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Jarmo Saari

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Blood Red

Label: Galileo Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: I, Satan; Istanbul; Siro Efendi (I am a Corpse); I am Called Kara/I, Sekure; Blood Red; I am a Gold Coin.

Album

Adventures of the Wildflower

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: In the Ground; Germination; Weeding The Garden; Dog Chasing A Mouse; Rain; Home By The Fence; Chickens; Drought; Thundershower. CD2: Winter Slumber; Waking Up In the Spring; Buds And Flowers; Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Children Playing With Seed Pods; Dying; Another Winter; Baby Columbines.

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Article: Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

Read "Adventures of the Wildflower" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


The last time composer/pianist Yelena Eckemoff recorded in Finland she led a quintet on Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Production, 2017). The program was devoted to smells, particularly the phlox flower and other scents remembered from childhood. Here she returns to Finland with a sextet (including several returning players, basically the entire rhythm section) and a related ...

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Article: Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

Read "Adventures of the Wildflower" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The seeds of pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures Of The Wildflower were planted in 2013, when she traveled to Hollola, Finland, to record Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Productions, 2017) with a group of young Finnish musicians. Several Eckemoff albums came about after that recording, but the experience with her Finnish friends must have exerted a sort of ...

Album

Soldiers of Light

Label: Jarmo Saari Republic Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: The wunderers; Compassion; Organism; Polarized flow; My kinda woman; Radio Mammalia; Saffron tears (Dragomir); Polarised flow II; Aura.

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Article: Album Review

Espoo Big Band: Espoo Suite

Read "Espoo Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Almost forty years after its inception in 1980, Finland's world-class Espoo Big Band and composer / arranger Marzi Nyman have recorded an often brash and always impressive salute to their home base, the appropriately named Espoo Suite. “This is my attempt to describe [the city]," Nyman writes, “through free-associative composing." The word “free" aptly expresses Nyman's ...

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Article: Album Review

Jarmo Saari Republic: Soldiers of Light

Read "Soldiers of Light" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


In a video introducing this band, Jarmo Saari claims that in his career as Finland's most widely-recognized modern guitarist he is maybe in the wrong niche. But listening to his latest album, and comparing it to his first releases in the mid 1990s with ZetaBoo, even if he doesn't play drums it is obvious that he ...

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Article: Live Review

Jarmo Saari Republic at G Livelab

Read "Jarmo Saari Republic at G Livelab" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Jarmo Saari Republic G Livelab Helsinki February 28, 2019 Jarmo Saari has been making music on the Nordic scene for more years than most of us care to remember. As a child he was involved in the Tapiola Choir in Espoo, the Helsinki suburb synonymous with high art of visual as ...

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Article: Album Review

3TM: Form

Read "Form" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Teppo Mäkynen has been playing the Scandinavian jazz circuit for well over 20 years, typically as the drummer in the company of the Five Corners Quintet (which itself grew out of Nuspirit Helsinki), where he also partnered the featured bassist here, Antti Lötjönen. In this line up he was playing a type of post-bop acoustic jazz, ...


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