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Official live album, recorded live in Helsinki & Tokyo.
Pekka Pohjola is a unique artist, whose music is appreciated by
connoisseurs all over the world. He is not underrated.
Joe Public might not know him, but most people who have had a taste of
his music, rate him as one of the major composers and musicians in
popular music. He writes slowly, so new albums are rare and far apart.
It has been more than five years since his latest studio album.
Meanwhile his music has reached new generations of music lovers. You do
not have to be a fan of progressive rock, fusion or jazz rock to
appreciate his majestic melody lines. Even an artist like DJ Shadow
from a totally different genre of music has sampled his stuff.
Pekka Pohjola (born 1952) is without doubt one of the greatest electric
bass players in Europe. He studied classical piano and violin at the
Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, all the while allowing his natural
instincts to lead him to a career in rock 'n' roll. After a stint with
The Boys, a pioneering group often compared to John Mayall's
Bluesbreakers, Pekka joined Wigwam in 1970, staying for four glorious
years. Wigwam was one of the most influential Finnish bands in the
Seventies, and apart from being quite succesful in Scandinavia they
later became a cult band in England even before being signed by Virgin
Records.
After leaving Wigwam Pekka did a lot of studio work and played a for a
short time with the Jukka Tolonen Band and Made In Sweden. In 1977
Pekka formed The Group, recording their eponymous album in the same
year. But most importantly, Pekka recorded his first critically
acclaimed solo album, the delicious Pihkasilmä Kaarnakorva, during his
Wigwam days and his second (Harakka Bialoipokku, internationally known
as B The Magpie) and third (The Mathematician's Air Display) albums
were internationally released by Virgin Records. The latter was
produced by Mike Oldfield, who also played on the record. Among the
many other musicians that have admired Pekka's talents is Frank Zappa.
Pekka's fourth solo album Visitation was released in 1979 and it was
another big critical success. In 1980 The Group became PEKKA POHJOLA
GROUP and they released the album Kätkävaaran Lohikäärme (The Dragon of
Kätkävaara Mountain). The band toured extensively on the Continent and
Scandinavia in the early Eighties with different line-ups.
Somewhere along the line the word Group was also dropped from the
band's name, so that they became known collectively as PEKKA POHJOLA.
Urban Tango (1982) was the first album released on his own Pohjola
Records label, operated by Rockadillo. There followed some work with
various television film music projects, one of them forming the basis
for his album Jokamies, released in Finland in 1983. It was released in
the USA and Germany under the title Everyman in early 1984. The album
was an overnight success on progressive radio stations across North
America.
Space Waltz followed in 1985 and Flight Of The Angel in 1986, adding
more converts to the legion of his loyal followers. However, in the
late eighties Pekka got dissillusioned with the rock scene and
disappeared for a couple of years to compose his first symphony. His
Sinfonia no 1 with AVANTI! orchestra was premiered live in 1989 and was
released on CD in 1990.
Pekka spent two years working on Changing Waters, which marked his
majestic return to the recording scene as well as to the live circuit.
His new band for the Changing Waters sessions featured Finnish top
musicians Seppo Kantonen (keyboards), Markku Kanerva (guitar) and Anssi
Nykänen (drums), who became his regular band. The CD was released in
Finland in November 1992 and in Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland in
the Spring of 1993. In 1993 Pekka Pohjola played the band's first
American shows in New York and Austin.
In November 1994 the band played three shows in Tokyo, where Pekka has
a strong and loyal cult following. The shows were recorded for a Live
in Japan CD which was released by Japanese label Marquee / Belle
Antique in May 1995. In April 1995 Pekka Pohjola played in Barcelona
and Madrid in Spain. In November 1995 a double-CD Heavy Jazz - Live in
Helsinki and Tokyo was released in Finland. The release date for Japan
is January 1996. The CD was mainly recorded in April in Helsinki by
Finnish Broadcasting Company's 24-track mobile, but two tracks are 8
-track digital recordings from Tokyo in 1994. Heavy Jazz was mixed at
the Finnish National Opera studio in Helsinki.
In late September 1997 new studio album, called Pewit, was finally
released after five years since Changing Waters came out.
In May 2001 Pekka Pohjola released Views, his first solo album in quite
some time. Compared to his hard hitting rocked-out albums of the '80s,
the sound on Views could be considered a toning down of the rock-solid
guitar-based Pohjola sound boldly witnessed on '80s classics like Urban
Tango and Space Waltz. Instead, the sophisticated harmonies on Views
focuses on Pohjola's innate skills as a jazz and pop-classical
composer-arranger. A number of musicians help take Pohjola's symphonic
sound to the next level including long time Pohjola group members,
keyboardist Seppo Kantonen and guitarist Markku Kanerva. With it's
heavy accent on strings and brass arrangements, Views takes a good look
back to Pohjola's trend-setting second album, released on Virgin in
England back in '75 with the title B The Magpie. In fact the only song
to feature a guitar here is a really different-sounding, Zappa-inspired
track entitled "The Red Porsche". The first pop vocal track featured on
a Pohjola disc since the early '80s, the song features a few hot
vocalists singing the original lyrics (in english) taken from a poem
written by Charles Bukowski.
Views makes for some pleasant listening indeed. It might not be the
album you expected from Pekka (well, what is?), but the music is
(still) so good, you just can't help but enjoy it.
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Elatvis/yhtyeet/Pekka_Pohjola/index.html
http://www.rockadillo.fi/pekkapohjola/
Tracks:
CD #1
01. Relief
02. Pressure
03. Imppu's Tango
04. Nykivä Keskustelu Tuntemattoman Kanssa
05. Innocent Questions
06. Fanatic Answers
CD #2
01. Benjamin
02. No Way Out
03. Albatross
04. Risto
05. Heavy Jazz
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