Nostalgia by Raoul Björkenheim & Juhani Aaltonen

Continuing the successful duo collaboration the spawned their previous album "Awakening" in 2018 two legends of the Finnish jazz scene release "Nostalgia".

Juhani Aaltonen is a living legend of Finnish jazz music, a true icon of free improvisation, whose soulful playing spans a respectable six decades. Known as a tenor saxophonist and flutist, Aaltonen, nicknamed Junnu, focuses on flutes in his collaboration with Raoul Björkenheim and creates a lyrical musical world with his friend. Björkenheim paints colorful sounds into their joint musical world with his 6-12 string double-neck electric guitar. Their ESP-style communication enables them to create new songs on the fly, which they utilize in their compositions.

Both Junnu and Raoul collaborated for years with another Finnish icon, Edward Vesala, whose music is distinguished by its unfettered originality, and they both feature prominently in Vesala's discography.

Raoul Björkenheim is one of the most prominent Finnish jazz guitarists. Born in Los Angeles, his musical career took him through New York for a long time and began in Finland in the early 1980s. During his career, Björkenheim has worked with many international and domestic top names, such as Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, William Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Hamid Drake, Ingebrigt Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love, Gerald Cleaver, Lukas Ligeti, Morgan Ågren, Edward Vesala, as well as ensembles such as Krakatau, Scorch Trio and Blixt, as well as eCsTaSy.