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Kongsberg Jazzfestival: Music from the Hall of the Mountain King
by Anthony Shaw
Kongsberg Jazz Festival Norway July 2-5, 2008 Ever since David Lindley's The Sweet Sunny North reached distant shores in the early 1990s, Norway has been on many musical radar screens. Maybe it is impossible to think of the country without the fjords and the fells, so let's get them done and dusted. ...
Karsten Vogel & Robin Taylor: The Bird and Bear of Danish Fusion
by Anthony Shaw
Meeting two diametrically different individuals currently active on the fusion scene in Denmark only drives home the fact that a variety of paths can lead to the contemporary stage. How different are they? One adorned in biker boots and pulling on a well chewed briar pipe, the other dapper in black jacket and slacks, flitting between ...
Klima Kalima: Chasing Yellow
by Anthony Shaw
This disc sees Finnish guitarist Klima Kalima alongside his German colleagues from Berlin, Oliver Steidle on drums and Oliver Potratz on bass. The line-up as well as the overall feel of this album is very close to that of the band's 2004 Helsinki on my Mind, although the intended audience is clearly more central European this ...
Fresh Danish: People Are Machines, Vogel, Solar Plexus
by Anthony Shaw
Calibrated are a subsidiary of Cope Records, based in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. The smaller label concentrates on young, local jazz and fusion musicians beginning to make name for themselves in their own country and neighboring Nordic states. The exception to this specialization is Calibrated's inclusion of veteran local saxophonist Karsten Vogel. But Vogel has ...
Marc Ducret Trio: Heart-Stopping Music in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
The Marc Ducret Trio Rythmihäiri Club Helsinki, Finland November 31, 2007 Lost in translation is not an applicable excuse when listening to free-form instrumental jazz. It is to be expected. Sitting through 25 minutes of the intense experimental music the Marc Ducret Trio offers up during a single selection, inevitably ...
Zulya Performs Tatar Music - Savoy Theatre, Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Zulya and the Children of the Underground Savoy Theater Helsinki, Finland October 24, 2007 These days we are very accustomed to mixed sonic salads, to multicultural feasts of ethnic reinterpretation. To some, this act may be just such a multi-herbal mixture, but to my taste here is a flavor ...
The Jouni Jarvela Group: A Grand Day Out
by Anthony Shaw
The Jouni Järvelä Group is rather exceptional in that over half of the material is written by band members other than its saxophonist/leader. Within the same piece the music can swing from a punctuated melodic Pink Floydian wash to a Wes Montgomerian excursion, and back via a Zappa-style freeform multilogue. That said, Järvelä is a player ...
Kimmo Pohjonen: Accordionist Extraordinaire
by Anthony Shaw
To claim that behind every successful man is a strong woman is clearly twaddle. To say that behind every successful (read busy!) Finnish musician is, in one form or another, the Sibelius Academy, is much closer to the mark. Accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen served his time in both the classical Helsinki Conservatory and then the Academy's Folk ...
Tiit Kikas: String Theory
by Anthony Shaw
Estonia is the smallest of the newly independent Baltic states, now able to boast its lengthy cultural heritage free of the confines of Soviet constraint. Violinist Tiit Kikas rode the surge of post-independence nationalist enthusiasm before extending his horizons across the Baltic to study in neighboring Finland. On returning home, he spread his talents ...
Mikko Innannen and Innkvisitio: Paa-da-pap
by Anthony Shaw
Doubtlessly here is a man and a band whose names raise few eyebrows, except for the surfeit of n's. But open the package and there are queries a-plenty. Is that repeated ticking really coming from the CD, or is the old CD player giving up the ghost? What is that slightly hollow bass sound behind the ...
