Group: Group
Group: Group
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Group
Label: Svart Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 6430065581345
Genre: Jazz
Double vinyl LP pressing + 7". Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this Finnish jazz fusion band's only album, originally released on Finnlevy's prog rock imprint Hi-Hat in 1978. Highly influenced by Weather Report and the jazz fusion scene of the 70s, The Group was set up after Pekka Pohjola and Vesa Aaltonen came back to Finland from Sweden. They both played in the Swedish prog/jazz rock band Made in Sweden. As The Group's guitarist Seppo Tyni remembers, Aaltonen came back to Finland in early 1977 and Pohjola later in the summer. From the early 1977 Aaltonen and Tyni both played in Olli Ahvenlahti Quintet that for example performed at the Finnish Eurovision qualification (though they played as a quartet there). The quartet (Olli Ahvenlahti, Seppo Tyni, Vesa Aaltonen, Heikki "Häkä Virtanen) was the backing band for Markku Blomqvist who performed his song Liehuva liekinvarsi. "This band was very remarkable for me as I had just moved to Helsinki from Pori in 1976. I played in the Swedish Theatre for one season and it led me to meet other musicians of my age like Häkä Virtanen. Then I met Olli Ahvenlahti and Vesa Aaltonen. It was the first time I got to play with real professionals", Tyni remembers.
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