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The TAKAKENO festival can be surmised by acknowledging the synthesis of the new with the ancient: Using archaic instruments as a starting point for something cutting edge. It’s become somewhat of a trope in new music circles recently, and frankly I’m all for it.
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18.6.2026 | Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki
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What’s the deal with jazz and cats? One can go down quite a rabbit hole to discover why musicians in the jazz world call each other “cats”, in my interpretation it’s something to do with the skill of improvisation – or maybe adaptation to an environment – or something along those lines.
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Interbody is the sophomore release of Heli Hartikainen, following their extremely well received Chronovariations (September 2024). I’ll start this review with a question: Is the second step always harder than the first?
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Queuing with the same crowd to be seen in kompleksi to go inside the Helsinki Cathedral for a HMW event, I started to feel myself being placed into an aestheticisation of urban nightlife – a sanitised, costly and branded experience: “This is what it is to be a cool young adult in Helsinki!”
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To me, the Blowup evening at Tallinn Music Week 2026 felt less like a genre showcase and more like a way of thinking about music: intense, risky, atmospheric, and unwilling to settle into one category.
