ELEMENTS OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC, ELECTRONICS AND JAZZ CREATE A WONDROUS AND MEDITATIVE SOUND WORLD ON ‘KOMOREBI’

Following their debut album ÆR on Fuga Libera in 2021, Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola announces their second album. Komorebi is scheduled for release on May 26th by Outhere Music. The project is a post-classical exploration of themes of fragility and loss, mixing elements of medieval and electronic music and jazz to create a wondrous and meditative sound world.

Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola combines the sounds of the human voice, piano and viola da gamba with electronic effects and medieval harp. The players have diverse backgrounds in early music, jazz, Finnish folk music and contemporary music, although it was medieval music that was the inspiration for their highly personal and recognisable sound.

Komorebi is an untranslatable Japanese word best described as “sunlight shining through tree leaves, capturing the interplay between light and leaves”. This trio composed of one Dutch and two Finnish musicians explores the fragility of nature and death, the fleeting nature of light seen through leaves, the poetry and vividness of nature as well as the loss of natural habitats.

The texts are original poetry from singer Aino Peltomaa, as well as precocious Finnish poet Saima Harmaja (1913–1937), Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), and from the Cantus Sororum (Songs of the Sisters), a collection of medieval Bridgettine chants. The trio is fascinated by how time is perceived and how these beautiful medieval melodies and texts speak to us now.

"It is rare that an album offers such an enchanting journey as Komorebi by Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola. With an unmistakable combination of classical minimalist music intertwined with influences from medieval music and Finnish poetry, this ensemble creates a sonic experience that transports you to another world."
Bart Debbaut / Hageland klassiek

"A series of sensations, creating a boundary between oneness, between the world and the metaphysics. And this is the album of the album of the trio. Easily digestible, full of emotions and peace."- Paweł Szczepanik/ Radio Krakow

"As if the music embraces you, shielded from the hyperactive outside world, you relax." "Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola brings a musical translation of the sunlight caressing the leaves."
- Helena Gaudeus / Klassiek centraal

"...the trio has its own unique sound, its own musical world and it succeeds to draw an unbelievably long line of the tradition of Western classical music and the heritage of improvisation together and into its own music.”
- Pentti Ronkanen / Suomijazz