Elvin Jones, Milford Graves, Edward Vesala, Ed Thigpen, Rashied Ali, Ed Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Cyrille, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Paul Lovens, Hamid Drake, Fritz Hauser, Pierre Favre, Raymond Strid, Sven-Åke Johansson, John Bergamo, Glen Velez, Layne Redmond, Airto Moreira, Mickey Hart, Peter Erskine, Billy Higgins, Al Foster, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Cecil Talor, Albert Ayler, Roswell Rudd, Charles Mingus, Hal Russell, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, Steve Reich, George Crumb, Harry Partch, Jean Sibelius, J.S.Bach, Alan Silva, Don Cherry, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Mats Gustafsson, Milt Jackson, Prince, ...
Sounds Like
water, tree, fire, earth, metal
Press quotes:
RESONANCE (FMR-Records)
"'Resonance' features Janne Tuomi on solo percussion, recorded at the
Church of Kuhmalahti, with all pieces composed by Tuomi. This is all
acoustic percussion music and it is superbly recorded. This music is
closer to classical percussion music in its sound and it is
consistently thoughtful and engaging. On "Kunlun I", Janne
concentrates on just a gong and comes up with some impressive and
mysterious results. A most impressive offering from a young
master-percussionist that we ill be hearing more from in the near
future."
Bruce Lee Gallanter
Downtown Music Gallery
"...There are nine tracks and the order presents a nice package of contrasting textures and styles. Included in this collection are three short works that feature various cymbal and tam-tam combinations, and it is interesting how the sub-tones of tam-tams take on a drone effect. The drum pieces contain rhythmic passages, but the writing style has a very free and spaced mood, thus taking on a feeling of improvisation.. ..The recording level is excellent, and the performance demonstrates the artist's sensitivity and technical skill. This CD will be of interest to those wanting to experience percussion from Switzerland"
George Frock
Percussive Notes
"I really don't understand this album. I found it in the jazz section of my local library, and expected something of that sort. Jazz drumming would've kept me interested, seeing as I've really loved the few drum solos I've experienced. But what I got instead is... indescribeable.
It's certainly a creative use of percussion, making sounds that a drum set normally wouldn't produce. "Kunlun I" can only be identified as ambient, which I'd never imagined to hear on a solo percussion album."
Anonymous
APPROACHING (Ektro Records)
"Approaching shows that Tuomi, while absorbing useful precedents from a range of musical fields, has developed his own vision of where the percussionist's role may take him."
The structure of Approaching, its varied instrumentation and mutations of pace readily suggest narrative, with Tuomi as storyteller relating a journey through a series of states from turbulence to eventual meditative calm. More importantly, it's a lively and serious engagement with the power, colour and nuance of sound. The rattling shells, gong splash and tinkling bells are evocative but they are also as much the substance of the music as Tuomi's energetic polyrhytmic kitwork."
”Approaching shows that Tuomi, while absorbing useful precedents from a range of musical fields, has developed his own vision of where the percussionist's role may take him.”
The Wire
By Julian Cowley
"..he uses a range of gongs and tuned percussion as well as trumpet to create a scenario that is meditative and dramatic by turns. There are a number of sounds that suggest an Eastern provenance placed next to the muted melodies of an African mbira. It is a very effective and attractive fusion whatever the sources may be."
”Tuomi’s use of wide ranging tones contributes to the cd’s distinctive soundscapes. They feel as though they have been carefully collaged using instrumental soundings that entirely compliment each other. It is both colourful and absorbing in its execution and the deployment of materials and should certainly tempt anyone who thinks an album consisting solely of percussion is not for them.”
Paul Donnelly
www.ejazznews.com
”Tuomi’s solo methodolgy consists of noisy drumkit bashing alternating with gongs and cymbals sounding in shimmering waves, a pattern that takes on the feel of ritual. The drones, rattles, and sickly trumpet added to this at various times increase the aura of mystery and elemental energy.”
”The final piece, ”Contemplation,” really emphasizes the ritual aspect as Tuomi moves from cymbals to Indian drones to thumb piano and, finally, gongs with a grand sense of form and purpose, not unlike what the late Finnish drummer Edward Vesala used to do in his bands. A lot of Finnish jazz draws from the folk elements of their culture. Here is one impressive example."
Jerome Wilson
Cadence Jazz Magazine
”Approaching does not sound like jazz in the conventional sense. It does not swing, and it is often difficult, even impossible, to ascertain how much is composed and how much is improvised. Yet, this is ordered, thoughtful music, and it is pleasantly surprising how much there is to hear.”
” Tuomi builds each piece carefully, even meticulously.”
”adventurous, unique album.”
Marc Meyers
AllAbout Jazz
”...the drumming is so intensely enjoyable it needs to be heard without accompaniment to be enjoyed properly. Difficult, but deep and rewarding, ‘Approaching’ is a marvellous record.”
Boomkat Records
”Carefully constructed, rising and falling, with hazy drone and dramatic clatter, soothing bells and rattling sticks...not a noisy racket at all, but a personal sound-world quite listenable for something that falls into the 'solo percussion' category.”
Aquarius Records
"It's difficult to find words that do justice to conservatory-trained Finnish percussionist, free-music journeyman, and occasional Circle drummer Janne Tuomi. Approaching, his solo debut from 2004, kicks up clouds of sustained, polymorphous rhythms that are as stark as an empty temple yet as powerful as a collapsing building. Well-placed bursts of pocket trumpet and reverberating gongs add color to the shifting, tidal clatter. Like a less industrial, quieter Z'ev for the new millennium, Tuomi has located a unique intersection between avant-garde drone, the jazz improv of Edward Vesala or Milford Graves, and the grace of mother nature herself."
HarvestTime Records
Janne Tuomi was born in 1973 in Tampere, Finland. Coming from a family of musicians and music educators, it was only natural that this first-born began playing the piano at the age of six. But the infatuation was not to last as percussion soon lured him away from the ebonies and ivories.
Tuomi commenced studying at the Conservatory of Tampere in 1995 and further honed his skills at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark. After undertaking a study trip to New York City, Tuomi graduated from the Conservatory in 2000 with honours.
In 2001 he travelled to Los Angeles to take private lessons and to play with local musicians in eg Jazz Club Baked Potato. Five years later, Tuomi passed his degree examination with honours with a solo concert at the contemporary music festival Tampere Biennale.
During his professional career Tuomi has acted as a free jazz drummer, classical percussonist and everything in between. He has performed with guitarists Antti Kotikoski, Raymond Boni, Sakari Luoma and Marzi Nyman, saxophonists John Zorn, Daunik Lazro, Jone Takamäki and Jorma Tapio, pianists Iro Haarla and Seppo Kantonen, bass players Ulf Krokfors, Sampo Lassila and Claude Tchamitchian and numerous others.
Apart from recording and performing various styles of music with a burning passion, Tuomi teaches percussion both privately and at the Palmgren Conservatory in Pori. He is also experienced as a theater musician.
Janne Tuomi’s critically acclaimed debut solo cd 'Approaching' was released in 2004 by Ektro Records (Pori). 'Resonance', second solopercussion-cd was released in 2008 by Future Music Records (UK). Third solo-cd 'elg' (recorded 2005) will be out soon on FMR-Records.
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