Timo Alakotila enjoys an illustrious career in Finland and worldwide as musician/performer (piano, harmonium), composer, arranger and producer with countless artists in the fields of folk music, classical, contemporary, chamber
music, jazz, big band, opera, ballet, choral music, pop music and more. He has been a member of bands JPP, Maria Kalaniemi Aldargaz, Troka, UNTO Tango Orchestra and has produced and arranged for artists such as Tsuumi, SIBA
Folk Big Band, Johanna Juhola, Pekka Kuusisto, Rajaton, Meta 4, Catriona McDonald, Karen Tweed, BBC Concert Orchestra, UMO Big Band, Panu Savolainen to name a few. His music, performances and works have appeared on over two-hundred fifty albums.
Tokyo based accordionist / composer Yuka Fujino has had a diverse and varied career for over thirty years releasing solo works and albums with artists/ensembles such as Oofujitsubo, Akihisa Tsuboy, Bellow Bears, Riquisimo, Invisible Garden and Jabara Sisters. She has participated in numerous Japanese game productions and recordings for a wide variety of artists in various fields such as film, commercials, radio and theater. Yuka has also performed in projects of renowned game music composer Yasunori Mitsuda including the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert – The Beginning and the End and Chrono Cross 20th Anniversary Live Tour 2019 Radical Dreamers.
Timo and Yuka met in Tokyo in 2022 and began discussions about collaboration based on mutually aligned attitudes towards the art of composition. Demos were shared online during early 2023 followed by rehearsals, concerts and recordings in Finland in summer 2023. The duo album Seiras (rough meaning: Blue Wind or Dream of the Blue Wind) features compositions by both artists and is released in Finland and Japan in January 2024 by Åkerö Records. A
