Fonal Records

{{Short description|Finnish independent record label}}

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Fonal Records is an independent record label from Finland. It was initially founded in the mid-1990s by Sami Sänpäkkilä to release his recordings under his recording name Es.{{Cite web|last=Park|first=Adam|date=2006-04-10|title=Mum's Gone to Finland|url=http://www.boomkat.com/article.cfm?id=4|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110201603/http://www.boomkat.com/article.cfm?id=4|archive-date=2006-11-10|website=Boomkat}}

Sänpäkkilä initially ran the label from his childhood home in Ulvila and had his parents help package records.

Fonal is well known worldwide for championing the Finnish music scene.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} It is one of the labels associated with the Finnish psych-folk scene.{{Cite web|last=Stosuy|first=Brandon|date=2005-04-18|title=Silver Apples of the Moon|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/6020-silver-apples-of-the-moon/|access-date=2021-04-10|website=Pitchfork|language=en}}

A large number of Fonal releases were recorded, mixed and mastered at their own SS-Palace Studio. The studio reflects the same principles as the record label, with a creative atmosphere, allowing anything from demos to full-length albums to be recorded. The studio boasts Digital 16-track simultaneous recording, or 8-track 1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape recording; also, importantly, lo-fi engineering, if required.