Puna, by Oiro Pena

Puna

by Oiro Pena

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1.	Puna 08:16	buy track
2.	Joona's Abs 05:56	buy track
3.	Kaiju Kaiju 04:49	buy track
4.	Mythical Mist 03:59	buy track
5.	Joo Tai 04:16	buy track
6.	Kuinka kukaan 06:23	buy track
7.	Calamity Caravan 03:48	buy track

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Oiro Pena is a Finnish jazz collective helmed by prolific composer Antti Vauhkonen. Their forthcoming album, Puna, recorded in bedrooms, studios and other salubrious locations around Helsinki during 2022, is a mix of lo-fi spiritual jazz, experimental, and avant-garde music forms. It includes four vocal tracks recorded with Merikukka Kiviharju, which feature both original lyrics and those sourced from traditional Finnish folk songs. Vauhkonen first attracted attention as saxophonist in the group Soft Power. He then launched Oiro Pena as solo multi-instrumentalist with two self-titled, astral, outsider jazz 10” EPs, released by Ultraääni in 2019, limited to 200 copies, since repressed three times and seriously in demand.

With a background in electronic music, Vauhkonen explains his transition into avant-garde / spiritual jazz: "It came from Krautrock first, I started listening to Can, and searched through all the psychedelic German rock bands. There was a lot of jazzier elements there, horns and saxophones, I think it came from there, and then I found Miles Davis and John Coltrane (and) started listening to the early Sun Ra material."

Puna features the interplay of vocalist Merikukka Kiviharju (Fat Chance, Jazzgangsters) on tracks 'Puna', Kaiju Kaiija', 'Kuinka Kukaan' and 'Calamity Caravan', matching with the intensity of Johannes Sarjasto’s saxophone, and Staffan Södergård’s piano. The album, like previous releases is built around Vauhkonen’s propulsive drumming and Philip Holm’s upright bass that provides the band with its forward momentum. Johannes Sarjasto’s flute, so much a part of previous Oiro Pena group recordings, also features on this release.

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released August 4, 2023

Antti Vauhkonen: Drums
Johannes Sarjasto: Saxophone, Flute
Philip Holm: Double Bass
Staffan ''Wolf'' Södergård: Piano
Merikukka Kiviharju: Vocals

Mastered By: Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Mastering in Toronto.
Artwork: Riina Tanskanen
Layout: Steve Lewin

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