TUNTO-NuJazz from Finland
Tunto is a NuJazz Trio from Helsinki, Finland. I spoke with Matti Wallenius, composer,guitarist, banjo and ukulele player, about their 3rd cd “lempi”.
He told me interesting facts about producing this album and getting this special sound, combining acoustic and electronic elements.
Q: short bio?
A: born 1958 I pick up the guitar at the age of 12. In the 60´s a neighbour of mine owned jukeboxes, so me and my brother bought a lot of great stuff from him. Beatles, Stones, Cream… all the english 60´s heroes and some american too. So i thought playing guitar would be a cool thing including also long hair. In school I had a teacher who was a jazz musician (saxophon player Sven Nygård), a skillfull professional, and he was the main influence to become a musician. On the other hand I was not too keen on studying anything else. So we played throught the schoolyears, and in 1976 I went to study some music on Oulunkylä pop-jazz academy, which I never graduated.
In 1979 I played guitar in a puppet theatre and that lead me doing various theatre works in different theatres for over ten years, playing, writing music and even acting. I played also commercial music, weddings, birthdays etc…
In 1993 I joined Rinneradio, maybe the most known finnish techno influenced nu-jazz band. At that time there was the joiker Wimme Saari joiking – joiking is sami peoples chanting, kind of singing – with Rinneradio, but after a short time Tapani Rinne ,the leader of the band, decided to form an own band round Wimme and asked if I would be interested to join. So we started Wimme and we are still working with it.
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