Finnish jazz at 100: It all started with a ship from New York

#finland #finnishmusic #jazz
https://musicfinland.com/en/news/finnish-jazz-at-100-it-all-started-with-a-ship-from-new-york

Composer Meriheini Luoto: #DeepListening
in the wild

“I’m not really inside any particular genre,” says Luoto.

Her latest album, Talven uneen vaipuen (“Falling Into Winter’s Sleep”), nominated as album of the year in both #classical and #folk categories, delves deep into mixed feelings about nature.

#finnishmusic #minimalism #experimentalmusic #finland
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/composer-meriheini-luoto-deep-listening-in-the-wild

Another pick for this week's #TuneTuesday theme, #thebubble. This otherworldly early seventies classic is probably a fairly obvious choice for a Finn:

Pekka Streng & Tasavallan presidentti: Sisältäni portin löysin (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1tcsVoFOU

Pekka Streng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Streng) was still a quite obscure cult figure during my teenage years in the early 1980s. I think I may have read about him in Esko Lehtonen's "Suomalaisen rockin tietosanakirja" ("The Encyclopedia of Finnish Rock") before I actually heard this record for the first time on the radio. I do remember that I bought a reissue version of his second album ("Kesämaa", 1972) at the very first record fair I ever attended, at Lepakkoluola in Helsinki back in 1987.

#pekkastreng #finnishmusic #progressiverock #progrock

Fascinating, witty and moving interview with violinist Pekka Kuusisto

#songlines #violin #fiddle #finnishmusic #classical #folk #jazz #finland
https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/vaughan-to-be-wild

Pekko Käppi's Oli kerran ryytimaassa: Poignant acoustic ballads to blazing, feedback-soaked blues-rock

#songlines #finnishmusic #folkmusic #finland
https://www.songlines.co.uk/review/oli-kerran-ryytimaassa

One of my old favorites from the early 1990s - I vividly remember buying the classic 22-Pistepirkko LP "Big Lupu" from Tunnelin Anttila in Helsinki and can't believe that it was 33 years ago:

22-Pistepirkko: Birdy (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWFtUbYiCMw

#TuneTuesday #AnimalCalls #music #22Pistepirkko #Birdy #Finnishmusic #TunnelinAnttila

Sound art, electronics, #folk and #jazz overlap and interact on DIY/experimental albums by Oiro Pena, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, @launau and
@marjaahti

#experimentalmusic #diymusic #indiemusic
#finnishmusic #soundart
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/heartfelt-homemade-sounds-from-the-fringes

https://soundcloud.com/paranoidtxt/paranoid-plugged-into-nothing

"Improvised mix of music from Finnish artists made for the event 'Plugged Into Nothing', held by the legendary Esa Ruoho (Lackluster) at the Rikhardinkadun Library in Helsinki, on the 8th of September 2025. This session was played there before the main set."

#DJmixes #FinnishMusic #electronic #experimental #ambient #soundart #Helsinki #Finland #Kaukolampi #Verde #MarjaAhti #EsaRuoho #rihmasto #AleksiPerälä #PekkaPohjola #HLER #Nemesis #UtuLautturi #JuhaMattiRautiainen

Jazz accordionist Joose Ojala: Honouring Louis Braille and other musical trailblazers

#blind #finnishmusic #accordion #jazz #braille #Helsinki #finland
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/jazz-accordionist-joose-ojala-honouring-louis-braille-and-other-musical-trailblazers

Quirky ‘90s Finnish band #UltraBra is staging a comeback with their first new songs since 2001

Most of their lyrics are by former #Greens leader #AnniSinnemäki, now deputy mayor of #Helsinki

#finnishmusic #finland
https://finland.fi/arts-culture/quirky-90s-band-ultra-bra-stages-a-stylish-comeback-at-30/