FMQ 3/2007

Finnish experimental music has its roots in the early 1960s and the composers and musicians then in their youth. It has since acquired numerous manifestations, from aleatory, free improvisation and sonic art to avant-punk and psychedelic forest-folk.

Jukka Tiensuu has, like the music he composes, always defied classification in a single category. The most fitting words to describe him might be "a universal musician" or "the best-kept secret in Finnish music". Hence Tiensuu, if anyone, is the person par excellence to open the discussion about Finnish avant-garde today.