Iiro Rantala My Finnish Calendar

Iiro Rantala is a jazz chameleon who loves to appear in many guises. The Finnish pianist invariably springs a surprise with the concepts for his albums, particularly those of his solo piano projects. For "My Finnish Calendar", he has turned a new page: this is improvised music but with an extra-musical narrative: from a very personal and Finnish point of view, he has set to music the passing of a complete year in his home country, and he has done it with his typical mixture of melodic inventiveness, melancholy and humour. His well-known technical finesse and mastery, acquired over the years, have been applied here with an unerring instinct for bringing the essential to the fore.Each piece on this album represents a month of the year, and each also exists as an independent artistic statement. And if the storyline might not alw...

Iiro Rantala / piano

Recorded by Klaus Scheuermann at the ACT Art Collection Berlin, November 30, 2018
Mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann
Iiro Rantala played on the “Alfred Brendel” Steinway D-524780, tuned by Thomas Hübsch
Cover art by Mimmo Paladino, used with the kind permission of the artist
Music composed by Iiro Rantala
Iiro Rantala / Piano
Produced by Siggi Loch