Aki Kaurismaki's Proletariat Trilogy (Criterion Collection)The poignant, deadpan films of Aki Kaurismaki are pitched somewhere in the wintry nether lands between comedy and tragedy. And rarely in his body of work has the line separating those genres seemed thinner than in what is often identified as his "Proletariat Trilogy," Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and the Match Factory Girl. In these three films, something like social realist farces, Kaurismaki surveys the working class outcasts of his native Finland

but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944

which became famous through the Brian Setzer Orchestra

folk or any other genre of artist

even magic

by then he had returned to his homeland and that year became leader of the court orchestra in Stockholm

But we continue Sonny's story with

Plunt started as a guitar & drums duo as an excuse to drink beer and spend money they didn't have

touring internationally and featuring on more than 40 albums

from the Baroque era's Tomaso Antonio Vitali and Giuseppe Tartini to latter-day Ottorino Respighi and Fritz Kreisler

Gary Pig Gold and the debut of vocalist Kate MacDonald on "Silver Lines" and other artists

" (Tom Pryor)

Newly Remastered Original Non-Album Singles