Kingston Wall was a psychedelic/progressive rock group from Helsinki, Finland. They were formed in 1987. Influenced by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, the group combined eastern themes, mysticism and vivid psychedelia with their unique, hard-edged acid-rock. Psychedelic music is a musical genre which is not rigorously defined, and is sometimes interpreted to include everything from Flower Power music to Hard Rock and Acid Rock. ... Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix (27 November 1942 – 18 September 1970) was an African American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ... Led Zeppelin was a British rock band, who were pivotal in the development of hard rock and heavy metal, and became one of the most popular and influential bands of all time. ... Pink Floyd (formed in 1965 in Cambridge, England) are a British progressive rock band, noted for their progressive compositions, sonic experimentation, album art and live shows. ... The term Eastern can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... Mysticism, from the Greek (mueo, to conceal), is the pursuit of achieving communion with, or conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct, personal experience (intuition or insight) rather than rational thought; the belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... Acid rock is a form of psychedelic music and was the first form of it to achieve popular acclaim. ...

Group members were Petri Walli (guitars, lead vocals, b. 1969, d.1995), Jukka Jylli (bass, backing vocals) and Sami Kuoppamäki (drums, percussion). Walli was clearly the leader of the band - he formed the group, composed most of the songs and wrote all the lyrics. He was also Kingston Wall's producer and manager and even ran the band's own Trinity record label (under a pseudonym Pedro Cucaracha, an alias of a villain in an old Lucky Luke comic book). Perhaps even the band name was partially formed out of Walli's surname. The founder, vocalist, guitar-player, songwriter and the producer of a Finnish psychedelic rock-band called Kingston Wall. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jukka Jylli is a Finnish bass-player who played in a band called Kingston Wall. ... Sami Kuoppamäki (born 1971) is a Finnish drummer who has been a very prolific jazz and popular music session musician after the break-up of his early-90s band, Kingston Wall. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... A stereotypical villain. ... Lucky Luke (left) on the cover of Yo y Yo, a Spanish periodical Lucky Luke is a French language comic book series. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Kingston Wall released their first album, Kingston Wall (later referenced and re-released as I) in 1992 under the Trinity label. Their debut album consisted mainly of psychedelic hard rock along with a cover of Jimi Hendrix' song "Fire", which gained the group instant popularity among the Finnish radio stations. The album culminated in the heavily progressive, 21-minute track, "Mushrooms".

Their second album, II, was released in February 1993. This time the group brought in some more acoustic and folk elements to their songs, like acoustic guitars and violins in song "Istwan" (violin played by Ufo Mustonen) and saxophones in "Shine On Me" (saxophone played by Sakari Kukko). They even included a cross-genre cover version of the Donna Summer disco classic "I Feel Love". Look up Acoustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the study of sound, a branch of physics, see acoustics. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Ufo Mustonen is a Finnish violinist, who played in the song Istwan by Kingston Wall. ... A Finnish saxophone-player who played in the great songs Shine on Me and The Real Thing by Kingston Wall. ... Cross-genre is a term that refers to fiction or media, such as movies, books, or video games, that blend themes from two or more genres, such as fantasy and science fiction. ... Donna Summer on the cover of her 1993 collection The Donna Summer Anthology Donna Summer (born Donna Andrea Gaines on December 31, 1948) is an American pop music singer best known for a string of disco music hits in the 1970s that earned her the title Queen of Disco. // Career... Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world, and derives its name from the French word discothèque...

The third and last album from Kingston Wall, III - Tri-Logy, was released in autumn 1994. It was a very different album compared to the two previous ones as it included more harder rock than the two previous ones, at times combined even into dub reggae with some techno music and synthesizers arranged by Kimmo Kajasto (from Koneveljet and Rinneradio). Most of the lyrics in Tri-Logy have almost religious philosophical/mythological tone in them, and they are partially based on the Bock Saga, an eccentric explanation about the origins of the alphabets, words and the whole human history. It has been suggested that Dub reggae be merged into this article or section. ... Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... RinneRadio is a trio of musicians from Finland. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Philosophy (from the Greek words philos and sophia meaning love of wisdom) is understood in different ways historically and by different philosophers. ... This article is about a system of myths. ... In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being normal. ... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Words has several meanings: words in Unix. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ...

This story of Bock Saga was told by Ior Bock, a man Petri Walli knew well and most likely got to know him during his trips to Goa, India, where Bock used to stay at wintertime and tell his tales. When Tri-Logy was released, Petri Walli said in an interview that it was probably the most expensive self-financed album made ever made in Finland. Tri-Logy was also considered by many as an almost megalomanic rock-epic in reminiscent of Pink Floyd's The Wall album. The last song on the album, "The Real Thing", runs for 18 minutes and again features Sakari Kukko on saxophone along with ambient synthesizer pads played by Kimmo Kajasto. Ior Bock in 1989 Ior Bock né Bror Holger Svedlin (born January 17, 1942 claims that his family-line (Boxström) have been keepers of a folklore tradition passed down through the generations, explaining the headon culture of Finland and its history. ... Goa (गोवा in Devanāgarī) is Indias smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. ... The Wall is a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd. ...

Kingston Wall was well known from their outstanding live performances. The band held their own Freak-Out Club three times in Helsinki. They started playing live from small local pubs and eventually the band was so popular that they could sell out the biggest clubs in Helsinki. Kingston Wall played their last public show in Lepakko, Helsinki on December 1994 and their last show ever was some days later in Sörnäinen' prison at Helsinki. After this, the band called it quits in a local cafeteria and each of the members went on their separate ways. Walli left for India and shortly after his return to Finland, on the 28th of June, 1995, he jumped to his death from the tower of Töölö's church in central Helsinki. It was the end for Kingston Wall. Walli was later buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery, only about one kilometer away from his place of death. Jump to: navigation, search Sörnäinen (Sörnäs in Swedish) is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Töölö as seen from the Helsinki Olympic Stadium tower Töölö is a district of Helsinki, Finland. ... A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ... The Hietaniemi cemetery is located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. ...

All the original Kingston Wall albums and singles under the Trinity label have been since sold out and became precious collector's items. Before his death, Walli had made a printing/distribution deal into Japan, and the trilogy had been released in Japan by the record label Zero in 1995. However, there was a huge demand for Kingston Wall's albums and they were so hard to find even in Finland that local stores bought import copies from Japan. Subsequently also the Zero releases were sold out.

The trilogy was re-issued by a Finnish record label Zen Garden in 1998. A limited amount of 1000 copies included a bonus CD along with each of the three original remastered albums. The limited re-issues sold out quickly. The bonus CD's contained single B-sides and previously unreleased live recordings. In 2000, a remix album titled Freakout Remixes was released. This tribute album included techno and psychedelic trance remixes of the original Kingston Wall songs, made by such top-notch Finnish artists as Accu, Squaremeat and Texas Faggott. A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that develop a single theme even though they are generally created at different times. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... Trance is an altered state of consciousness. ... Squaremeat Squaremeat are Pepe Kosminen and Francoise Faggott, a psychedelic trance duo from Helsinki, Finland. ... Texas Faggott Texas Faggott are Pentti Slayer and Tim Thick, a psychedelic trance project from Finland, founded in 1996 with a third member, Francoise Faggott. ...

Although Kingston Wall never played outside Finland apart from one gig in Tallinn, Estonia during their early days, the group is considered even by many Finns as one of the country's best hard rock groups. Their albums have appeared on the Finnish Top 40 album charts. The tremendous cult status of Kingston Wall has also gained them a steadily growing fan base around the world, mostly thanks to the Internet and MP3's. County Harju County Mayor Tõnis Palts Area 159. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ... Jump to: navigation, search MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardised in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). ...

After a long period of silence, a live CD box set will be released from Kingston Wall. It is due to be out in Finland on September 14., 2005. The box set will feature three CD's recorded from various gigs during the bands existence. The tracks were selected to this album by bass player Jukka Jylli.

Discography

Albums:

• I (1992) Trinity TTYCD 0002
• II (1993) Trinity TTYCD 0004
• III - Tri-Logy (1994) Trinity TTYCD 0006
• Freakout Remixes (2000) Zen Garden GAR 29
• Real Live Thing (3CD box set) (2005) SonyBMG Finland CD 82876705242 - release date September 14.

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• We Cannot Move/She's So Fine/I Feel Love/Between the Trees (1993)
• Stüldt Håjt/Have You Seen the Pyg-mies?/Time (1994)
• The Real Thing, Radio Edits (1994)

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External links

• The Mirrorland (official site)