Tatu Back, best known for Erja Lyytinen's band, leads his progeor Orchestra in the footsteps of Pekka Pohjola to pieces of music that stretch to epic proportions.

Debut album of Musta Leskinen. A pile of instrumental swinging rock with trace amounts of Hendrix and ZZ Top.

The ensemble bases its style on modern jazz impressionism and post-bop, but also finds new nuances and viewpoints to its music outside of jazz.

Wigwam was founded after the split of the seminal Blues Section, with whom drummer Ronnie Österberg had played before.

Originally gig started with "Just My Situation".

Wigwam, who released two albums in February 1971, lived through the richest period of his career.

Joona Toivanen Trio returns to We Jazz Records with their new album "Gravity", out 31 January 2025. A landmark work for the long standing group, the album showcases the forward-looking sound of the band, moving way beyond the basic scope of the "piano trio". There’s a startling sense of telepathy and intimacy at work in the music of the Joona Toivanen Trio, something you can glean from the opening moments of their latest album, Gravity. It’s that rare synergy that can only come with years of time spent together onstage, in the rehearsal space, on tour throughout Europe, en route to the next show. To look at the discography of the Finnish piano trio is to see a relationship that stretches back to the year 2000, when they self-released their first album, Numurkah. Only, the connection between pianist Joona Toivanen, drummer Olavi Louhivuori, and bassist Tapani Toivanen goes back even further. “Tapani is my younger brother and we moved to a neighborhood in Jyväskylä in central Finland when I was seven,” Joona Toivanen says. “And on my first day at school I met Olavi, who was in the same class as me!” Nowadays, the trio is geographically split between Gothenburg, Sweden (Joona), Copenhagen, Denmark (Tapani), and Helsinki, Finland (Olavi), but the unit sounds together as ever thanks to their extensive track record in developing their band sound.

Niin kuin Ismo Alanko laulaa: ”Rakkaus on ruma sana, kaipaus soi kauniimpana”.

Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho, teacher and pupil, are both key figures in the Finnish music of their respective generations. Rautavaara’s musical language evolved from neoclassicism through dodecaphony and the stylistic freedom of the 1960s before he eventually allowed himself to choose his expressive idiom according to the individual requirements of his works. Towards the end of his career, his works took on a very consistent, softtoned character. For his part, Aho also began his career using a freely applied neoclassical style before gradually progressing to a more varied, at times modernist expressive and incisive approach.

Kriya, meaning "work" or "action" in Sanskrit, is an ensemble of top Finnish and Indian musicians. The varied musical background of its members is audible in its music, a combination of not only rock and jazz but also folk and classical Indian music. Most of the pieces were composed by guitarist Peter Lerche. The songs are in Sanskrit, Pali and Finnish.

The Finnish pianist, composer, and piano teacher Ilmari Hannikainen (1892 - 1955) wrote over one hundred solo songs. As a child, he accompanied his mother, the singer Alfhild "Alli" Hannikainen (1967 - 1949), on the piano. His own songs bear dedications to her and to many other well-known Finnish singers of the time, some of whom he also performed with. As late as the 1950s, he recorded several songs for Finnish Radio, but unfortunately, only a few of the recordings have survived.

Varjola, named as suomirock's black sheep, released his long-worked debut album ”100 ugly emotional states”today.

I dreamed of a faraway land-the album's music is inspired by six paintings from the history of Finnish visual art. The music on the album serves as a free-form soundtrack for these works and beckons listeners to make their own interpretations and journeys between sound and image. The album comes with a picture booklet with photographs of the paintings that inspired the music.

"The first time I heard the vibraphonist Severi Pyysalo, who appears on the album, was when he was 16 years old. I was sold by then, he has always been a role model for me.