K-18 is a quartet led by the Finnish jazz guitarist Kalle Kalima. Featured with K-18 are also Mikko Innanen (saxophones), Veli Kujala (quarter-tone accordion) and Teppo Hauta-aho (double bass). 

The quartet’s unique sound is based on the uncompromising approach to improvisation.  The third CD of the group, Bunuel de Jour (TUM Records), takes its inspiration from the late films of Luis Buñuel and will be released in the spring 2014. Last year K-18 won the acclaimed Finnish Emma prize for jazz records with their last CD, Out to Lynch. 


04 Los Olvidados

K-18 is a quartet led by the Finnish jazz guitarist Kalle Kalima. Featured with K-18 are also Mikko Innanen (saxophones), Veli Kujala (quarter-tone accordion) and Teppo Hauta-aho (double bass). 

The quartet’s unique sound is based on the uncompromising approach to improvisation.  The third CD of the group, Bunuel de Jour (TUM Records), takes its inspiration from the late films of Luis Buñuel and will be released in the spring 2014. Last year K-18 won the acclaimed Finnish Emma (Grammy) prize for jazz records with their last CD, Out to Lynch. 


05 Belle de Jour

At Jazzahead 2011 Kalle Kalima K-18 performs music from the program "Out to Lynch" (inspired by the films of David Lynch). This new album is to be released on 2012 on TUM Records. The first CD Some Kubricks of Blood has been published in 2009 (article in Downbeat 07/2010). Kalle Kalima has studied both at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In his music elements of jazz and rock are mixed in unique way. He has played a.o. with Anthony Braxton, Tony Allen, Jimi Tenor, Michael Wertmüller, Tomasz Stanko, Sirone, Linda Sharrock, Jazzanova and Marc Ducret. Kalima is also known as a leader of highly acclaimed ensembles of his own: Klima Kalima (The Winner of the New German Jazz Prize 2008) and his solo performance Pentasonic.
He is a member of the famous trio Johnny La Marama (with Chris Dahlgren and Eric Schaefer). K-18 includes saxophonist Mikko Innanen, bassist Teppo Hauta-aho and Veli Kujala on quartertone accordion -- an instrument he invented.
KALLE KALIMA - guitar
MIKKO INNANEN - alto and baritone saxophone
VELI KUJALA - accordian
TEPPO HAUTA-AHO - double bass
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Kalle Kalima & K - 18 Lula

Kalle Kalima & K - 18 Eraserhead 06

"These songs are dedicated to the Finnish film noir. Films by Matti Kassila, Aki Kaurismäki and Mikko Niskanen have served as an inspiration for the music. This album is not a sound track but rather each piece is a reminisce of a certain feeling that the film left in my mind.

This song is one of the new album called Finn Noir.

Klima Kalima, Finn Noir: Things will turn out all right

Klima Kalima Finn Noir
Kalle Kalima, Guitar
Oliver Potratz, Doublebass
Oliver Bernd Steidle, Drums
    1. La vie de Boheme, Part I Saturday Night in St. Petersburg
    2.  Part II Sunday Morning in Leningrad 
3. Ariel 
4. Things Will Turn Out Right
5. Maister i Margarita
6. It Is Gas, Inspector Palmu
7. Cafe Brutale
8. Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu
9. Calamari Union
10. Eight Deadly Shots
Recorded 6/2012 at RBB, Compositions ba K. Kalima except nr 3
by Brown/Gibson/Johnson/Mallett
Arrangemants Kalima/Steidle/Potratz
 
These songs are dedicated to the Finnish film noir. Films by Matti Kassila, Aki Kaurismäki and Mikko Niskanen have served as an inspiration for the music. This album is not a sound track but rather a reminisce of a certain feeling that each film has left in my mind.
 
As a child I was fascinated by the inspector Palmu films. The flair of 1960s Helsinki combined with the great characters and a lot of humor and excitement. The stories where written by the great Mika Waltari, who perhaps is the internationally best known Finnish author through his bestseller "Sinuhe, the Egyptian". A few years later I saw Aki Kaurismäki´s work Calamari Union. This film is an incredible odysseia of 12 Franks, who are crossing Helsinki but dying one after another trying to do it. Also made in  the romantic 1980s, Kaurismäkis film "Ariel" is incredibly sad and funny at the same time dealing with hard Finnish facts of life. Mikko Niskanen´s "Eight Deadly Bullets" was an early 1970s TV film based on a true story about a poor farmer in the Finnish countryside, who gets in trouble with the police and ends up shooting four policemen. To me this film is a finno-ugrian variation of a wild west story.
 
"Things will turn out right" was sung by the great Topi Sorsakoski with the Finnish titel "Kunhan palaan takaisin". This song was heard in the Kaurismäki film "Man without past". Topi Sorsakoski had an intensive life and he died a way too soon. To me, he was the last great Finnish Iskelmä-Singer in the line starting from Olavi Virta, the master of the Finnish Tango. "The song "Cafe Brutale" is inspired by a composition of Olavi Virta called "Sä et kyyneltä nää". "Cafe Brutale" is a Finnish term for coffee without Cognac.  I think Finnish Iskelmä-music and alcohol are as close as dog and its fleas.
 
"Maister i Margarita" is referring not only to the fantastic book by M. Bulgakow but also to Soviet Union- style tour management experienced by Klima Kalima in the beautiful home town of Lev Tolstoi, Tula (Russian Federation). I think Finnish and Russian culture have a lot in common at least when it comes to using only minor keys in popular music. I could imagine Tarkovsky being an inspiration also for these Finnish film makers. Aki Kaurismäki certainly must have been inspired by Russian ways of decorating a restaurant. His film "La Vie de Boheme" is a sad story about how difficult it is to be an artist, something that every jazz musician can sing a song about. In the Suite "La Vie de Boheme" we imagined a trip through St. Petersburg ending up in Leningrad. These films show a culture that is unique, a warm side of dark Nordic reality. We were inspired by these pictures in all of their beauty and roughness.
 
The band Klima Kalima has been working together over 10 years in this formation and we have been working hard to find our own voice. The explosive Oliver Steidle  on the drums and the strong Oliver Potratz on the bass are among the most sought-after colleagues in Berlin. This town was also the reason how this Fenno-German group came together in the first place. There is a certain roughness in Berlin that goes along with the dark Finnish pictures.
 
Berlin, 10.10.2012 Kalle Kalima


02 La Vie de Bohème II, Sunday Morning in Leningrad

These songs are dedicated to the Finnish film noir. Films by Matti Kassila, Aki Kaurismäki and Mikko Niskanen have served as an inspiration for the music. This album is not a sound track but rather a reminisce of a certain feeling that each film has left in my mind.
 


01 La vie de Bohème I, Saturday night in St. Petersburg

04 Things will turn out right (2)

Kalle Kalima electric guitar and percussion
Mikko Innanen alto and baritone saxophones, flutes and percussion
Veli Kujala quarter-tone accordion and percussion
Teppo Hauta-aho double bass, percussion and doors

Out to Lynch is Emma candidate 2013 in Finland.

On their second release, Kalle Kalima & K-18 continue to present composer and guitarist Kalle Kalima´s aural impressions of the world of movies. Whereas their first album included Kalima´s compositions inspired by Stanley Kubrick´s films, Out To Lynch presents his reflections on some of director David Lynch´s key movies, such as Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart.

03 Mulholland Drive

Kalle Kalima, Guitar
Oliver Potratz, Doublebass
Oliver Bernd Steidle, Drums

These songs are dedicated to the Finnish film noir. Films by Matti Kassila, Aki Kaurismäki and Mikko Niskanen have served as an inspiration for the music. This album is not a sound track but rather a reminisce of a certain feeling that each film has left in my mind.

10 Eight deadly shots

Kalle Kalima, Guitar
Oliver Potratz, Doublebass
Oliver Bernd Steidle, Drums
 
These songs are dedicated to the Finnish film noir. Films by Matti Kassila, Aki Kaurismäki and Mikko Niskanen have served as an inspiration for the music. This album is not a sound track but rather a reminisce of a certain feeling that each film has left in my mind.


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