Sininen viikonloppu

Studio Pasila
Premiere 25.2.2003
approx. 1 h 30 min
EUR 17

Note: No longer in repertoire!

Performers
Jonna Järnefelt (vocals)
Jukka Leppilampi (vocals, guitar)
Sami Koskela (percussion)
Composition Jukka Leppilampi
Lyrics Heimo Hatakka

Reviews

Lauluillan synty, 02/2003

Review

The birth of the song evening Six years ago, Jonna Järnefelt and Jukka Leppilampi performed the Gershwin classic I’ve got a crush on you at a mutual acquaintance’s wedding. The first meeting left such a warm memory that the collaboration continued in front of UMO in a concert dedicated to Frank Sinatra. The next time music came up was when Jonna agreed to hold a singing evening at the Art Goes Kapakka festival in the autumn of 1998. Jonna asked Jukka for new songs for her performance, and Jukka contacted his lyricist friend Heimo Hatakka. Hatakka was delighted with the offer of cooperation, as she had stories in mind that lacked a suitable performer. “I had in mind a charismatic singer in everyday life. I didn’t know Jonna before, but I had seen her sometime in the mid-1990s, when she headed to the local store with her firstborn in a stroller. I was sitting in a bar on the other side of the street, and I sensed something mundane and unpretentious in the figure of Jonna. That sight came back to me when Jukka contacted me,” Hatakka recalls.

Review

Margit Arvonen

From happiness to pain’ It shook my wrist, gave me goosebumps, lifted me up from the floor into the air. The voices of Jonna Järnefelt and Jukka Leppilampi sound well together. Its sound is punchy, simple, powerful. Leppilampi’s rhythmic music crept into my skin. The softness of Sami Koskela’s bongo drums is like a touch of the lips on the cheek, the set of bells, prisms and seashells like the flight of swallows in the sunshine. Those words of Heimo Hataka . Touching everyday poetry about what hurts. What is it to be sick of happiness and to come sober from grief? The trio’s singing evening has an everyday and unpretentious halo. The music is something between Bo Kaspers, Norah Jones and Agitprop . What was left was a good feeling and a strong hunger to hear more.

Comments

Loistava esitys! Arvoisat taiteilijat: levyttäkää, älkää edes miettikö. Teillä on valmis kokoelma, antakaa palaa. Tarvitsemme juuri tätä musiikkia teiltä! Elämänmakua; suolaa, sokeria, kyyneliä, naurua. Niin nautittavaa musiikkia. Kiitos.

Lokakuun loppusoitto biisin kerran kuulleena en malta odottaa päästä kuulemaan se uudelleen! Upeaa että tämmöinen ilta on tiedossa! Toivottavasti porukka iloksemme myös levyttää biisit ja saamme nauttia niistä jatkossakin.