Release Date: 15 April 2013
Label: Rockadillo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6418691214929
Genres: World Music  
Release Date: 15 April 2013
Label: Rockadillo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6418691214929
Genres: World Music  
Description
Follow up to the 2010 release Koli that reached No1 on World Music Chart Europe. Piirpauke, the Finnish pioneer of World Music since 1974, has made a major comeback in the last couple of years andwWith Koli Piirpauke returned to the group's roots as a jazz band playing Finnish folk songs.
The band leader Sakari Kukko (saxophones, flutes, keyboards etc.) and long-time Piirpauke member Ismaila Sane (percussion, vocals) were joined by the top-class jazz rhythm section of Eerik Siikasaari (bass) & Rami Eskelinen (drums) of Trio Töykeät fame as well as rock guitarist Jukka Orma (Sielun Veljet), who was soon replaced by Nicolas Rehn.
The Piirpauke line-up was completed by trumpet player Kalevi Louhivuori for concerts and the Ilo sessions. Piirpauke has always featured excellent musicians - remember the World famous classical conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and guitarist Hasse Walli on the early hit Konevitsan kirkonkellot - but the current band is probably the strongest Piirpauke ever. These musicans feel equally at home with jazz, folk and classical music, and are able to create a unique fusion of different influences. On Ilo Piirpauke performs music by Finnish composers Merikanto and Lithander, some Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and South-Indian master Tyagajara as well as traditional songs from Tibet and Peloponnesos, Greece. This is the spirit of Piirpauke and this is World Music indeed!
Tracklisting
Wimme
Kimmo Pohjonen Echampard
Varttina
RinneRadio
JPP
Rinneradio
RinneRadio
RinneRadio
Toumani Diabate
Guts
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Lolita
Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers
Lux Musicae London
Various Artists
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt