2012. Musician. Artist. Philosopher. Obsessive. Enthusiast. Innovator. Bullshitter. Joker. Gentleman. Beast. These are only a few of the paradoxical faces of the underground cottage industry known as Jussi Lehtisalo..

2015. "What a great atmosphere on this album! Brilliant compositions and lyrics. The soundscapes and textures are just wonderful, and so are the mixes. Unresistable, yet savagely melancholic groove throughout t..

2021. With a title meaning 'I Lived One Day At A Time', here is the sixth solo album by the Circle leader Jussi Lehtisalo. The songs are about, and inspired by 'Montparnasse 19', a French film from 1958, which tells..

2021. A deep and complex collection of sounds exploring the themes of movement, light, and shadow. Jussi Lehtisalo's seventh solo album 'Elämä'.

2013. In a small country disproportionately packed with maverick musical madmen, Finland's Jussi Lehtisalo is arguably the maddest of them all. With a genre-defying career that spans nearly 20 years and nearly 100 d..

2023. Effortlessly, your feet work the ultra-clean clock signal, as you march deeper into the cavernous mining meshwork of the ever Fraggle-rocking druidic Doozers. Down toward The Nexus, eyes popping from their met..

2023. It's hard to decide whether the ultimate value of Jussi Lehtisalo's 8th full-length solo outing lies in its startlingly clear but throughly unorthodox musical vision - kilometres ahead of nearly anyone else's ..

2019. The first release in the 'Full Contact Synthwave Series' is the debut offering from Lazer Angel, an electronic duo comprised of Jussi Lehtisalo and Bruce Duff. Both musicians have been involved in countless ba..

2019. This 7" by Dekathlon portrays the contemporary plague of smart phone induced attention deficit disorder. For this leg of their synth wave crusade, Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) and Janne Peltomäki (Pelago..

2019. Aquatic electro meets Düsseldorf School as Finnish synth rockers perform long overdue exhumation of what should have been Electroclash 2.0! A much anticipated follow-up for the first season of Televisio's..

2019. The synth wave that's been hammering Ektroland in recent years is now banging at the door of Pharaoh Overlord Synthesizer Club with ear-splitting frequencies soaring down across the Moog bass lines. A concocti..

2019. The synth wave that's been hammering Ektroland in recent years is now banging at the door of Pharaoh Overlord Synthesizer Club with ear-splitting frequencies soaring down across the Moog bass lines. A concocti..

2020. The intercontinental rock trio Aktor's sophomore album 'Placebo'. Drawing from '70s heavy rock and '80s Top 40 pop alike, the album is fit to lead the Adult Contemporary Heavy Metal genre for 2020. A musical p..

2020. The intercontinental rock trio Aktor's sophomore album 'Placebo'. Drawing from '70s heavy rock and '80s Top 40 pop alike, the album is fit to lead the Adult Contemporary Heavy Metal genre for 2020. A musical p..

2020. Pharaoh Overlord's current duo of Tomi Leppnen and Jussi Lehtisalo first channelled their love of krautrock-damaged monomania into synth-driven motorik soundscapes on 2019's '5'. yet this next exploration t..

2020. Pharaoh Overlord's current duo of Tomi Leppänen and Jussi Lehtisalo first channelled their love of krautrock-damaged monomania into synth-driven motorik soundscapes on 2019's '5'. yet this next exploratio..

2023. Early in 2020 Lehtisalo and Baker began trading sounds over the internet - fragmentary keyboard licks and textural guitar riffs, retro electro beats and pulsing bass lines - slowly constructing them into songs..

2020. A new and exciting band. The group (Jussi Lehtisalo - bass and guitar & Samae Koskinen - vocals, drums, bass, guitar) draws their influence from the likes of Sodom, Xysma, Iron Maiden, Annihilator, Autopsy..

2023. The second album from Finnish experimental band featuring members of the legendary Circle. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Fin..

2023. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music. Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypno..

2020. On their fourth album Pakasteet operate at the apoplectic end of the avant hip hop spectrum. The duo project of Ektro-entrepreneur Jussi Lehtisalo and filmmaker Mika Taanila collaborate this time with the rapp..

2004. Aki Peltonen was born 1963 and lives in Pori, Finland. He is better known as sound technician but have worked for many years with his own project, Radio Banana. His main instrument is accordion, but he is skil..

2023. The second album from Finnish experimental band featuring members of the legendary Circle. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Fin..

2023. Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music. Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypno..

2012. The debut full length album from CIRCLE's bassman Jussi Lehtisalo's metal band Arkhamin Kirjasto. "Here's something interesting and definitely different for a change. This is a diverse-sounding record, th..

2001. Jussi Lehtisalo, guitarist & keyboard player of CIRCLE and EKTROVERDE has created a psychedelic hypnotising ethereal journey with his musicminded family. Based around the music of CIRCLE and EKTROVERDE, th..

2008. Circle: No beginning and no end, and when you think youve come upon the conclusion youre back at the start. Perhaps this describes Circle's compositional work ethic more than anything. Circle is a west coast r..

2009. Doktor Kettu sounds like a rock'n'roll band being thrown down a well in low gravity. Years ago they hid themselves in a small cottage by the sea, only to emerge later as a stream of CD-R releases documenting t..

2009. Kauko Royhka, Mikka Ratto and Jussi Lehtisalo (bassist of CIRCLE) began collaborating on an album last year. "Hiekkarantaa" is the debut album of this band.

2009. Lusiferiinin Armosta is a trio which comprises guitarist/vocalist Jussi Lehtisalo (of Circle, Pharaoh Overlord and Ratto ja Lehtisalo) and the fumbling rhythm section of Tuomas Laurila and Eetu Henttonen. The ..

2010.  Grumbling fur are daniel o'sullivan (guapo, mothlite, miasma & the carousel of headless horses, aethenor, ulver) alexander tucker, antti uusimaki (mothlite, panic dhh) jussi lehtisalo (circle, p..

2020. Cream, Traveling Wilburys, Humble Pie, Susi-Unto... all supergroups have their stories to tell. Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Pharaoh Overlord, Steel Mammoth etc.) got to know Janne M&..

2011. Now available on mega-limited clear vinyl, 300 only for the world. Grumbling Fur was borne from a day long improvisation in deep dark south London... A smattering of Fins and Englishmen chatter, chant and chim..

2011. Brazilian import. The most contemporary document of a Circle concert experience. Reinforced by an expanded line-up -Circle's brothers-in-arms Pharaoh Overlord-, the band explores the experimental possibilities..

2012. The debut full length album from CIRCLE's bassman Jussi Lehtisalo's metal band Arkhamin Kirjasto. "Here's something interesting and definitely different for a change. This is a diverse-sounding record,..

2019. Inspired by early Tuxedomoon's bittersweet melodies, Negativland's angular collage attacks, the looseness of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel 'House Of Leaves' and the mind-boggling short films by John Smith, here ..

2014. Circle: No beginning and no end, and when you think you've come upon the conclusion you're back at the start. Perhaps this describes Circle's compositional work ethic more than anything. Circle is a west coast..

2015. Beefed-up, blown-out, and ballsy, the new Finnish supergroup Bensiini finds Circle members Janne Westerlund, Jussi Lehtisalo, and Mika Ratto revisiting their noise-rock roots with help from Sokea Piste guitari..

2015. Edition on black vinyl, presented in a heavy cardboard cover and including lyric sheet. Aktor is a collaboration between Chris "The Professor" Black (High Spirits, Dawnbringer) and Jussi Lehtisalo an..

2015.  - out of control feat.  Jussi lehtisalo (circle),metal avenger feat.  Fast eddie clarke (motorhead,kings of thunder and lightning feat.  Scott carls,master of revenge f..

2016. 'Pori' is much more than just the fifth studio album by the Finnish experimental-rock institution Circle. It's also the name of a small post-industrial city near the Gulf of Bothnia, where Jussi Lehtisalo foun..

2016. Sakset is a collaboration of Finnish sound artists Läjä Äijälä (Terveet Kädet, Death Trip, The Kolmas, The Sultans...), Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle). T..

2017. Iron Magazine is a cross-continental team-up between Danko Jones and John Calabrese from Danko Jones, and Jussi Lehtisalo and Tomi Leppänen from Circle. With such a pedigree, the resultant sound of 'Queen..

2017. The debut-album of the Finnish avant-electro band Televisio, featuring Ilari Larjosto (Tähtiportti, Jesse etc.) and Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Steel Mammoth etc.).

2015. Beefed-up, blown-out, and ballsy, the new Finnish supergroup Bensiini finds Circle members Janne Westerlund, Jussi Lehtisalo, and Mika Ratto revisiting their noise-rock roots with help from Sokea Piste guitari..

2019. Dekathlon sounds like an unholy alliance of majestic nonchalance of Vangelis and better-to-burn-out era Neil Young coupled with the dreamscapes of Kavinsky. Unpretentious from the exterior, the stained-glass u..