VITKASTE

Vitkaste biography
Group VITKASTE was formed in Helsinki year 2003 by Joonas HIETALA, Vesa MAKKONEN and Heikki KORHOLA. The early years were spent with intensive training, and the group had also some lesser active periods. During summer 2008 Joonas spent few weeks in countryside near river Lestinjoki, where a composition was born, later enlargened as a six-piece suite. A phase of this sonic entity was preserved to their debut record released January 2011, having many musician friends visiting on both the album and on the gigs.

Musically the group merges modern and traditional elements as electronic / acoustic tones, where composed sequences give space for improvisations, and the whole musical concept is constantly open for new openings and evolvement. This fusion concludes to quite organic sound, flowing naturally like a stream of a vivid river with electronic leanings. The group's collectivism is realized with their artist friends, who are loosely attached to the core trio. These collaboration relationships find their natural way by acting correctly in the constant flow of new events, and the music itself might be only an end result of experiences and reflections of this social level. This kind of philosophies lead to constant evolvement of art creation process and searching of new perceptions, having the world of dreams influencing powerfully to the group activity conducted in the waken world. In live concerts the performing could be merged to concepts of theatre; In addition of collaborations with performance artists, the larger musician collective of the band holds very strong capability of performing with various instruments, and thus the dramatic curve of a concert can be displayed on the stage with various approaches and visual enhancements. From these personal methods crystallizes another Finnish good quality underground band, pulsing with kind and sensitive vitality.


Eetu Pellonpää


Sources:
Official homepage
Interview of Joonas Hietala 8th Jan 2011

Vitkaste official website

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• Vitkaste - Pyramidilaulu (Pyramid Song, Radiohead cover)
  (8 min 53 sec )

  Added by Eetu Pellonpää

• Vitkaste - Kladens Ficál (live @ Kallio Kukkii 2010)
  (12 min 38 sec )

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