Thilia Tamminen, vocals 
Jasse Merivirta, piano 
Samuli Kivelä, guitar (Clocks)
Ossi Maristo, guitar (Stars, Unessa)
Jukka Haavisto, bass 
Joonas Kaikko, drums 
Markus Jaatinen, percussions

Virva Quintet is the debut project of Finnish jazz singer-songwriter Virva Immonen, born in 1987. While living and studying in Tallinn, Estonia in 2014, she formed Virva Quintet with four Estonian musician friends. During 2015-16 they recorded a well received album "Fly" (published by Eclipse Music in February 2016) and performed actively in Estonia and in southern Finland.  Since then the group's path ended, but you'll find more of Immonen's current work on her website virvaimmonen.com.


Virva Quintet:
Keio Vutt - saxophones
Britta Virves - piano
Siim Usin - bass
Karl-Juhan Laanesaar - drums
Virva Immonen - vocals, compositions & lyrics

A trio of "electronic wizardry that merges trap-like beats with experimental pop and intense head-banging".

Morr is an intricately dynamic creature with delicate humanlike qualities. She is represented by us and our creatural characteristics. Morr wants you to know her. She wants to reach out to you by expressing her murky melodies and stay with you, to belong. She will pound inside our chests, wanting us to move synchronously to the raw energetic beats. Contradictorily she also doesn't want you to see her true face, and therefore she is lonely. Morr is in all of us.


Morr's members come from Iceland, Finland and the UK but they are based in Amsterdam. They have backgrounds in jazz, classical, hip hop, pop and many more styles, and have each stepped out of their comfort zones to create a soundworld of their own, inspired by such artists as FKA Twigs, I Break Horses, TNGHT, Flying Lotus, Björk, Arca, James Blake and Radiohead to name a few. 

Viba is a Helsinki-based band that released its debut album (also called 'Viba') in February 2019. Their music has been described by critics as fresh and interesting, difficult to label under any one style or genre. Singer-songwriter Virva Immonen lets all of her musical influences mix in her compositions, in which alternative pop, jazz and progressive rock idioms live naturally in the same universe. Immonen plays around with speech, jazz phrasing and ethereal pop melodies while dealing with human imperfection and life's unpredictable nature in her lyrics.

Keyboardist Toomas Keski-Säntti, bass player Oskari Siirtola and drummer Okko Saastamoinen are established in the Finnish jazz scene, known from groups such as OK:KO and Sointi Jazz Orchestra. Viba's unique sound is created by their playful approach to Immonen's songs, as synthesizers and varied effects are infused into the band's modern and minimalistic expression. Viba also makes room for improvising, especially in live performances, which beautifully completes Immonen's story-oriented mindscape.

Contact: virva.immonen@gmail.com

Kirjeitä Miniltä -kokoonpanon kappaleet ovat Minna "Mini" Tuuliaisen säveltämiä ja sanoittamia, ja sovituksista vastaa koko yhtye. Heidän musiikissaan laulelma ja jazz yhdistyvät suomalaiseen mielenmaisemaan. Kappaleista huokuu suomalaisuus sekä musiikillisesti että suomenkielisten sanoitusten kautta. Jazz puolestaan yhdistää ryhmää vahvasti niin soitannollisesti kuin sävellystenkin puolesta.

Yhtyeen jäsenet:

Minna Tuuliainen - laulu
Vili Itäpelto - piano
Joel Parvamo - kitara
Sami Nummela - rummut
Mari Talala - trumpetti/flyygelitorvi
Mikael Saastamoinen - kontrabasso

In English: 

Minna composes all the group’s songs and lyrics, and the band as a whole makes the arrangements. In their music folk and jazz combine with Finnish mental landscape. The songs emanate being Finnish in compositions and through the lyrics written in Finnish. Jazz music also connects the musicians strongly in arrangements and compositions. 

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