“My three guitar compositions were born out of improvisations, aided by open tunings and so on, which led me to find new chord harmonies and melodic
progressions. The songs’ structures, themes and solos took on their final form in the recording phase. At times I also used scat singing to support the solo
guitar. The two shorter compositions are based on chord harmonies and progressions played on keyboards, which inspired the guitar improvisations played over them.”
Radio session 22-23 May 1990, Yle studio M1
Pekka Nylund: 6- and 12 –steel stringed guitars, classical guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
Booklet in pdf format, 5 tracks in wav and mp3 format.
Guitarist Pekka Nylund, whose career began in the 1970s, is known for playing in many jazz, rock and world music/ethnomusic groups such as Piirpauke,
Sahti, Los Ustads, Pohjantahti, Hot Bullets, Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band, Suhkan Uhka, Grupo Choramba, Wigwam Revisited, IstuJaPala, Nefes,
Groovy Eldorado and Lekkujad. He has also performed with the likes of Okay Temiz (percussion), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Minni Ilmonen (koto) and actor
Markku Toikka (stand up). He was also a pit musician for Helsinki City Theatre musicals (1996-2014) and a part-time guitar teacher in the folk music
department of the Sibelius Academy (1986-2010). Nylund’s compositions have been used in many dance and children’s theatre productions. Besides electric, steel-string and classical guitar, Nylund plays the banjo, mandolin, oud, cümbüş, Greek bouzouki, Portuguese guitar and keyboards.