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Saku Mantere

Born: April 3, 1974

Saku Mantere is a composer, vocalist and a guitar player who works in the intersection of jazz and concert music.

Saku lives in Montréal, Canada and also spends a lot of time in Helsinki, Finland, working with musicians in both cities. Before moving to Montréal, he played guitar in progressive rock and folk music groups and wrote music in these genres.

After a hiatus of ten years while he was focusing on his family and career as an academic, Saku returned to music as a composer and vocalist. First album Upon First Impression will be published in November 2022, and his first string quartet Liminal was premiered in 2022.

Upon First Impression

By Saku Mantere

Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Saku Mantere / Dylan Thomas) 05:50 2. Time (Tom Waits) 06:06 3. Wedding Poem (Saku Mantere / Norman Cristofoli) 03:36 4. Building You, Building Me (Saku Mantere) 04:05 5. Open Secrets (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart) 06:57 6. Radio Silence (Saku Mantere) 05:07 7. I Think It’s Time to Say Goodbye Again (Stanley Cowell / Debby Randolph) 05:51 8. Countdown (John Coltrane / Saku Mantere) 04:41 9. The Professional (Saku Mantere) 03:47 10. Leap of Faith (Saku Mantere) 04:36

Building You, Building Me

December 18, 2022

Album: Upon First Impression
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:05

New Releases From Dunn, Kooshian, Andersen, Klossek And More

by Bob Osborne
November 17, 2022

On this week's show new music from Trevor Dunn, Ted Kooshian, Amjad Ali Khan & Wu Man, Arild Andersen, Marcus Klossek, Sara Gazarek, Saku Mantere and Dave Douglas. Also tracks from new documentary about the legendary bassist Ron Carter plus Frank Carlberg revisits Thelonious Monk's 1952 recordings for the Prestige labelPlaylist Show Intro 00:00 ...