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Mika Kallio

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Article: Festivals Talking

Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja

Read "Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja" reviewed by Martin Longley


Estonian pianist Kirke Karja has regularly appeared at the Jazzkaar festival in Tallinn, customarily performing in surprising settings, always delivering a fresh band combination, or a new set of music, or altering ratios between improvisation and composition, acoustic or electric palettes. During the last two years she has a.) been discovered by the rest of the ...

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Archipelago Sea Tales

Label: Flame Jazz Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Dead Sea 2. Splatter 3. Käkkärämänty 4. Red Ochre 5. Chase 6. Swan Love 7. Korpo Waltz 8. Rock 9. Improvisation

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Article: Year in Review

Ian Patterson's Best Releases Of 2020

Read "Ian Patterson's Best Releases Of 2020" reviewed by Ian Patterson


A year like no other produced a terrific amount of great music, much of inspired by--or in spite of—the surreal circumstances. Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite releases of the year. A huge thank you to all the musicians, record labels, studios, agents, promotors and virtual technicians who helped keep us relatively ...

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Hypnosis

Label: Eclipse Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Feeniks; Teknojazz; Polynesian Prayer; Multidemensional Banquet; Hypnosis; Rhodiola Rosea; Message From Utopia.

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The Dead Don't Dream

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Monograph; Wilder Brother; Voices Heard; The Conversationalist; The Dead Don’t Dream; Argirro; Suspended.

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Article: Album Review

Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri: Hypnosis

Read "Hypnosis" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


It can be interpreted as quite the democratic statement when an album from a saxophonist is introduced with an almost two-minute long drum solo that solely focuses on the percussive qualities of the instrument. Which is exactly what drummer Mika Kallio does on the opening segment of the Finnish saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen's sophomore album with the ...

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Article: Album Review

Verneri Pohjola: The Dead Don't Dream

Read "The Dead Don't Dream" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The photo on the front cover shows a levitating Verneri Pohjola. A rising star? That tag might have been appropriate at the time of Aurora (ACT Music, 2009), but the brilliant subsequent albums Bullhorn (2015) and Pekka (2017), both on Edition Records, confirmed the Finnish trumpeter's arrival at the top table of European jazz. Pohjola's distinctive ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2019

Read "Brilliant Corners 2019" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab jny:Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...

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Article: Live Review

Gourmet At April Jazz Club

Read "Gourmet At April Jazz Club" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Gourmet April Jazz Club Espoo, Finland February 8, 2019 You can't judge a book--or a CD--by its cover, but the contents frequently become inexorably associated with the packaging. Visiting the April Jazz Club in early February to see a band called “Gourmet" might suggest tasty fare in leafy spring surroundings. The ...


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