Keijo & Jarmo

"Finnish artists Keijo & Jarmo sing the most stripped down suicidal traditional blues and folk on Talkin Bout Death Past Gone. I really wonder what inspired this harmonica induced primitive Americana folk in Tampere."

Keijo & Jarmo - talkin bout death past gone (2010)

"We were not tired, but we were cold. We sat on a campfire and started to sing. There was someone at our home who had forgotten us. There was nothing left for us. Some black man sat by us. Or was it a woman? It opened its mouth and did not have any teeth. The song was cold, the song was warm. We were not afraid anymore."

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Keijo - Songs of Luck (2009)

Keijo's songs draw from country-blues sources, as is often the case with his releases.

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Keijo - Neverending Blues (2008)

"According to Indian mythology everything was born and will be born with vibration, sound. What Western civilization calls music, is narrow, nothing but strictly controlled thread in that vibrating area. Other kind of threads have been mastered elsewhere. Inevitably these threads will also face each other and become one. Basic note chimes in blues, raga and mantra. I dreamt of musics and players who can modulate with music, no matter which cultural background they come from – I felt I understood something about the sounds I sometimes heard in the evening just before falling into sleep and in the morning when I woke up."

Keijo Virtanen

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