Jazz Finland Live

Secret gig. Ticket buyers will receive instructions about the meeting point.

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New York based artist Ka Baird travels to Helsinki for a one of a kind 5-day residency, which is set to yield unexpected new music each time – and different each time. Her first guest is Perussastamala, aka Mikael Saastamoinen.

Meeting point before the event at GLO Hotel lobby at 4:30pm.

“My goal, more than anything else, is just to find a sound in which I can lose myself: a place of catharsis where I can stop my thoughts, and be completely possessed by that moment. I want to be insanely present,” Baird says. Her live performances, in particular, have become increasingly visceral and hyperenergetic as she tries to tap into “ecstatic experience.” In concert, “sometimes my performances can be read as a ritual, or a possession.” – Ka Baird

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Tickets 45 €

Accomplished jazz guitarist Marc Ribot performs a live solo gig at G Livelab. During his over 40-year career Ribot has released 25 albums under his name and performed with various groups, exploring a vast range of music styles from free jazz and soul to noise rock. For his solo gig the audience is in for a wayward night full of enigmatic soundscapes and intricate improvisations.

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