2009 - Texicalli Records: TEXCD094
http://www.texicallirecords.com/
2011 - ACT Music + Vision GmbH & Co. KG: ACT 9027-2
http://www.actmusic.com/Kuenstler/Verneri-Pohjola/Aurora
http://www.actmusic.com/Kuenstler/Verneri-Pohjola/Aurora/Aurora-CD
* Verneri Pohjola : trumpet
* Juhani Aaltonen : flute
* Pepa Päivinen : alto flute, bass clarinet
* Ilmari Pohjola : trombone
* Aki Rissanen : piano
* Pekka Pohjola : bass
* Antti Lötjönen : bass
* Ville Herrala : bass
* Joonas Riippa : drums
* Mika Kallio : drums
* Olavi Louhivuori : drums
* Antti Tikkanen : violin
* Minna Pensola : violin
* Atte Kilpeläinen : viola
* Thomas Djupsjöbacka : cello
http://www.verneripohjola.com/
Recorded by Mikko Raita at Finnvox.
Mixed by Mikko Raita at Studio Kekkonen.
Mastered by Svante Forsbläck at Chartmakers.
Reviews
By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/17/verneri-pohjola-aurora-cd-review
Trumpeter and composer Verneri Pohjola has been a star in his native Finland
since the early noughties, and this affecting and atmospheric big-band session
was released there two years ago and subsequently adopted by German label
ACT. Pohjola is a Miles Davis fan, and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is
included here – not in the Davis and Gil Evans Sketches of Spain version, but
as an equally hypnotic trumpet and bass duet. The whole remarkable venture
combines memorable original themes with striking ensemble-writing for horns and
strings, dramatic brass and percussion sounds, and a faintly disconsolate
beauty that nonetheless avoids all the usual north-European, windswept-jazz
cliches. Pohjola's vocalised brass sound shares some of Arve Henriksen's
breathiness, but the dissolution of that into edgier wailing and percussion
ferocity on the opening Akvavit previews the kind of bold contrasts that
surface all through the set. Occasionally, the music grooves brightly (as on
the skipping Colossus), a melancholy string quartet drifts gently into spacey
percussion tinkles, or Juhani Aaltonen's flawless flute sound conjures a trance
with Pohjola's trumpet, as on the reflective Spirit of S. ACT's adoption of Pohjola
might well bring him the international reputation his work entitles him to.
--
By Bruce Lindsay
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/aurora-act-music-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php
Lubomír Dorůžka (cz)
http://www.casopisharmonie.cz/recenze/verneri-pohjola-aurora.html
Mikko Lamberg (fi)
http://www.desibeli.net/arvostelu/3973
Leif Wigh (se)
http://orkesterjournalen.com/wordpress/?p=2363
Peter Füssl (de)
http://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/cd-tipp/verneri-pohjola-aurora
Par Olivier Acosta (fr)
http://www.citizenjazz.com/Verneri-Pohjola.html
Por Carlos Pérez Cruz (es)
http://www.elclubdejazz.com/discos/verneri_pohjola_aurora.html
