Artist description The band is an imaginary band it does not really exist. The recordings are made sporadically.The Band is Tappi alias Tapani Suomela - a 55 years old gag who plays Bb-tuba in a Brass Band.Tappi makes compositions too!That You will hear mostly on these recordings.Nowadays recordings are made on a PC with Voyetras Digital orchestrator Pro and many other programm like Cool Edit etc.The synthesizer is Alesis quadrasynth.

Music Style archaic, ambience, ethinc jazz and modern classical

Musical Influences J.S. Bach, J. Sibelius, T. Monk, J. Coltrane, M. Davis, Gil Evans, G. Mahler, A.Schönberg , D. Brubeck, Art Blakey, Kaija Saariaho etc etc

Similar Artists I am the cutting edge .

Artist History First recording with a brass quartet was made in 1976.At that time everything was first made on notes and then played. In 1987 (?) Tappi bougth an Atari St 1000 and Steinberg 24 sequencer programm. That was together with a Korg 707 a revolution! What good music was made with that constellation ?

Group Members Friends are many, some still alive some dead. Can not tell them all - Too many and too few .

Instruments Alesis quadrasynth and 475 MHz AMD K6/2 with Turtle beach's Montego2 + other devices as noise gates and sound processors, two DAT recorders and one old 4-track tape recorder.

Albums Faith and Belief (1987-88),Gathering - Kokoontuminen (1992), Way (1994), Sekunda Neekeri (1995-6), Reductio ad Absurdum (1998), Kampiin Takaisin - Back to Kamp (1999)

Additional Info I have made most of my compositions for mp3 but there are some recordings left out

Location Turku, Finland - Finland

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