Rauhan Orkesteri's lyrics & chords

If naming a free jazz group Peace Orchestra (Rauhan Orkesteri in Finnish) seems like a contradiction, it should; free jazz has always reveled in contradiction. Rauhan Orkesteri hails from Turku, a university city on the southwest coast of Finland. The quartet is the Brothers Tolvi (Antti on reeds and Jaakko on percussion), Tero Kemppainen on bass and Ville Jolanki also on reeds, and their aesthetic is very DIY, working within the underground, outside of the conservatory jazz scene. Rauhan Orkesteri puts the freedom back in free jazz. Full of br...read more