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Jarmo Saari SOLU: The Making of Love
by Anthony Shaw
As Jarmo Saari explains on his website, the topic of The Making of Love has motivated and emasculated humankind since the beginning of time. So do we need yet another interpretation? The album expands the Finnish guitarist's already long discography, which ranges from a big band suite for the UMO Jazz Orchestra to his first solo ...
TUMFest--Modern Jazz in Helsinki, January '07
by Anthony Shaw
The third TUMFest of contemporary and experimental music was held January 26-28 mainly in the familiar surroundings of the rococo Savoy Theatre in downtown Helsinki, a cozy venue sheltering artists and audience from the typically extreme winter conditions outside; a second venue on Sunday was the renowned Church in the Rock, an environment partly carved out ...
Zetaboo: Ethnic Jazz from Finland
by Anthony Shaw
The release of the third album OuterRail (Aito, 2006) by the quirkily named Finnish band Zetaboo brings them into the limelight after a break of six years. Active pursuit of solo projects has not diminished the deep bonds that were established in the early 1990s, when all four were young musicians in Helsinki. In fact, during ...
Zetaboo: OuterRail
by Anthony Shaw
Zetaboo started in the early 1990s when all four original members were students in Helsinki. Maybe the title of this, their third album, reflects the distant orbits that their individual careers have taken since the 2000 release of MedaZine. This band has managed to contrive a unique blend of styles which combines their classically ...
Brazil Comes to Finland
by Anthony Shaw
Zetaboo and the Emma Salokoski Ensemble at the Helsinki Festival Helsinki Festival Helsinki, Finland August 31, 2006 As we all know, a good concert can have many different effects on its listeners--raised blood pressure, boosted adrenaline, soothing tranquility. For my daughter it was a blissful night's sleep, for me images ...
Hullabaloo in Hillerod: Burnin
by Anthony Shaw
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe Statsbio Cinema Hilleröd, Denmark April 22, 2006 When I stopped visiting Denmark in the mid-1970s, my reel-to-reel tapes recorded there sank deep into storage. A few chance purchases from second-hand record shops kept a small presence of Danish rock in my record collection, but I rarely ...
Theo Travis: Eleven Bowls of Acidophilus Flute Salad
by Anthony Shaw
Anyone who has wondered about the inclusion of music by the reputed space-rock band Gong in jazz annals should consider the recent release by the group's current saxophonist and flautist, Theo Travis. In addition to the well-received Earth to Ether, Travis has been active around the UK and abroad with his own band Cipher, but his ...
Emma Salokoski Sings Svenska Visar in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
When the paths of two considered but disparate artists meet on stage before one's very ears and eyes expectations are high. When they choose to perform in a language untried before by the singer one might expect disharmony--but the association of Finnish funk singer Emma Salokoski with Ilmiliekki, a young free-form Finnish unit, at the Viapori ...
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: uke
by Anthony Shaw
The music-hall tradition has deep roots in popular British culture, traceable back to the fill-in acts of mediaeval Shakespearean theater. Minstrels and musicians would entertain the audience while the scenery was changed. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain(UOofGB) solemnly attired in black jackets and ties holds the stage uninterrupted for a whole evening, without any interruptions ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim and Lucas Ligeti at Savoy Theatre, February 26, 2005
by Anthony Shaw
Attending a concert by Raoul Bjorkenheim can I think be compared to watching a lightening storm. It's a rare occurrence - at least in Nordic climes, offers constant surprise though requiring concerted focus of all the senses. Bjorkenheim is now based in is childhood home New York, so appearances in Finland, his mother's homeland and Bjorkenheim's ...
