Kama Kollektiv Toivo (2021)

SYNDONE, as a reminder to the holy relic of Turin, is the Italian group releasing their 8th album, starting in 1992 their musical adventure for an energetic jazz-sympho-prog-rock trip, starting on ELP, QUEEN, AREKNAMES; cosmic hard rock, vintage moog and hammond, Nick has worked on pub jingles before and sets a symphonic tone based on keyboards, an album title about the Love of Life and its governing forces. A particularity, that of associating classical and opera with rock like QUEEN in its symphonic and baroque version, crazy and controversial…

Since their return to the business in 2010 with "Melapesante", the Italians of Syndone have not stopped producing albums, each one more interesting than the other. So it's with an undisguised pleasure that we are given to discover their work entitled "Kama Sutra".
If the title of this new album suggests that Syndone will deliver this time precious advice on the different ways to reach sexual pleasure, the subject is deeper than it seems, as Riccardo Ruggieri reveals: "For Syndone, (Kama Sutra) becomes a pretext to evoke the love between two people, the reality of today's prostitutes, the provocation, the images, the symbols, the role-playing and the people…

On this new Alba album the young and talented Janne Oksanen takes over the entire piano output of Toivo Kuula. To this day Toivo Kuula (1883-1918) stands as one of the most significant Finnish composers. His music is poetic, epic and deep and it showcases a very sophisticated musical taste and tonal language. In his lifetime he was hailed as Finland’s finest composer after Sibelius, who was his mentor and friend. As a whole these 20 pieces portray a versatile palette of different stages of Kuula the composer, from teenage sketches (Air varié) to impressionistic frames from Paris (Satukuva no 2).