PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA: Sohjo

Pekka Lehti & Outo Voima

Sohjo

© 2003 Balbassu Productions (634479117220)

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"This is an album of danger and smokey desire, with just enough nostalgia thrown in to tug at the heartstrings. Unforgettable." - Fiona Talkington-BBC Online

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Sohjo - a twilight zone of many conflicting feelings at the same time.
The tinge of sorrow in a laugh, a cry that can change to happiness...

PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA clubs together three astonishing stars from the skies of the Finnish world music scene. Known to be a mesmerizing live act, PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA consists of the following players; the bass player Pekka Lehti, who begun his professional career at the age of seventeen and has since contributed to the success of such world-famous bands as Värttinä and ZetaBoo, the percussionist Marko Timonen and the kantele and harmonium player Jouko Kyhälä.
In 2003 PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA made the headlines through their passionate appereances at the Helsinki Festival.
The threesome's genuine love for their art was given form in March 2003 as their debut album 'Sohjo' was released by Aito Records. 'Sohjo' gained instant recognizition world-wide and was praised for its honesty and purity.

PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA has bound together all the inspiring aspects of Nordic world music including their own personalities to create an exquisite album of true and passionate music. PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA has those passionate, timeless, enchanting qualities that separate them from the masses. Even in the frost of Finland no audience has been left cold to this band. Prepare yourself, for PEKKA LEHTI & OUTO VOIMA will captivate you for good.

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  • I really don't know exactly why - but the music of Pekka Lehti & Outo Voima fasc
    author: FolkWorld

    Music from Finland is often very special - somehow in Europe's northeast musicians have other ideas than in the rest of Europe. Pekka Lehti with his unique music is no exception... Pekka Lehti plays the upright bass. His band Outo Voima (= unknown force) is named after the first band (a punk rock group) Pekka played in about 20 years ago. Outo Voima consist of the percussionist Marko Timonen and Jouko Kyhälä on Harmonium, harmonicas, melodica, claviola, overtone singing and kantele. All the compositions are made by Pekka Lehti, except one that he has made together with his band and one one of Jouko Kyhälä. I really don't know exactly why - but the music of Pekka Lehti & Outo Voima fascinates me a lot. It is not easy to be classified, it is very catchy, there are several instrumental earwigs, it is inspiring and often unexpected things happen. The tunes are somehow nostalgic, but still in today's times. As I said it is unique music - and if you now still do not know, what music they are playing, go and buy 'Sohjo'! Christian Moll-FolkWorld

  • Unforgettable.
    author: Fiona Talkington-BBC online

    The combination of bass, percussion, harmonium, harmonicas, melodica, claviola, overtone singing and kantele is a hard one to bring off. There are few who would dare go down this road, and there are certainly few who could do so in a way which isn't gimmicky or seriously weird.  Not that there's anything wrong with seriously weird, and if there's one man who can explore those jagged frontiers and leave you begging for more it's bassist Pekka Lehti. For ten years Lehti was bassist with Finnish band Värttinä,  But although his roots, like theirs, go back to Karelian soil, it was with punk band Outo Voima he made his first musical mark. Along the way he's inhabited the jazz world too, and found inspiration from Nino Rota, Mingus and Piazzolla. Lehtis is joined by percussionist Marko Timonen and multi-instrumentalist Jouko Kyhälä, making music which would be as at home in the searing heat of the Californian deserts as by a Finnish lake in midsummer.  From the gentle bells of the opening and a bass line which creeps into your consciousness you're gripped by a musical force which could go in any direction.  Its inherent beauty is unsettling; the physical effect of its rhythms is compulsive.  It's in track 2, though, 'Snadina', where you say to this album, "take me I'm yours": the harmonica's seduction is impossible to resist. In 'Ite' the same harmonica aches until all passion is spent, and you realise that all along you were being dragged in the direction of a Finnish folk dance.  'Jenkka Skitsofrenia' is full of circus sounds, sinister and dark, a truly schizophrenic take on a traditional tune, while 'Skrubu' is cabaret tango, snaking its way into the days of the 1930s European tango, storm clouds gathering with the insistent rhythms of the snare drum. This is an album of danger and smokey desire, with just enough nostalgia thrown in to tug at the heartstrings.  Unforgettable.

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