Viikonloppu

Weekend. That's very right.

Yesterday Sini and I went to a concert - Otra Vez in Suolahtisali, Finland. Wow!! I've heard the quintet for a few times - LIVE! But again the Ensemble surprised me. ( And that is wonderful...) "Them" musicians are very talented, the music itself is very demanding and they play it the most skillfully. And that's why - the Wow!! The music they play is the TANGO! The years I've known them they've played mostly Astor Piazzolla's music. But as the years've gone by they've composed more and more music of their own... That is very good. The Otra Vez's musicians are very good improvisers. The complexity of the composed material with mixing of it with the the improvised fragments was quite wonderful. Thank you very much. For the second part of the concert some thirteen string players were added. The music was slightly more relaxed and yet very enjoyable!

In music I've always liked beautiful complexity - and sometimes even simplicity... like the blues. The Blues is a hard way to combine musically quite simple things with profound depth...

Juha H.