Web Designer

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

  • Romuna (1997) (English: As a wreck)
  • Idiootti (1998) (English: Idiot)
  • Ua ua (1999)
  • Helvetisti järkeä (2001) (English: Hell lot of sense)
  • Vuokralainen (2002) (English: Tenant)
  • Jättiläinen (2003, anthology) (English: Giant)
  • Laiska, tyhmä ja saamaton (2005) (English: Lazy, stupid, and indolent)
  • Stop (2006)

[edit] External links


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