Jazz Articles about Tunto

About Tunto

Album Review

The latest album from Matti Wallenius and Tunto is again primarily centered on his melodious guitar work and the quirky tunes that he and his long-standing reedist Petri Heimonen have come up with. They are all rambling journeys down exotic paths (here often Hispanic or Arabic) where a rich palette of earthy acoustic rhythms are wound together behind the riffs of Wassenius's guitar, multifarious stringed instruments, and various accompanying reeds. Ilona has to be seen as part of ...

Album Review

Tunto: Huvi

by Anthony Shaw
September 19, 2014

Tunto is a band providing what its Finnish name can be translated into -'a sense of feeling.' Although described disparagingly in one reviewer as veering towards New Age, this is music for a variety of moods. This is reflected in the song titles, on this their fourth to album to date, ranging from Stalking Music via Lice Picking Music to Sandcastle Music! The compositions are also again all by the driving force of the combo (on this ...