Pekka Pohjola: Pewit / cdRoots

cd cover Pekka Pohjola
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Pekka Pohjola (born 1952) is one of the greatest electric bass players in Europe. He studied classical piano and violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, all the while allowing his natural instincts to lead him to a career in rock 'n' roll. After a stint with The Boys, a pioneering group often compared to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Pekka joined Wigwam in 1970, staying for four glorious years. Wigwam was one of the most influential Finnish bands in the Seventies, and apart from being quite succesful in Scandinavia they later became a cult band in England even before being signed by Virgin Records.

This 1997 work (his latest, with a new one finally due later in 2001) displays powerful prog-rock influences while remaining dynamically and melodically miles above anything in that genre. Pohjola is a strong composer and arranger, and this is one of his best works.

The transcendent electric bassist from Finland has been making records for two plus decades now and this 1997 release shows how good he has gotten at it. ... The album's sound is big and forward overall but not without a little shadow and space. These pieces are not excuses to perform solos like so much fusion and progrock, they exist as illustrations of visual/emotional ideas and suggest a masculine music grown up, injected with delicate moments, into elderly substance. - Steve Taylor (Hollow Ear)

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