Jalousie is the “long-awaited” second Kehro album.
“We are even more amazed at this achievement than we were two years ago when our first album was released. The “difficult second album”, something that would be better for many bands never to even attempt”, says Markku ”Kaustinen” Kyyhkynen, bass player of Kehro.
Just like their debut album Urdiala, Jalousie is a melting pot of acoustic lounge psychedelia, Latin and Afro grooves packed in the form of highly original musical adventure.
Employing more or less hidden ethno melodies and acoustic downtempo sounds, the album’s soundscape is based on experiences garnered from gigs at garden parties, dinner parties, cocktail parties and family celebrations.
Name of the album is borrowed from a dance band which three local lads from Kehro village founded in the late 1950s. The inspiration for the name came from Jacob Gade’s Jalousie, Tango Tsigane, which by then was already an evergreen.
The music of Kehro is as eclectic and broad-minded as the ensemble itself. Vesa Kaartinen started his musical career in the obscure agricultural psychedelic group Mummi Kutoo. Markku Kyyhkynen played in the band Sata Lasta, winning the Finnish Championship in Rock Music – as well as in the weird alternative pop group Inkvisitio. Ville Toikka has several local rock groups under his belt.
Marko Timonen is one of the most employed jazz/folk/rock percussionists in Finland, while Kalle Outila is a young musical multi-tasker playing swing as well as slide, etc. Mikko Helenius is one of the leading bandoneon virtuosos in Finland, as well as Hannu Saha is considered a master virtuoso kantele player. Jari Sikander once even won a recorder championship.
Jalousie procucer Samuli Laiho was awarded the Folk Music Creator of the Year award at Etnogala 2019 for producing the latest album of the group Solju. He’s been playing in the rock groups Hearthill, Soul Tattoo and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, etc. He has also written Number 1 hits for several pop stars and written music for theatres.. Janne Oinas is the man behind the sound and atmosphere in hundreds of pop hits in Finland.
