by Antti Hietala | Mar 18, 2026 | Agency, We Jazz |
Agent:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 371 “A fresh breeze of disruption and seduction.” This is how trumpet player Goran Kajfeš was described by newspaper Dagens Nyheter in the motivation for his 2025 Culture Prize nomination. Goran Kajfeš Subtropic...
by Antti Hietala | Mar 18, 2026 | Agency, We Jazz |
Agent:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 The Goran Kajfeš Tropiques quartet consists of Goran Kajfeš (trumpet, synthesizer), Alexander Zethson (piano, organ, synthesizer), Johan Berthling (acoustic bass) and Johan Holmegard (drums) – each a key member...
by wordpress | Jan 14, 2026 | Agency, other power
Agent: Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 Islaja is Merja Kokkonen: a composer, performer and recording artist who after living and working in Berlin for over a decade, is now in 2024 permanently back in Helsinki Finland. Since her debut in...
by Antti Hietala | Jan 13, 2026 | Agency, We Jazz
Agent: Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 Helsinki tenor saxophonist Jussi Kannaste’s debut album as a band leader has been a long time coming. A top musician in the local scene revered by his contemporaries and sought after as a band...
by Antti Hietala | Jan 13, 2026 | Agency, other power
Agents:Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710Antti Hietala / antti@wejazz.fi / +358 44 560 8969 What do you get when you fuse the headiness of kosmische with the visceral impact of techno, the intensity of metal with the churning power of dark ambient?...
by Antti Hietala | Jan 12, 2026 | Agency, We Jazz
Agent: Teemu Markkula / teemu@wejazz.fi / +358 40 763 3710 Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen), Linda Fredriksson and Matti Bye form Kiri Ra!, a trio that creates their sound slowly, in a process of improvisation and discovery. Filtered through the musicians’ long-standing...
