It was a blast to play at Spot Festival! More exciting news coming soon! 🌏 

”Although highly original and astonishingly innovative, there’s also a quietly classical sense of respect and reverence to Sulkunen’s ambient masterpiece. I can touch and feel the echoes of nature’s elements re-emerging from a long distant past, living and breathing peacefully within the composer’s borderless music.”  Mike Gates. Ukvibe. Read the whole review herehttps://ukvibe.org/album_reviews/johanna-elina-sulkunen/

FIND IT HERE  https://orcd.co/xiicountingofdays  

✨ SINGLE 'XIV Terra' is OUT!! ✨

Find it on your favorite digital platform.

The draft of this piece was made already over 2 years ago. It has traveled through various stages from the first intuitive spark, meeting crossroads, and taking many turns. 

Originally the plan was to record the naked nature, ambiance, and sounds in Iceland's nature. And as a continuum to my Sonority project, to play with nature with my voice and electronics. 
Just two weeks before my trip, the lockdown hit, causing a chain of changes in plans. But since improvising is part of life and my music, who knows, maybe it was a 'meant to be' situation for this music to become end the way it ended up to be.  It has, in any case, been a transformative journey for this piece until now. 

Cover art by Tapani Toivanen indicates something disturbingly unnatural,  yet natural landscapes. Just like in my imagination.  Human- and machine-made, at the same time. 

Thank you for your beautiful photos Julie Montauk, Thank you Halvcirkel, Aske Zidore, Nick Martin, Thomas Vang, and the planet Earth for having me here!

Working on the theater - compositions,  sound design and performing - with IKI for the play TERROR / IS / ME by Sargun Oshana. On every performance I get amazed of the talented actors and the whole play. Grateful to be contributing!

It's running until the 2nd of October @ Odense Theater, Store Scene.

“One of the most impressive figures in the lively North- European improvised music scene. Unique and profound, Aika’s music runs through the freezing lands of Scandinavia, lays down on abstract land where jazz minimalism glazes in the dark stems from and abstract atmosphere that melts into cinematic images, where silence is a pure dialogue between electronics and new dissonances… 
 

 “… The lunar sound of Southern Light, indie Planetary electronics or Phases jazz noisec where David Sylvian’s refined genius is seen in the distance, eager to musically push into unkown territories. Sophisticated and experimental” (Windout. Italia)
 

Sulkunens vokal passer perfekt inn i de sporene hvor hun medvirker, og hennes stemme er nesten som skapt for dette ensemblet. Toldams pianospill er, som alltid, perfekt. En større og mer inderlig lyriker innenfor den nyere jazzen skal man lete en stund etter, og Toivanens bass-spill er originalt og fint, og trekker mye av musikken framover på en strålende måte. Og bakerst sitter kanskje den mest spennende trommeslageren fra Finland, Olavi Louhivuori, og holder det hele sammen på en fin måte. (Salt Peanuts, Jan Granlie)