Current projects, solo:

  • Solo Improvised Music. Steel-string acoustic guitar/electric guitar. If possible, I always prefer to play acoustically. If not, I play through an amp.
  • Free Jazz Ballads/Skeleton Ballads. Arrangements of music by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Fahey etc. Electric guitar.
  • Open Resonances. Improvised music, original compositions and arrangement with open tunings. Steel-string acoustic guitar.

Clockwise from top: Performing at the Sibelius Museum, Turku, March 2022 (picture by Santeri Niemi). Self-portrait at Titanik Gallery, June 2018. Pyramidit (picture by Jussi Virkkumaa). Kultapalmut (picture by Rasmus Forssell).

Current collaborations

  • Kultapalmut – live experimental cinema and improvised music
    Electric and acoustic guitars, electronics w/ Pauliina Mäkelä, visual art/live projections
  • Salo Ra II – improvised and experimental electronic music
    Electric guitars, amplifiers and devices w/Jussi Lehtisalo
  • Pekka Laine & The Enchanted – live realisations of Pekka Laine’s music
    Electric and acoustic guitars w/ Pekka Laine, electric guitars, Tommi Pietiläinen, electric and acoustic guitars, Toni Liimatta, keyboards, Väinö Karjalainen, bass, and Mooses Kuloniemi, drums
  • Seitsemäs taivas – live scores for silent films / backing band for Lau Nau
    Electric and acoustic guitars, electronics w/ Laura Naukkarinen, piano, electronics, voice, and Hermanni Yli-Tepsa, violin, bass, electronics
  • Tahmela Six – Free Jazz and collective improvisation
    Electric guitars w/ Sami Sippola, Otto Eskelinen, Eero Savela, Eero Tikkanen and Janne Tuomi
  • Pymathon – improvised thrash/death metal/noise
    Electric guitar /w Tommi Keränen, noise, Atte Häkkinen, vocals, Jaakko Tolvi, drums
  • Jooklo Quartet / Muumiot – old school free jazz
    Electric guitar w/ Virginia Genta, saxophones, David Vanzan, drums, Tero Kemppainen, bass. Muumiot add: Sami Pekkola, saxophones, and Tuure Tammi, trumpet
  • I fortunati – baroque improvisations
    Baroque guitar w/Tuomas Kourula, theorbo and archlute