Land Ahead! Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine

• 1 Land Ahead! 04:56
• 2 Saba Dance 03:37
• 3 Kamelimmaito 05:11
• 4 Leadershipping 04:53
• 5 Forward 02:43
• 6 Loitsu / Opening Spell 06:14
• 7 Hunting Song 04:40
• 8 Fear of Darkness 10:19
• Total Runtime 42:33

Info for Land Ahead!

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine consists of six musicians from the top of the Finnish rhythmic music scene. Bringing together musicians from different music genres creates an interesting mix of folk and jazz expression spiced up with modern beats and cinematic soundscapes. Especially Middle Eastern flavors are strong in their music. The band is known for its powerful live shows filled with emotional expression and irresistibly catchy grooves. ​

"Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine's concert offered hypnotic groove sections, horn unisonos, percussion battles, fiery solos and fragile atmospheres. Group's set was versatile and colorful and very emotionally appealing. A bit of advertising here: this band fits to any folk, world or jazz festival and they can even put up a dabke dance party if needed. The band's first album will be released next fall, can't wait." (SUOMIJAZZ.COM) ​

Ilkka Arola, quartertone trumpet, flugelhorn
Max Zenger, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, flute
Eeti Nieminen, drums
Topi Korhonen, electric guitar, oud
Esko Grundström, double bass
Juuso Hannukainen, percussion, electronics

Ilkka Arola
(b. 1988) is a Finnish trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist who writes music full of powerful stories, strong rhythms and cinematic soundscapes. ​

Ilkka Arola started as a jazz musician but he nowadays sees himself more as a crossover artist always looking for new interesting music to get inspired from. Traveling in Middle East and Africa has had a great impact on his music as well as recognizing his own roots in Nordic culture. His special Quartertone trumpet and flugelhorn allow him to play Arabic maqams and other microtonal music.

In quest for meaningful music making Arola started to imitate human voice with his trumpet. By singing through his trumpet Arola tells powerful stories without words. A good story is something Arola is always looking for when writing and arranging music. His has released two full length albums - From the Depths of the Earth (2017) and Land Ahead! (2019).

Besides leading his own group, Ilkka Arola works as a teacher, composer and arranger, and performs regularly with variety of groups as a horn, percussion, ukulele and bouzouki player as well as a background singer. Ilkka Arola completed his Master studies in Aarhus, Denmark in 2016 (The Nordic Master of Global Music) which included intensive field studies in Palestine, Egypt, Mali and India. Before that he studied pop and jazz music and pedagogics in Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory and Helsinki Metropolia the University of Applied Sciences. ​

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