Jori Hulkkonen "Dualizm" album release party!
April b-eat-z with Jori Hulkkonen focuses on the release of Jii Hoo's latest album release on F-Comm. "Dualizm" is the fifth album for this ex-Oulu based artist and it's a trademark Jori sound that shines through. In a long three-hour set Jori lets you in on the new material as well as stuff from his earlier releases.
DJ Ken-Guru will kick off the night with his own set.
Jori Hulkkonen (F-comm)
Jori Hulkkonen was born in the early 70's in a small Finnish town called Kemi. Jori found his aesthetics for escapism from the ever-so-imminent nuclear war in the early and mid 80's music; new wave, synthpop and new romantics mixed with some traditional Finnish pop and rock. All things synthetic, distant, dark, cold, gloomy, but yet beautiful seemed appealing, everything from Visage to the Cure, and Pet Shop Boys to John Foxx.
"I can still recall the first time I heard West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys on radio, and the sensation it gave me. Those chord changes in the intro and when that baseline comes in... magic. It was basically then I started seriously thinking about making electronic music."
After four albums and several remixes/collaborations 2005 sees Jori releasing his most adventurous record so far. Eventhough you still recognize his personal style & his 80's influences he has chosen to take his musical journey to a direction less expected, consciously trying to avoid the more usual and more familiar approaches in terms of structures and arrangements.
This new album features vocal contributions from such people as John Foxx (initial lead singer of Ultravox) , Tiga, José Gonzáles (Swedish award winning pop singer), Nick Triani (English singer based in Finland) and Jerry Valuri. Tiga, Jerry & Nick already collaborated on Jori's previous album "Different".
- First 12"-only "Science" is out now : 137.0218.130. Featuring remixes by Jesper Dahlback, Alexi Delano, Aril Brikha and Jori Hulkkonen. - Second 12"-only single "Lo-Fiction" comes with an amazing animated video (soon downloadable!)
Read more: http://www.jorihulkkonen.com/
Jori Hulkkonen "Dualizm" album release party
Date: 08.04.2005 Time: 22-04 Agelimit: 19 Place: 45 Special, Saaristonkatu 12 Tickets: 5 eur, 4 eur students