Nagat El Saghira - Ana Baashaq El Bahr

Fågelbörs - Marjassa is an LP released in a limited edition of 200 by Ultraääni Records and Odd Funk Records, distributed by Jazzaggression Records.

Analog recording & mixing, and editing by Tuure Tammi

Mastered by: Samuli Tanner

Silkscreened cover art on recycled cardboard sleeves by: Arsi Keva

Catalog number: Ultra-036 / oddfunk013

Release date: 2 / 2022


...in February 2020, just in time before the outbreak of the ongoing pandemic, four avant-garde jazz/ free improvisation enthusiasts got together to play and hang out. The place for their meeting, a cosy studio (Odd Funk Records) in a small town in Southern Finland, has during the past ten years received a certain reputation - that of analogically recorded and mixed raw funk, afrobeat and a bit more twisted jazz.

These four pals, now known as Fågelbörs - drummer Jaakko Tolvi, the bassist Tero Kemppainen, saxophonist Matti Luokkanen and trumpeter Tuure Tammi – represent what could be called third wave of improvisatory music in Finland. Tolvi and Kemppainen (e.g., Rauhanorkesteri, Taco Bells) are among the starting members of this wave in early 2000s and have played with many well-known contemporaries.

Part 1 of the Marjassa LP is reminiscent to 60s avant-garde movements both soundwise and musically. It builds on the bubbling of the drums and bass and the solo exchanges between sax and trumpet, reminding of some of Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry stuff (or perhaps Noah Howard/Ric Colbeck). On the flip side we find a slowly moving atmosphere that builds towards a surprise in the end, a combination that might have structural reminiscence with Art Ensemble of Chicago live concerts. The final tune makes space for another flipping of the record as it pulls back to the atmosphere at the beginning of the trip.

Fågelbörs - Marjassa Part 2 (excerpt)

Prisma - Money Lords
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'They had expected to see the very embodiment of a Stalinist hell. Well, you know the picture: soldiers on every street corner sporting machine guns, ready to mow down the masses, pedestrians in colorless clothing slowly moving amidst mammoth, concrete shells of buildings. 
Instead, what they see is a city of reasonably well-attired residents, a booming restaurant culture, and a diverse array of major Western brands on sale, all purchased with relative ease (once you have the money, of course).'

Prisma - Caretaker [BTFWL9998]

Blue cargo

Suure

Nalle Puh Big Band: Messin' With The Man

From the EP "The Time is Stretching"
https://zuunzug.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-is-stretching

In this musical piece, there are seven field recordings, three of them are extracts from the work of others artists, and four are from my personal recordings : 
- In a ger(yurt)in Mongolia (Ulziit Sum), 05/19/2017
- At the Mongolian New Year's Eve in Paris, 02/08/2018
- In Le Mans during a thunderstorm, 05/26/2018
- In Le Mans too, an ambiance before a concert... 09/22/2018

Ce morceau contient sept enregistrements de terrain, trois sont des samples, les quatre autres proviennent de mes propres enregistrements: 
- Dans une yourte en Mongolie (province d'Ulziit), 19/05/2017
- Au Nouvel An Mongol à Paris, 08/02/2018
- Au Mans durant un orage, 26/05/2018
- Toujours au Mans, une ambiance d'avant concert... 22/09/2017

The Time Is Stretching

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Excerpt of an after-gig impromptu session of AMM All-Stars with Friends, this fraction of the line-up authored by Out to Lunch. 
AMM All-Stars @ Cafe Oto, London, 8th, Nov, 2018.

Peter Baxter - percussion, Dave Dawson - electric guitar, Paul Shearsmith - trumpet etc, Taneli Viitahuhta - flutophone, Jack Wright - alto sax.

Peter Baxter, Dave Dawson, Paul Shearsmith, Taneli Viitahuhta & Jack Wright @ Cafe Oto Project Space

From Oiro Pena 10'' (Ultra-023, 2019) limited edition of 200, silkscreened sleeves. Released on 7th of June, 2019. 
Buy vinyl ---> ultraaanirecords@gmail.com
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On Working Alone

The first person to create something one may classify as instrumental music was probably alone. The mind tingles when imagining the prehistoric moment when, for the very first time, a member of what then was the human race grabbed something and used it to make a purposeless series of sounds. Even if some of his fellow beings had been present at the time, would they have understood anything of it? Would they have taken interest in it and stopped to listen, or would they have demanded something easier to dance to?

The leap from vocalizing or clapping to a form of expression produced with instruments may have taken a long time, perhaps even a thousand years. The same goes for the fabrication of such instruments. Human communities were small, and influences spread slowly. We do know, however, that the first discovered instruments date back to 43,000 years ago and took the form of flutes made from the bones of mammoths and birds. Researchers believe they played a role in religion and in entertainment – in this sense, very little has changed. The wildest theories claim that music was one of the factors that gave us, the Homo sapiens, a competitive edge over the Neanderthal: music helped foster deeper cooperation between individuals. 

In any case, however, the ones who decided to hollow out that bone and find out what kind of sound you could get out of it were individuals, and this brings us back to our theme of working alone. The modern solo musician enjoys a much greater sense of liberty than our distant forefathers. Multi-track and recording technology freed us from our physical constraints and allowed us to imagine ourselves as a multiplicity. Everyone could, in the comfort of his home, be his own one-man band without having to strap an array of instruments onto his body like carnival musicians or Rahsaan Roland Kirk used to.

This is the frame from which A. E. Vauhkonen and Oiro Pena spring from. Vauhkonen´s hands simultaneously summon up brass, flutes, keyboards, drums, stringed instruments and all sorts of percussion. The sound is firm and slightly cosmic, like early Sun Ra Arkestra at its heartiest. But that’s enough about the music, listen for yourself. 

-Markus Karlqvist

Nimeton

Oiro Pena - Nimeton

Ensimmäisen jakson aiheena on poc-taustaisten oppilaiden kokemukset koulusta. Keskustelemassa ovat räppäri, kansalaisvaikuttaja Hassan Maikal, Feministisen puolueen varapuheenjohtaja ja aktivisti Pazilaiti Simayijiang sekä dj Hamza Al-Razzaq.

Kaikkien koulu? J1: "Suomalaisen koulun kritisoiminen on tabu" ja muita poc-oppilaiden ajatuksia

Souvenir

Simultaneli Souvenir

* taneli.viitahuhta@gmail.com * jazz DVD * Simultaneli * Pug Life * Horst Quartet * Mohel 

Peter Baxter, Dave Dawson, Paul Shearsmith, Taneli Viitahuhta & Jack Wright @ Cafe Oto Project Space

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