page_title: Digelius Music
section_title: Digelius Music today
hierarchical_section_title: Digelius Music / Digelius Music today
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Helsingin Viiskulman pohjoisimmassa sektorissa sijaitseva rakennus, jossa toimii mm. Digelius Music.
context_page_description: Digelius Music is a record shop and internet retailer located in Viiskulma, Helsinki, Finland. It has been functioning in more or less the same place since 1971. Officially its business is "retail of music and video recordings." There are several record shops in the same or neighbouring blocks.
context_section_description: It has been said that Digelius is one of the best known record stores in Finland. In the early days, all kinds of popular music was sold in the store, but since the 1980s, it has concentrated in jazz, jazz fusion, folk music and world music. It is also said that Digelius Music is an information center for jazz and world music, an in addition to this, it is occasionally a concert space and even a tourist attraction. One person writes about the store in the internet with the following words:
  Digelius Music is a strange place. I moved some six years ago from Oulu to Helsinki. That is, I moved to the city that is famous for Digelius Music. That is how far the fame of this record store at Viiskulma had travelled. For me it represented the wide world, specialization, a small target audience, everything that is important in a big city: the possibility of existence for things that are smaller than a small town.
  This writer tested the expertise of the store by asking about Azerbaidjani jazz. Soon the bearded man working in the store brought to him a pile of records to listen to. And he even seemed to enjoy this "inquiry that was goddam difficult.”
  In addition to selling records, live jazz can be heard in Digelius Music on occasion. These are usually record launch events. For example, in 2014, the pianist Iiro Rantala has had such a concert at Digelius. In 2012 Digelius Music was awarded the Varjo-Yrjö ('Shadow Yrjö') award.
  In the 1980s, Digelius also published records, at least those of Hasse Walli's Afro-Line.
caption: The house on the corner of Fredrikinkatu and Laivurinrinne, entrance to Digelius Music in the foreground.
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