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The new CD has been chosen "RECORD OF THE MONTH" May/2009 by Finnish National Radio Company YLE / Jazz Radio!!.................................................
PELOTON TRIO will perform in a new choreography of JENNI KIVELÄ : Viimeinen nauru, in the center for new dance -ZODIAK in May 2009. The dancers are ELINA HAUTA-AHO, ANDRIUS KATINAS, LEILA KOURKIA and NINU LINDFORS. The piece is great! Working with JOHANNA STORM (the sound engineer ) expands our music even further than before. Great thanks to light designer HEIKKI PAASONEN, set designer SALLA SALIN and costume designer KAROLIINA KOISO-KANTTILA.........................................................................................................................
PELOTON was formed by Eero Savela and Pentti Luomakangas in 2004. Bassplayer Tero Siitonen and Hannu Risku, the drummer, joined afterwards. Soon Peloton was already involved in a ”FREEJAZZBALLET”
in Taidehalli (Helsinki City Art Museum) in an exhibition of a marvelous artist - Maria Duncker. An improvising dance company, RIO REAL TIME ORCHESTRA (Riikka Theresa Innanen, Giorgio Convertito, Michael Stoeckel) did the dancing and Roosa Voima was involved with her grace and spoken word performance of the Finnish punkrocklegend Pelle Miljoonas lyrics in German. This spectacular show left some stunned people behind. Althought working under file -” jazz”, the group also performed ”War Pigs” of Black Sabbath as a choir. War Pigs, antimilitary message, blood and great music tunes, costumes by Maria Duncker was a great start for the band............................PELOTON & RIO REAL TIME ORCHESTRA started a monthly club called - Kohtauspaikka: The Helsinki Meeting Point. This club for improvising musicians and dancers, originally from The Bimhuis Club, Amsterdam, has turned out to be a success in Holland and now here in The North.................................PELOTON started making collaboration with Kinos String Quartet. The repertoire of the group started widening since new possibilities were at hand. Soon pieces ”Forum for Peace” and ”Samurai” clearly showed that Peloton had outlived its main concept as playing fierce and fiery music even though those elements are still heavily present in the music . Exciting musical worlds were to conquer.......................PELOTON AND KINOS STRING QUARTET made a tour in Italy in 2006 which showed that the collaboration was worth making a recordind. Plans for a recording took quite long and in the end of 2008 Tapani Varis replaced Tero on the bass and the octet went to a studio to record the debut CD- "FUNERAL, CIRCUS & OTHER MUSIC". In just 3 days all the the tracks were recorded in January 2009 by Marko Ylianttila, the sound engineer. Jaakko Viitalähde did the mastering. Great coverwork by Oona Loman. The group is happy with the results................................The CD is OUT NOW! LILITH Label and will be distributed by Playground. The musical worlds combine silent sadness with fierce musical infernoes..................
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PEEPING TOM meets GOLDEN HAMMER (Fra/Fin) Pierre-Antoine Badaroux: alto saxophone Joel Grip: acoustic bass Antonin Gerbal: drums Sami Sippola: saxophones Ville Rauhala: acoustic bass Simo Laihonen: drums, flutes
