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"Tomi Nikku manages to blend the sonorities of post-modern jazz with neo-romantic harmony and counterpoint. The result is a mixture that is able to stand sonically on its own."

"The sound of Riikka Keränen combines elements of post-bop jazz with tonalities and sensibilities of a more pop-oriented approach."

"UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra maintains its track record of working with the right people on the right music for the right time."

"One instantly gets the concept when a tango album begins with the sound of an Indian tambura drone!"

"The music can smoulder for lengthy passages but the flame eventually burns bright."

"If you are interested in the 'progressive' varieties of Finnish popular music and do not read Finnish, this is the book for you."

Jean Sibelius Works is compiling a critical edition of the complete works of Sibelius, based on a variety of archival sources. The study is building a fascinating picture of the composer’s creative process while also challenging the traditional notion of what is a ‘work’.

Heikki Uimonen does not have a favourite sound. As an ethnomusicologist and a sound scholar, he is interested in all sounds. The more disturbing the better.

"Let us accept as a starting point that one can be a musicologist if one has been trained as a musician and as a scholar. Failing to meet either of these two criteria removes the foundation from talking about music," writes musicologist, Professor Eero Tarasti in his FMQ column.