Pekka Pehjola

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Anyone know where I can get some of his stuff?

― Esquire1983 (esquire1983), Thursday, 13 February 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

just in case: his last name's Pohjola -- type it in with the 'o', and you'll probbly find sth on the web 8-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 13 February 2003 05:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i just saw one of his records used in a store the other day (or was it Jukka Tolonen's?). i listened to it and it sounded nice. not groundbreaking, but good electric jazz. i wanted to pick it up because i figured i'd probably never see it again, but for two things: i don't make as much money as i used to, and timing. i'm just not really into jazz right now. 6months ago i would have jumped on it. oh well, maybe it'll still be there when i get back into jazz.

didn't dj shadow sample him?

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

four & a 1/2 years later i still don't know whether dj shadow sampled him or not. but. i bought a pohjola cd today (out of at least a hlaf-dozen cheap-priced ones i saw in my hometown's record shops). it's titled everyman, is from 1983, has lotsa synths on it.
listening to it a second time i now start to wonder whether i should've picked a different one...

there's no other thread on pohjola on ilm eiher, is there?

― t**t, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Never heard of him before, but I am madly in love with the track Lindstrom put on his LateNightTales comp. Looks like I'm going to have to find more now...

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should have picked a different artist.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

the record i saw in the shop way back when was actually a Jukka Tolonen record, but another shop in berkeley has maybe 5 of his records, all for $20+. he definitely was sampled by DJ Shadow. i downloaded the album it was on and it was sort of happy go lucky finish folky jazz. besides the sampled song, i wasn't really feeling it and never bought any of the albums.

B the Magpie: (Virgin 1974)
* "Sekoilu Seestyy"
DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"

― jaxon, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should have picked a different artist.

Hi there, Rockist-O! Er, if yours was a comment on my post -- I did actually pick several other artists as well. (Pohjola ain't too unfamiliar to me anyway, I've seen him live as well:)

― t**t, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

He was in Tasavalen Presidenti (sp?) wasn't he? I have one of theirs and 2 Tolonens. I cracked out the TP a couple years ago and was surprised how much of it I remembered from my 70s prog years. It still holds up musically but the lyrics are kind of an afterthought.

― nickn, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Tolonen was in Tasavallan Presidentti, yes. And although Pohjola and Tolonen have played together, I don't think Pohjola was a permanent part of TP's line-up. (In TP there was another Pekka, tho -- flautist & saxophonist Pekka Pöyry. (Pohjola did play in Wigwam for awhile, however.))

― t**t, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

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