Oulu Music Festival

SARĀB

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Born from the meeting between the franco-Syrian singer  Climène Zarkan and the guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis, SARĀB — mirage in Arabic –is a musical building that combines rock, contemporary jazz and arab traditional music which plays on borders and genres. The duo quickly turned into a six-headed creature, where each became indispensable to musical creation. Robinson Khoury’s trombone links with the voice, and navigates between the Eastern and European scales, between ornamentation and a personal technique. It is with the trombone and the song that we find the horizontality of the Arab music, upset by the rich harmonic verticality of the guitar and the piano. SARĀB is one of the most popular Band on the Parisian jazz scene.

JOONA TOIVANEN TRIO

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We Jazz record label will release Joona Toivanen Trio's new and highly anticipated album Both Only in the spring of 2022. The album is an ensemble created during a four-day studio session, where the songs, sounds and structures were created in the depths of an Gothenburg studio. Both on the record and live the band moves hypnotically in the world of jazz, cinematic music and ambient. The acoustic trio playing mixes with subtle electronic elements, and Both Only is a kind of new line drawing compared to the trio’s previous production. The trio arrives in Oulu as a part of their record release tour. Joona Toivanen Trio's previous album XX won the Teosto Award, and with the new album the trio boldly takes their expression in a new direction.