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Check out our Facebook fan page

matti — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:22:17 +0000

Due to popular demand, we’ve finally put up a Facebook fan page. You can now “like” Ricky-Tick Records at facebook.com/rickytickrecords and stay tuned to all things RT.

The Five Corners Quintet “The Helsinki Sessions” – Recoded Live (RTCD021)

matti — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:36:59 +0000

The Five Corners Quintet “The Helsinki Sessions” (RTCD021) / 2010

By now everybody should know that there’s no quintet like The Five Corners Quintet. Teppo Mäkynen, Timo Lassy, Jukka Eskola, Mikael Jakobsson and Antti Lötjönen have truly upped the ante for a contemporary acoustic jazz band, and thank heavens we finally have them on tape live.

“The Helsinki Sessions” documents a live recording done at Helsinki’s Kapsäkki venue and it’s safe to say it shows the Quintet in top form. Oldies but goodies like ‘Trading Eights’ and ‘Unsquare Bossa’ sit comfortably next to “Hot Corner” tracks such as ‘Skinny Dipping’ and ‘Hot Rod’. It was minus way-too-many degrees outside as this was recorded, but as you all can hear now, inside the venue it was more like a sauna heating up. Sweet!

Vinyl version coming later on as well.

Pre-order Astro Can Caravan’s “Planet Caravan” & The Five Corners Quintet live album

matti — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:51:55 +0000

Here’s you’re chance to pre-order the upcoming Ricky-Tick releases from Levykauppa Äx. Click below for delivery for release date (for Finnish orders).

Astro Can Caravan: “Planet Caravan”

The Five Corners Quintet: “The Helsinki Sessions”

Jo Stance album preview clip at Vimeo

matti — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:10:54 +0000

The eagerly-awaited Jo Stance album is just around the corner (release: 13.10.2010 / release gig: 23.10.2010 at Club YK, Helsinki) and more info about that will follow soon. In the meantime, do check out the album preview clip at Vimeo, see below.

Jo Stance album preview clip from Ricky-Tick Records on Vimeo.

“Sketches of North” premieres on Finnish TV

matti — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:24:34 +0000

“Sketches of North” – A film about Jazz and Helsinki by Arto Tuohimaa
YLE Teema, 23.4. 19:00 & 25.4. 22:45 (GMT +2)

More info:
ohjelma.yle.fi/ohjelmat/631389 | www.sketchesofnorth.com

“Sketches of North”, a black & white film inspired by the music of “Agatha”, premieres on Finnish TV on Friday, April 23. “Agatha”, a big band album composed by Kerkko Koskinen and played by UMO Jazz Orchestra & trumpeter Verneri Pohjola. The album was released by Ricky-Tick Records in 2007.

Sketches of North glides through the heavy winter towards the intense summer and the serene, darkening autumn. The bombastic and epic music shakes hands with the manic-depressive beat of the northern capital. The audial landscape in Kerkko Koskinen’s music merges with the mind-flowing narration of the film, and together they catch the dreamlike, poetically swinging spirit of today’s Helsinki.

Povo DJ set at We Jazz 10.4.

matti — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:14:58 +0000

In order to celebrate the release of “The Yellow of the Sun in You”, Povo’s A-P Andreasen arrives in Helsinki to DJ at a club night called We Jazz. It all goes down at Helsinki’s Kuudes Linja this Saturday, April 10, starting at 22:00. Tickets are on sale now at the record shop Lifesaver. Hope to see you there!

We Jazz
Sat, April 10, 22-04
Kuudes Linja (Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki)
DJ A-P Andresen (Povo, DK)
We Jazz DJs Matti Nives & Timo Lassy
National RGB VJs
Jazz dance workshop 22:00
Tickets 8 eur (presale at Lifesaver, Pursimiehenkatu 3)

www.kuudeslinja.com

New Dalindèo interview clip up

matti — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:17:21 +0000

Our Vimeo channel has been updated with a new Dalindèo clip, which features main man Valtteri Pöyhönen chatting about their latest LP, “Soundtrack for the Sound Eye”. Go here.

The Five Corners Quintet to record a live album

matti — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:20:44 +0000

The Five Corners Quintet are set to record three of their performances at Helsinki’s Kapsäkki venue on February 11-13 2010 for a live album to be released on Ricky-Tick Records.

The Five Corners Quintet live band, active since 2004 are heading for a tour in Japan and China in late May, and the Japanese release of the upcoming live album will coincide with the tour. The recordings will be released in Finland and Europe in the fall of 2010. Upon completing the Asian tour, the quintet will take an undetermined break for touring after playing some 200 gigs over the past six years, touring extensively in Europe, Japan, and the US. The tickets for these exclusive concerts will go on sale at Tiketti on Wednesday, January 27.

The Helsinki concerts in February will see The Five Corners Quintet get back to their roots. Producer Tuomas Kallio will set up his recording studio in another room inside the venue, thus re-uniting the preducing and live sides of the project initally conveived of as a studio production by Kallio and jazz DJ Antti Eerikäinen, also the head of Ricky-Tick Records. An enormously successful yet originally unplanned offshoot of the studio production, The Five Corners Quintet live band includes Teppo Mäkynen on drums, Timo Lassy on sax, Jukka Eskola on trumpet, Mikael Jakobsson on piano, and Antti Lötjönen on double bass. The Kapsäkki venue will feature a traditional jazz club setting with seated audience of 150 per night.

The Five Corners Quintet Live Recording
Feb 11-13, 8 pm
Kapsäkki, Helsinki (Hämeentie 68)
Tickets: 24/22/19 eur (Sat/Fri/Thu), on sale Jan 27 9 pm at Tiketti

www.thefivecornersquintet.com
www.myspace.com/thefivecornersquintet