The nominees of the prestigious Nordic Council Prize, The Daughters of the Wolf (Ulvens döttrar) continue their musical peregrinations through folk-tales from Åland ["Awe-lund"] Islands with their second release, "Blue Draught", containing original folk compositions. The album is a follow-up to the highly successful 2004 release, "Saga", also released on Blue Music Group. The three sisters have performed together since childhood with their exotic Nordic vocal sound self-accompanied by fl

One Hundred One compositions by Mika Pohjola is one of most important musical statements to-date by the Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one of fifty "most influential pianists since 1990", by Jazz, a 700-page book on jazz history, authored by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux. Pohjola has recorded a majority of his compositions with his own ensembles, featuring his contemporaries on the jazz scene, saxophonists Miguel Zenon,