{"id":9809,"date":"2014-05-21T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mesenaatti-cms.karolina.io\/en\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:51:31","slug":"cirkus42-tigerbrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mesenaatti-cms-2026.karolina.io\/en\/cirkus42-tigerbrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirkus42 debut album ‘Tigerbrand’"},"content":{"rendered":"

(You can read about the project in Swedish and Finnish here) <\/a> Some things matter, and Nils Ferlin managed to put a surprising number of them into cast-iron words in his poems. Reverberating with biblical turns of phrases, Ferlin\u2019s poems bring up an unlikely set of heroes: tramps and vagabonds, freezing old geezers in the poorhouse, and the mystical beauty of nature.<\/span> The record \u201cTigerbrand\u201d is a tribute to Ferlin and a fresh, Finnish look at his poems. Perhaps we can help bring out the \u201cFinn blood\u201d that Nils claimed to have inherited. To do so, we have brought together some of the present generation\u2019s finest Finnish musician from classical music, jazz, folk and pop. \"KUVA8-2\"<\/a>
\nLife\u2019s a circus, and we\u2019re the clowns. Cirkus42 is a new project band consisting of singer \/ songwriter Petter Korkman, pianist Jan-Erik Mansikka, bass player \/ percussionist \/ singer Kaarle Mannila and guitarist Mats Nyman. After having initially chosen the songs to work on, we\u2019ve fooled around with the music and let playful experimentation take us where it would. Now we have fourteen songs ready to mix. But we need your help to walk that final mile \u2013 please help us make \u201cTigerbrand\u201d real! \"kuva<\/a>
\nIn addition to our core group, we\u2019ve had the pleasure and honour to share our musical playground with several proficient Finnish musicians: Jouko Kyh\u00e4l\u00e4 (known among other things as the founder of the internationally renowned mouth organ quartet \u201cSv\u00e4ng\u201d), Verneri Pohjola (one of Finland\u2019s most renowned jazz trumpet players), Niko Kumpuvaara (one of the foremost accordion players in the world today), as well as the brilliant \u201cJousikaiku\u201d quartet (Pasi Eerik\u00e4inen, Laura Airola, Mauri Kuokkanen and Riikka Lampinen). \"kuva<\/a> The \u201cTigerbrand\u201d project has brought together Finnish artists and singers from various genres and generations. Singers on the record are Riki Sorsa, Jonte Ramsten, Ida Olsonen, Jonas Sebastian, Elsa Korkman, Julia Korkman, Bella Jensen, Petter Korkman and Emma Salokoski. The pictures on this page are mainly by Heidi-Maria Karhu (thank you Heidi!). Finally, the music was recorded with a man who is often introduced as the best recording engineer in Finland: Speedy Saarinen.<\/span> \"KUVA7\"<\/a> Most of the music on \u201cTigerbrand\u201d has been composed by Petter Korkman, but the record also includes hitherto unpublished Ferlin-songs by some of the big names in Finnish songwriting and composition: Kaj Chydenius, Jussi Chydenius and Toivo K\u00e4rki. Special thanks go to Kalervo K\u00e4rki for digging out K\u00e4rki\u2019s compositions \u201cTre dagar\u201d and \u201cI folkviseton\u201d fr\u00e5n the family archives. Thanks in fact to all who\u2019ve shared this journey with us and made it possible. A big thank you also to Svenska kulturfonden and to Musiikin edist\u00e4misen s\u00e4\u00e4ti\u00f6. Now all that remains is to mix, master and print the cd. This is what we need your help for. Please help us raise the funds to finalize this chapter of Finnish and Scandinavian culture! Before you go, please listen to our second \u201csingle\u201d from \u201cTigerbrand\u201d. This is the song Cirkus, based on a poem that provided us with a name both for the band Cirkus42 and for the record \u201cTigerbrand\u201d. The video was produced by Nils-Erik Ekblom and Petter Korkman, and the song is performed by Jonte Ramsten. Enjoy!