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TAPIO RAUTAVAARA
 Tapio Rautavaara is a true Finnish legend. 60 years ago he won the olympic gold medal in javelin throw, and 50 years ago he became a world champion in archery. Next year it will be 30 years since this warmly beloved singer passed away. Provisual has started a massive project in co-operation with Warner Music Finland to produce a long awaited cross section of Tapio Rautavaara's career in sports, music and movies.
The project collects Rautavaara's all recordings between covers, which consists of 14 cd's and a book presenting Rautavaara with rich texts and pictures. The book contains also thoughts about Rautavaara from Finland's most competent sports, music and movie experts.
» tapiorautavaara.net
JUHA VAINIO
Juha "Watt" Vainio (1938-1990) was one of Finland's most significant popular music composers, and would turn 70 years of age in May, 2008. Provisual will produce in co-operation with Warner Music Finland and Juha Vainio's heirs a 10 cd box set to celebrate this Finnish music legend.
This box set will be the vastest of all times in Finland, and it will cover Juha Vainio's whole career. 10 cd's include over 200 songs - all the recordings made in studio environment. A 100-paged book will contain detailed information and interesting background stories of every song. The book will also offer Vainio's colleagues' interviews and lots of photos covering his whole career.
MUSIC VIDEO FILMED WITH MOBILE PHONE
Music videos filmed with just a mobile phone camera
are still rare around the world. Finnish pop-rock
band Neljä Ruusua's new music video is the first
one made like that in Finland, and produced by,
of course, Provisual. Video was shooted at a Neljä
Ruusua gig on November 11, 2006, with two Nokia
N93 and two Nokia N70 phones. The video was cut
with an ordinary editing program.
» www.emi.fi
PIXOFF.NET MOVIE ONLINE RENTALS
Pixoff.net web community has gathered over one million
viewers audience for Finnish short films. Now the
community is starting up a long movie online distribution
service. This pilot service contains DRM protected
Finnish movies as both streamed and downloadable
files. The service also offers an opportunity, first
time in Finland, to distribute HD movies online,
providing a so called Full HD resolution (1920 x
1080).
The pilot service has been produced in co-operation
with Finnish movie production companies. One of
the service's main purposes is to represent the
possibilities, that online distribution brings,
to the movie business producers and distributors.
Check out the pilot movie online distribution
service at:
» www.pixoff.net/vuokraamo
NIGHTWISH MOBILE
The
FanPOD package that we’ve developed for the music industry was a
success at MIDEM. Before you know it the coolest and most amazing media
and ordering channels will be taking over mobile phones nationally and
internationally. We can’t think of many things more rewarding than
practically realizing these solutions for one of Finland’s hottest
music exports Nightwish.
» nightwish.com
» www.fanplugged.com
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PROVISUAL
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Provisual Oy is an audio-visual production company founded in 1994. It designs and produces content and carries out productions for different receiver devices and audio-visual media.
We work within, and as a part of, most forms of popular culture.
The
company focuses mainly to meet the needs and demands within the music
and film industries. We deliver major productions and products to our
customers on turn-key basis. Our customers include TV channels, telecom
operators, record companies, as well as several associations and
organizations within the film and music business. Utilizing our
extensive experience and knowledge, we are continually creating new
forms of co-operation and distribution of content. Our expertise covers an extensive array of publishing
and distribution technologies, such as the Internet, DVD, CD, TV, video
streaming and mobile receiver devices. Provisual is also an expert
within release- and distribution-channels, a producer of content,
-packaging and –distribution.
The vibe is good, the understanding of the work rated A+ and the products are excellent!
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RELEASES
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NEGATIVE - In The Eye Of The Hurricane
 In The Eye Of The Hurricane DVD sums up Negative's career up to this point. The double DVD's release date is in Finland on January 26, 2008 and in Japan on February 21, 2008.
The double DVD consists of live gigs, music videos, an interview shot in 2007, live material shot by the fans and almost two hours of video material, which brings the viewers on tour with the band. The package includes also an 18-paged booklet, hidden links, comment tracks and other extra material.
» hypeproductions.fi
» www.negative.fi
KIRKA ALL THE SINGLES 1967-2007
 Kirka's "All The Singles 1967-2007" 8 cd box set was released on October 24, 2007. This compilation offers a possibility to travel through Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin's (Sep 22, 1950 - Jan 31, 2007) whole 40-year career. The booklet includes pictures throughout the years, a complete discography and stories about the songs and their origins.
» Warnermusic
» cdinfo.fi
JUICE LESKINEN: SYKSYN SÄVEL – ALL THE SINGLES 1974-2004
 Juice Leskinen's 6 cd box set was released on October 24, 2007. The box set contains also previously unreleased songs and a 40-page booklet.
» Johannakustannus.fi
» cdinfo.fi
VÄRTTINÄ
 Värttinä
celebrate their 25 year anniversary in 2008, and
release their first compilation album ever on
September 26, 2007. The album called "25"
includes material from all of the band's 11 albums
and "Archive" live DVD. Provisual was
responsible for the product's visual design
»
www.sonybmg.fi
»
www.varttina.com
HURRIGANES: ROCK´N´ROLL ALL NIGHT
LONG 1973-1988 double dvd
 Every
Hurriganes fan's dreams about a perfect Hurriganes
DVD compilation has come true!
Hurriganes: Rock'n'Roll All Night Long 1973-1988
double DVD collects all the audiovisual recordings
from this legendary Finnish rock band between
the same covers. Almost 7 hours of material and
120 songs include lots of pearls from the 15 years'
time period of the band's career.
» www.dvdinfo.fi
»
www.warnermusic.fi
»
www.lovemusic.fi
LORDI MOVED TO A CASTLE
 Lordi
packed their bags and moved to a dark castle.
Check out yourself how scary the website is at
www.lordi.org!
The
castle-adventure website has a brand new feature, a video blog allowing
fans to follow Lordi’s travels around the world. The band and crew
shoot videos and still image on mobile phones, revealing all the
back-stage scenes and rock-star glam to fans and other visitors to
their official website.
Another new way of reaching fans is Lordi’s
mobile magazine. Fans can browse this and also play Lordi - The Game,
included in the package. Instructions for downloading the free mobile
magazine at www.fanplugged.com/lordi.
» www.lordi.org
The 69 Eyes - Angels Bonus DVD
 The
Finnish goth rock group The 69 Eyes' new album "Angels" will be out in Europe on February
28 and in the USA on March 3.The first edition
includes a bonus DVD, which contains "Perfect
Skin" video, five song live show from Whisky
A Go-Go and a documentary "On The Route".
»
www.emi.fi
»
www.the69eyes.com
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