Jazz Finland Live

Mikko Hassinen Future Food Factory will perform on the Finnish Jazz Federation tour in Kotka, Kuopio, Oulu, Savonlinna, and Jyväskylä. The program features music from the ensemble’s debut album, reflecting the complex relationship with nature of award-winning percussionist and composer Mikko Hassinen.

Percussionist and composer Mikko Hassinen has returned to small ensemble music, inspired by his youthful and highly skilled band. The broad and layered wind orchestration of his earlier compositional work, the Espoo Big Band album Blood Red, transforms on the Future Food Factory debut into an intimate and focused interplay of a small collective, where acoustic jazz is infused with an electric layer.

To mark the Jazz Federation tour, Flame Jazz Records will release Hassinen’s new Future Food Factory solo album Anemoia on April 10. The material was created entirely in Hassinen’s home studio. The album centers on the concept of anemoia, a nostalgia for something never experienced.