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Jarmo Saari Republic will perform for the first time a programme in which the music is built around famous recorded historical speeches. The band improvises music to accompany the speeches, creating a unique experience.
The speeches deal with freedom, peace, tolerance, solidarity, respect for nature, individual choices, sanctity, and activism. The concert highlights human rights, freedom of speech, and the importance of expression, and encourages reflection on the impact of one’s own actions on the world.
Founded in 2012, Jarmo Saari Republic is a musical experimental laboratory led by award-winning multi-instrumentalist Jarmo Saari and three top percussionists. The music combines hypnotic rhythmic textures, soundscapes, live looping, and improvisation.
The band has released two albums and organised carnevalistic concerts in Finland and abroad.
Saari is known for his visual compositional style and multi-layered sounds. In addition to guitar, vocals, and percussion, the festival stage will feature the eerie theremin, which is played without physical contact in the vicinity of two antennas.
The historical speeches make up the Freedom Speeches concert adress freedom, peace, acceptance, solidarity, respect for nature, individual choices, sanctity, and activism. The concert encourages us to consider the impact and possibilities of our own actions, freedom of expression, human rights, freedom of speech and diversity as a source of richness, and the necessity of nature conservation. – Jarmo Saari
