Bullhorn Verneri Pohjola & Johan Lindström

• 1 Another Day 05:53
• 2 Girls of Costa Rica 09:01
• 3 He Sleeps, I Keep Watch 05:33
• 4 Bullhorn 07:28
• 5 In La Borie 06:22
• 6 This One Is For You 02:28
• 7 Nanomachines 06:36
• 8 Ouroboros 06:29
• 9 Cold Blooded 05:16
• 10 The End Is Nigh 07:44
• Total Runtime 01:02:50

Info for Bullhorn

Bullhorn is the new album by Finnish trumpeter/composer, Verneri Pohjola, his third as leader. Based in Helsinki, the thirty-six year old has been in the international spotlight for the past few years and is acknowledged as a jazz star in the making. His distinctive tone, with its deeply affecting purity and lyricism, and highly melodic improvising is embedded in self-penned compositions marked by memorable and imaginative themes that steer clear of any hackneyed notion of ‘Nordic’ jazz.

Bullhorn is a key album in Pohjola’s career, marking the shift from a rising start to an artist of real substance with a powerful, unique sound and a sense of deepening maturity and clarity of vision. Bullhorn is the album that finally realises Verneri’s enormous creative potential.

Featuring his long term associates and friends: pianist Aki Rissanen, bassist Antti Lötjönen and drummer Teppo Mäkynen, Bullhorn undertakes a panoramic overview of Verneri’s wide-ranging, evocative yet energetic approach to music-making, anchored in his strong, personal sound. As Pohjola explains: ‘It has the intimate sounds and lyricism in improvised passages that I love, but also the rough energy and emphasis on the compositions – everything I want to express in my music’.

In addition, Pohjola has set out on Bullhorn to capture the joy and spontaneity that occur in performance between these four like-minded individuals; the vital element of music making and ‘jazz’ that makes each performance a unique and personal statement.

A truly progressive artist with a firm understanding of popular culture providing the foundation of his art, Verneri Pohjola is on the brink of becoming one of the most exciting and original musicians of his generation. In fact, he’s almost ready to blow his own bullhorn.

“This album takes its place among the truly finest albums of recent times.” (Jazzwise)

“This is a beautifully executed, and quietly surprise-packed set” (The Guardian)

“While Pohjola’s 2011 album, Aurora, on the ACT label was a bit of a favourite of mine, this feels a lot more focussed and an even bigger step up in the jazz league.” (The Jazz Breakfast)

Verneri Pohjola, trumpet
Aki Rissanen, piano
Antti Lötjönen, bass
Teppo Mäkynen, drums
Additional musicians:
Jussi Kannaste, tenor saxophone
Ilmari Pohjola, trombone
Iida Laibe, cello

Recorded and mixed by Mikko Raita at Petrax Studios, Hollola, Finland between 26th and 28th August 2014
Mixed by Mikko Raita at Studio Kekkonen, Helsinki, Finland between 29th September and 1st October 2014
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West, Espoo, Finland on 13th October 2014

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This album contains no booklet.