Results for "Mika Kallio"

Mika Kallio

Oresme

By Janne Tuomi

Label: Mustik Motel Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Hadein; Bok Globules; Eagle Nebula; Moon-Tides; H93.1; Juwugo; Eeta Carinae;Puut; Odys

Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja

by Martin Longley
April 21, 2023

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 ...

Archipelago Sea Tales

By Jussi Fredriksson

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

Ian Patterson's Best Releases Of 2020

by Ian Patterson
January 1, 2021

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 ...

Hypnosis

By Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri

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

The Dead Don't Dream

By Verneri Pohjola

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

Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri: Hypnosis

by Friedrich Kunzmann
July 11, 2020

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 ...

Verneri Pohjola: The Dead Don't Dream

by Ian Patterson
July 3, 2020

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 ...

Brilliant Corners 2019

by Ian Patterson
March 19, 2019

Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab 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, ...