Скачать или смотреть Jimi Sumén - 'Cause It's Not Too Late (1978 Finnish English Hard Rock / Psychedelic Blues Rock)

Track 05 from "Key West" (1978). Featuring great riffage. Guitar solo: 2:32

Track listing:
01) Fleet Street 64
02) Your Day
03) Backroads (Instrumental)
04) If It's Too Loud
05) 'Cause It's Not Too Late
06) Hammingway Sam
07) You're A Punk
08) Miami Mammie
08) Hillage Boogie
09) Night Time

Born Jouko Tapani Sumén in 1959, he began his career in the latter half of the 1970s, as a teenager, playing hard rock and blues rock in a power trio format. And after adapting a style and look reminiscent of his idol, Jimi Hendrix, from whom, he would not only borrow a stylized first name, but cover live on stage, he received his earliest exposure. Wowing crowds with his enthusiastic, inspired playing and theatrics, such as playing with his teeth and behind his back.

In 1978, he was signed by Love Records, for whom, rounding out, and varying his style (and also rounding out his English singing), Sumén recorded his debut album, "Key West", a funk and New Wave-influenced psychedelic hard rock album, on which, he played most of the instruments himself, though he was joined occasionally by Veijo Naakka on bass, and Lauri Valjakka on drums, with Ari Erkko on guitar. (The album, now a rarity [and currently not reissued], is highly collectable, and highly valuable, with original copies allegedly selling for large sums.)

By 1979, wanting to expand his sound, Sumén recruited additional musicians, Illi Broman (drums/percussion), Johnny Gustafsson (drums/percussion/vocals), and Kari Virta (keyboards/vocals), and under the name (Jimi Sumén) Projekt, recorded 1980's "Screenplay" , which drew on more electronic influences. However, internal conflicts pulled the band apart, and so, for 1981's "Between Orient And Accidents", which included a cover of David Bowie's 1974 hit, 'Rebel Rebel', although similar in style to "Screenplay", Sumén elected to record the overwhelming majority of the album himself, as he had previously done with "Key West".

While "Orient And Accidents" was being released, Sumén joined the glam rock-influenced New Wave band, Classic Nouveaux, with whom, in various roles, he would remain for the remainder of that band's classic era, 1981 - 1985, contributing to four studio albums ("Classic Nouveaux" [1981], "Night People [1981], "La Verité [1982], and "Secret" [1983]), as well as numerous singles, EPs, music videos, and tours.

Afterwards, Sumén's activities are quite scarce. He returned with the jazz-influenced solo album "Paintbrush, Rock Penstemon" in 1993, racked up numerous production credits, and sat in as guest with many other Finnish groups during the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, with his most recent release being "City Of Women II", in 2019, with Edward Vesala, Jimi Tenor, and Iro Haarla.