Jazz Finland Live

PETER BRÖTZMANN & HEATHER LEIGH

Brötzmann emerged in the politically tumultuous late 1960s and caught attention with his large groups featuring Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink and more, blowing holes in the listener’s consciousness with recordings such as Machine Gun, Fuck De Boere and Nipples. Since then he’s been a major name in European free jazz across the decades, an incendiary live performer who’s appeared on over 100 albums and collaborated with an utter Who’s Who of improvised music from all sides of the globe.

Heather Leigh operates out of Glasgow via West Virginia and has similarly played and recorded with a kaleidoscope of alt-rock and improv luminaries, notably Charalambides, Scorces (a duo with Christina Carter), Dream Aktion Unit (with Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Matt Heyner), Annihilating Light (with Stefan Jaworzyn), Robbie Yeats (the Dead C), John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and many more. The List magazine describes her as a “Pedal steel guitar player from hell. Not for the faint-hearted.” Her new solo album on Editions Mego, I Abused Animal, is winning widespread acclaim and bringing an avalanche of new attention to Heather’s music and this duo brings something new and profoundly impactful from both Brötzmann and Leigh.

ARTTU PARTINEN & SAMI PEKKOLA

The music of Sami Pekkola (Mohel, Taco Bells) and Arttu Partinen (Amon Düde, Avarus) is in constant search of clarity through endless beginnings and a relentless swing created by way too many factors. The destination is found and lost again and again but eventually all the possible pieces find their places in the puzzle. Partinen has a rare ability to control randomness created with tapes and effect devices. It’s baffling how easily his sounds become one with the seemingly reckless saxophone playing of mister Pekkola. The first live appearance of this duet took place in Sheffield in December 2006 and now they celebrate their 10-year history.