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Release Date: 19-01-2006
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: ZENCD2095
Barcode: 6418691209529
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Konevitsan kirkonkellot [05:07] | 10 | Rondo á la Turca [03:55] |
| 2 | Imala Maika [04:03] | 11 | Hullu Sakari (Crazy Sakari) [03:42] |
| 3 | Soi vienosti murheeni soitto [04:42] | 12 | La Luna [04:10] |
| 4 | Swedish Reggae [06:02] | 13 | Tuku Tuku [03:30] |
| 5 | Kylätiellä (Village Lane) [02:16] | 14 | Anillo / Tuohinen sormus (Birch Bark Ring) [02:31] |
| 6 | Vastaa, ystävä Answer, Friend) [03:58] | 15 | Nun minä neitonen [04:07] |
| 7 | Joropo Llanero (The Dance of Llanos) [03:14] | 16 | Suutarin emännän kehtolaulu - Viva Saappaatta (Sin Zapatos) [04:57] |
| 8 | Berceuce [03:04] | 17 | La Fuente [04:05] |
| 9 | Muheva muuttuja (Rites of Passage) [04:42] | 18 | Serenadi (Ständchen) [03:55] |
Description:
Many Piirpauke tracks such as 'Konevitsan kirkonkellot', 'Soi vienosti murheeni soitto', 'Joropo Llanero' and 'Tuku tuku' endure time. This 30 years Anniversary compilation documents the development of true world music band, its various lineups and the inexhaustible energy of its mastermind Sakari Kukko.
Biography:
Over quarter century ago, when most people had never even heard about world music, much less heard it or played it, Sakari Kukku (saxophones, flutes, keybords, percussion, vocals) started to do it with his band Piirpauke. Springing from the solid bottom of jazzy improvisation, rock'n'rolling attitude and the ancient echoes of Finnish folk melodies the band dived into the ocean that is the sum total of whole mankind's music. In a quarter of a century - time flies, doesn't it? - the personnel and the musical main ingredients of Piirpauke, have changed many times, but the spirit of exploration had stayed the same.
When asked what it actually is that keeps him interested in this world music thing even after such a long time, Sakari doesn't have to think for long. It's the very same thing that I realized 25 years ago, when I started to research the world's different musics. It dawned on me in a big way that I was digging at a treasure chest that really has no bottom. I mean, I've been digging ever since and there is not the slightest feeling of having exhausted this thing. It is simply impossible to exhaust it. Working the different traditions and styles from different parts of the world you get there realizations how seemingly disparate things go together. Things just click into place. It really makes you think about oneness of mankind. Often I can't help feeling that I've arrived at sounds, melodies or rhythms that speak to man's deepest core. Way past all boundaries.
