Tämä sivu on vain englanninkielisenä! Buy this record from Ostinato! Osta tämä levy Ostinatosta! Uusinta at the edge of time UUCD101 Price/Hinta 15€ Uusinta's first ever ensemble album at the edge of time was released on 17th of January 2004. The album contains almost 75 minutes of some most adventurous music ever recorded. The eight composers that feature on the record are: Osmo Tapio Räihälä Riikka Talvitie Lauri Toivio Hannu Pohjannoro Lotta Wennäkoski Max Savikangas Kimmo Leppälä Sebastian Fagerlund The following compositions made their way to the record: Damballa Korunkaarros Next Deposit the edge of time Heartmonth Milk Oboe Quartet I Imaginary Landscapes Damballa (Osmo Tapio Räihälä) Listen to a sound clip! Lauri Toivio, flute, Riikka Talvitie, oboe, Kimmo Leppälä, clarinet, Maria Puusaari, violin Damballa was specially written for the Uusinta players Lauri Toivio, Riikka Talvitie, Kimmo Leppälä and Maria Puusaari in 2000. It was heard for the first time at Viitasaari's Time of Music Festival in July 2000 and was immediately well received. This piece lasts just under eight minutes and the oboe has a notable role, although it features only after more than two minutes has passed. Damballa was performed three times during the Musica nova festival in Helsinki in March 2003 and received rave reviews in the press. It has become something of a tour de force of the composer. Damballa was even heard in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, in June 2002, and in Rottenburg, Germany in April 2005. Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Recorded on the 19th of May 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. Korunkaarros (Riikka Talvitie) Roi Ruottinen, cello, Jerry Jantunen, piano Listen to a sound clip! Riikka Talvitie wrote Korunkaarros in 1999 and dedicated it to the cellist Martti Rousi. It is a study on the possibilities of a duo. The name refers to ornaments and it is possible to follow the first ornament of the cello and how it reappears on the "surface" of the music here and there. Roi Ruottinen with the cello and Jerry Jantunen, piano, form an impressive pair who know this piece inside out. Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Recorded on the 1st of April 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. Next Deposit (Lauri Toivio) Lauri Toivio, flute, Maria Puusaari, violin, Reeta Maalismaa, violin, Max Savikangas, viola, Markus Hohti, cello Listen to a sound clip! Lauri Toivio likes to write music for his own instrument, the flute, although he says that his own abilities in playing the flute set limits on how technically difficult music he can write. Well, anyone who has heard him play will know that the man really has the ability... Toivio's music is often full of expression and frenzy. In Next Deposit, finished hastily in the autumn of 2000, there are also calm moments, like the flute cadenza in the middle section. However, even there the piece goes forward and when it finally stops, you can surely hear it! Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Recorded on the 12th of November 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. the edge of time (Hannu Pohjannoro) Eva Ollikainen, conductor, Lauri Toivio, flute, Riikka Talvitie, oboe, Kimmo Leppälä, clarinet, Otto Virtanen, bassoon, Reeta Rossi, french horn, Maria Puusaari, violin, Reeta Maalismaa, violin, Mauri Kuokkanen, viola, Seeli Toivio, cello, Juho Martikainen, double bass Listen to a sound clip! the edge of time (notice that Pohjannoro does not use capitals in his titles) was written especially for Uusinta and premièred by the group in June 2003. Pohjannoro paints a seven and half minutes lasting 'stilleben', which becomes a mosaic-like with its pauses and silent sharpness. Combinations of intervals gradually either grow or get smaller, the rhythmic chains get either sharper or softer. Pohjannoro's piece is full of richly chased details. Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Live recording on the 2nd of June 2003 in Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki. Heartmonth (Lotta Wennäkoski) Roi Ruottinen, cello, Jerry Jantunen, piano Listen to a sound clip! Heartmonth was the name the ancient Finns gave to the midwinter months - there were actually two of them, covering a period from Christmas to about February 20. The title of the cello-piano duo refers to the intimate atmosphere and to the time of year when Wennäkoski wrote it. The work was written for Roi Ruottinen and Jerry Jantunen, who gave it its first performance in 2000 in the Musica nova festival in Helsinki. Heartmonth is a warm-hearted combination of sharp, pitched sounds and various noise-like effects. Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Recorded on the 1st of April 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. Milk (Max Savikangas/Teemu Mäki) Lauri Toivio, reciter, Maria Puusaari, violin, Reeta Maalismaa, violin, Max Savikangas, viola, Markus Hohti, cello Listen to a sound clip! The artist Teemu Mäki doesn't hide his disgust at the greed of a Western man, although he uses a lot of irony in his manifest-like monologue. Milk was the name of his video art work; at the end of the video the text is read while a female head in an aquarium is slowly covered in milk. This scene inspired Max Savikangas, an experimenter and an explorer of sound par excellence, to write a melodrama for a string quartet and a reciter. The string quartet creates atmospheres that are both distressed and suddenly coolly conclusive. In the middle section Savikangas lets loose his viola, playing a short cadenza that is freshly improvisatory, even though it is strictly notated. The piece was written and premièred in 1999. Recording engineer: Pekka Mikael Laine. Live recording on the 10th of November in the Sipoo Chapel of Light. Oboe Quartet 1 (Kimmo Leppälä) Riikka Talvitie, oboe, Kimmo Leppälä, bass clarinet, Maria Puusaari, violin, Max Savikangas, viola Listen to a sound clip! Kimmo Leppälä's Oboe Quartet 1 is the oldest of this album's compositions, as it was written already in 1987. The piece is in four movements of which the first is a lengthy oboe solo, played lyrically by Riikka Talvitie. The violin and viola start discussing with the oboe in and even the bass clarinet joins them after a while. The more hectic third movement starts abruptly. The last movement is again like a poem and in fact there is a dadaist poem in the end, where we hear Max Savikangas say "juna menee" ("a train leaves"). Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Recorded on the 10th of August 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. Imaginary Landscapes (Sebastian Fagerlund) Eva Ollikainen, conductor, Lauri Toivio, flute, Riikka Talvitie, oboe, Kimmo Leppälä, clarinet, Emil Holmström, piano, Maria Puusaari, violin, Reeta Maalismaa, violin, Mauri Kuokkanen, viola, Seeli Toivio, cello, Juho Martikainen, double bass Listen to a sound clip! Sebastian Fagerlund's Imaginary Landscapes was commissioned by Uusinta. This piece was heard for the first time in June 2002 and received quickly numerous further performances. Just listen to the work and you will know why! The oppression and agony, so often the main driving power in new music, is nowhere to be seen. Musicians like to play and listeners love to hear this kind of lightness, if only even for a change. The slow start soon gives way to more mobile music and even a clear pulse appears at one stage. The music becomes slower and grows into a delightful glow, before vanishing away. Recording engineer: Kai Lassfolk. Live recording on the 1st of June 2003 in the Sipoo New Church. Copyright 2000-04 Uusinta Publishing Company Ltd.