Sepikka & Pambikallio – Malmi Summer of Events

Be enchanted by Pambikallio’s ethereal dream-pop and Sepikka’s unique and distinctively roaring pop!

Before the concerts, you get to build your own flower crown for this summer night at the Taito Etelä-Suomi ry’s workshop! Don’t forget about our Saturday flea markets, if there’s anything you want to sell.

Come and spend an unforgettable summer day at Ala-Malmi Park! Youth café Malmi Coffee is open on the day of the event from 1 pm.

PROGRAMME:
3 pm to 6 pm
Flower Crown workshop
Join us to create the flower crown of your dreams!

This non-stop workshop is a place where every participant gets to unleash their creativity and create their own, fantastic flower crown with the help of a professional teacher.

Flower crowns are made of woven flowers, leaves and other natural decorations, and are traditional accessories used in many cultures and ceremonies everywhere in the world. Flower crowns have been used since antiquity and historically, they have been thought of as symbols of beauty, youth, and celebration.

Location: Ala-Malmi Park workshop area

5 pm to 6 pm
Sepikka
Sepikka’s sound is great but fragile, just like a gusting storm. Seppänen’s roaring pop seems to have been inspired by streams, silence, and all kinds of growing and calming powers.

The man behind the name Sepikka is Joni Seppänen, who won various awards and nominations with his 2021 debut album. The artist’s distinctive world leads listeners to identify with animals, praise friendship and make astute observations of people and the time we live in. There is a strong undercurrent of being frustrated with the modern efficiency mindset and the abuse of nature. Their distinctive soundscape has been compared with Grammy Award-winning Bon Iver.

The artist has created a world that is also musically unique: an open, rough band sound combined with sampling aesthetics and classical instruments. Strings, horns and pianos have a loud, at times broken place in this music. On the surface, Sepikka feels like a gentle hobby project, dabbling with nature in a child-like manner. But the calm bubbling under the surface will suddenly swell into an unexpectedly breathtaking sprint through foggy fields in the dead of winter.

Sepikka’s debut album, En kestä kylmää lailla ahvenen (2021), was awarded Album of the Year at the Indie Awards gala, in addition to which venerated Soundi magazine chose it as the newcomer of the year, as well as receiving two nominations at the Emma gala. The debut album was also nominated for the highly respected Nordic Music Prize.

Sepikka released their highly expected second album, Ei koskaan rakkaudella, in February 2024. So far, the album has only been reviewed very well.

7 pm to 8 pm
Pambikallio
Pambikallio’s Finnish-language psychedelic pop has charmed audiences since the band’s first releases.

The band’s star in the sky of indie music lit up in 2022, as they evolved from a duo consisting of Pauliina Koivusaari and Lauri Kallio into an energetic five-member live band.

Pambikallio’s hazy, glittering and resonant dreampop core is complemented with delightfully swinging, buzzing and psychedelic sounds. The result is universal and holistic. All the details are so clearly in place that it’s obvious: you can always find something new in the band’s music.

The band’s second album, ‘Parc de Pambi’ was released in October 2023 under Helmi Levyt. With Parc de Bambi, the band’s sound has developed to a more grand and dramatic direction. The genre of the album and its references go from place to place; the atmosphere fluctuates from dramatically pompous to ethereal drifting, and from child-like boisterousness to otherworldly fervour.

The band’s debut album was released in March 2022. Their self-titled album was received with enthusiasm by both audiences and critics. In 2022, the band received the spotlight on the YleX Läpimurto 2022 list, as well as was nominated at the Indie Awards and the Femma gala.

The band started as a duo and has now grown to be a five-person live ensemble with new additio