Well, I’ve now said my farewells in Helsinki. It was really hard to leave, I think we’d managed to build a really strong community both as friends and musicians in our short time together. I have no doubt we’ll be staying in touch and our paths will be crossing many times in the future! Much love to everyone!!!

We did however manage to do a few days recording with various groups before the end of term.

Firstly, Andreae/Tikkanen/Meier had a full day recording in Finnvox Studio last Friday. It was a really fantastic place to record and I think we got down some good tracks, even though it was the morning after the Beats & Pieces gig……. enough said. Also, big thanks to Markus for making the recording process so easy. The next day we went in to one of the studios in the Sibelius Academy with David, Mette, Kalle and Eero and recorded in various different formats (duo/trio/quartet/quintet). Another fruitful session, after a morning fraught with technical difficulties (our friend Jimmy was recording and worked some magic to make the thing happen, thanks), we got down to business like the professionals that we are ;-) We had a handful of compositions we wanted to record and then did a string of improvisations. If it all sounds as good as it felt to record it we may have a release in the pipeline so watch this space!