Unea

The new record of Finnish guitarist Timo Kämäräinen, "Unea", is now in record shops in Finland. The record is also available at least from the following webshops: platta.net, www.cdon.com, www.freerecordshop.fi, www.levykauppax.fi, www.aironmusiikki.fi.

About Unea: 

4/5 stars. Soundi 3/04, Petri Silas.

"Young guitarist plays and composes excellently without succumbing to artificial tricks. Extra points have to be given to electric arrangements and to accompanying musicians." Satakunnan Kansa, Ilari Tapio. 

"Many young players will listen to this record with guitars on their laps trying to figure it out where on Earth Timo invents all those things." 4/5 stars. Savon Sanomat, Risto Löf. 

"Elegant playing and elegant music." 3/5 stars. 
Rytmi 4 /05, Timo Vähäsilta. 

"...Timo Kämäräinen is an excellently fabulous, virtuosic and versatile guitarist. Now Kämäräinen is also a brilliant composer since this record greatly points out his skills.", Jazzrytmit 2/05, Osku Rajala.

Finnish guitarist Timo Kämäräinen composed his dreams

Timo's first soloalbum "Unea" was released in March, 2005. On Unea Timo has composed his dreams, which are quite colourful by the way. In his dreams there are cartoon characters, a mysterious flowergirl and sometimes he is in a spaceship with a band going to a gig to another galaxy. Timo has been writing his dreams down for 10 years now. In most of his dreams he also hears the music and after waking up he writes it on notes. All the songs on Unea have either been heard in a dream or Timo has composed them after waking up according to the feeling he had in a dream.   

The musical genre of Unea-record is, according to Timo, "scandinavian cinematographical rockjazz". Some influences to the music might be found from classical jazz-albums such as Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.         

Also a theater piece "Eläviä kuvia" has been created based on Unea-music. The piece was showed in theaters in Helsinki in March 2005.       

The following talented Finnish musicians play on the record: Jukka Eskola, Olli Haavisto, Arttu Takalo, Timo Hirvonen, Mikko Kaakkuriniemi, Pentti Lahti, Eeppi Ursin, Anssi Växby, Mikko Helevä, Joonas Riippa ja Ilmari Pohjola.