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Pioneers: JPP’s forty years of sizzling folk

Think Nordic fiddle music is sleepy or screechy? Maybe you haven’t heard folk group JPP (Järvelän...

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Pioneers: Jori Hulkkonen – Starting from the top, going with the flow

Jori Hulkkonen describes his career spanning over three decades as "going with the flow". The pioneering...

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Pioneers: Almost a comeback – The Rasmus found the joy of being a band again

"We had decided that there wouldn't be a book about The Rasmus before we quit. And...

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Pioneers: Hitmaker Jaakko Salovaara shaped the sound of the new millennium

October 1999 was a spectacular month for Finnish music and club music overall: Darude's "Sandstorm" and...

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Pioneers: Amorphis blazed Finnish metal’s path into the mainstream

In 1994, five long-haired guys, barely aged 20, recorded the metal album Tales from the Thousand...

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Pioneers: Kari Kriikku – clarinettist extraordinaire

Lively and charismatic onstage, Kari Kriikku is one of Europe’s top clarinettists in the contemporary classical...

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Pioneers: To infinity and beyond – four decades of Värttinä

Turning forty in 2023, Värttinä is by far the most successful and internationally acclaimed Finnish world...

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Pioneers: Inside the weird world of Circle

One of the most idiosyncratic Finnish rock bands from the past decades, Circle turned 30 years...

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Pioneers: Pianist Iro Haarla’s future vision

Pianist-composer Iro Haarla became one of Finnish jazz’s first prominent female instrumentalists more than four decades...

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