by Jukka Eskola
"The Orquesta Bossa
project started actually with a live gig in January 2012 when I had a
chance to produce a concert for a line up with a quintet plus a string
quartet. The material was Jazz and Bossa standards, nothing unusual. The sound of the combo got stuck in my mind, I just loved the traditional Bossa
sound of the rhythmic section, combined with the front line horns and
the string quartet adding a little bit more modern angle to it. So I
decided to make more of the project and compose some original tunes and
make an album. I was lucky to get my good friend, drummer Teppo Mäkynen involved in the project as a co-writer and producer. He has such wide knowledge in all kinds of music, and being a Bossa
Nova enthusiastic, he was the one and only guy I could think of for
this project. So we made tunes that we thought would be, in a way
traditional Bossa Nova, but at the same time having some Scandinavian angle to it."
"We were not trying to sound like
authentic Brazilians, but just making music that we think sounds great
by using the traditional Bossa Nova sound as our guideline. The atmosphere is actually quite modal."
"I also asked a very talented arranger, Jussi Lampela, to help with the string arrangements which really play a big part on the album and the live band."
"The musicians on the album are the cream
of Finnish jazz players, and classical players when it comes to the
strings. The recording sessions were made in a very traditional way, all
9 musicians playing 100% live takes in the same small space. We used
old 50's and 60's tube microphones and recorded on an analog 8-track
tape recorder. "
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