When: Oct 30, 2009 2:44 pm
PEKKA’s Live Illustration tour in collaboration with musicians Uusi Fantasia (FIN), Eero Johannes (FIN)
30th of October NOTCH – Guangzhou /EERO JOHANNES AND PEKKA
31st of October WHISPER – Shenzhen / EERO JOHANNES, UUSI FANTASIA & PEKKA
4th of November NOTCH – Shanghai (Mao Livehouse)/ EERO JOHANNES, UUSI FANTASIA & PEKKA
6th of November NOTCH – Beijing / EERO JOHANNES, UUSI FANTASIA & PEKKA
Uusi Fantasia
Helsinki based Uusi Fantasia released their first album titled “Top Ten” on Telle Records/Jupiter Records in 2003. Since then they have toured around the world in places like Berlin, Tokyo, London & Barcelona, just to name a few.
The musical styles of Uusi Fantasia aren’t easy to cathegorize. You can hear influences from Disco, Electro, House, Folk, Rock & Jazz. With Uusi Fantasia live shows you never know what to expect.
The band members Street Kobra, Kroko-Roc & Ercola have also worked on projects like: OP:L Bastards (Jive/Zomba), Annie (679/Warner), Motiivi:Tuntematon (Kompakt), Erlend Oye (Source), Nicole Willis (Sähkö), Ercola VS Heikki L (Ministry Of Sound) ..etc. Uusi Fantasia tracks have been featured on many compilations and band has received support from DJ’s like: Rob Da Bank, Mixmaster Morris, Bjorn Torske, Jose Padilla, Prins Thomas, Matthew Herbert…
Currently Uusi Fantasia is in the studio working on a new album titled “Top 20” which will be released in 2010.
www.myspace.com/uusifantasia
photos by : www.mikkoryhanen.org
Eero Johannes
Eero Johannes is a one-man synthetic funk orchestra. His background as a drummer and a bassist has a fundamental part in building the electronic, “sugarhigh” grooves for the dancefloor.
His first experiments with electronic music started with tracker software, his interests gradually evolving towards midi-oriented
sequencers and playing live. His live performance, always partially improvised, indeed will make both girls’ and boys’ hearts throb. He’s all about crisp electronic cuteness; bass of grime, Miami and chic; topping it off with a keytar serenade.
Lately he’s been working on a new liveset that allows him to control both his visuals & music synced at the same time while playing, providing the audience a new way of perceiving the live-performance.
His debut album was released in September 2008 at Planet Mu Records.
Pekka: The Illustrations
Ville Savimaa
Ville Savimaa is an illustrator and graphic designer. He has been working as an illustrator since 2005. Ville has a background in advertising, but nowadays he works full-time as a freelancer. Ville sketches his illustrations by hand and finishes them in Photoshop. He mostly likes to draw odd characters in mystic settings. His illustrations were featured in last years Pingstate book, and more recently in Computer Arts and Grafik Magazine. Ville’s clients include: N2, King Finland, Publicis Helsinki, Misc Management, Supplement Facts Records and Tulva Magazine. Currently he works at his home studio in Helsinki.
www.pekkafinland.fi/villesavimaa
Sac Magique
Sac Magique is an illustrator from the UK who has been living in Finland for the past 4 years. He uses mainly gouache and rubber stamp printing techniques to create images which are filled with monsters and animals, both real and imaginary. Humour is especially important in his work. He finds inspiration in colours, textures, the animal kingdom and idiotic human behaviour. Apart from creating illustrations, he also hand prints postcards, posters, T-shirts and the odd wedding invite or two.
http://www.pekkafinland.fi/sacmagique
Agent Pekka – a Finnish illustration agency
Agent Pekka, an illustration agency based in Helsinki and the first organization of its kind in Finland, was established in September 2007. Launched during Helsinki Design Week, Pekka currently works both in Finland and abroad, promoting Finnish talent worldwide.
Pekka currently represents 23 of Finland’s finest illustrators: Lauri Ahonen, Jesse Auersalo, Vincent Bakkum, Emil Bertell, Johannes Ekholm, Ville Granroth, Minni Havas, Inka Järvinen, Leo Karhunen, Matti Kataja, Maija Louekari, Sac Magique, Joel Melasniemi, Rami Niemi, Lotta Nieminen, Sanna Paananen, Pietari Posti, Janine Rewell, Miika Saksi, Ville Savimaa, Helmi Sirola, Jani Tolin and Antti Uotila.
Of Pekka’s 23 illustrators, 21 are Finns, and two are Finnish resident expatriates. “We tend to point out the fact that Pekka is a Finnish illustration agency. There is an amazing amount of talented illustrators in Finland, so it’s been a real challenge to keep the number of illustrators we represent at around twenty. While we wanted to offer our clients a broad range of styles, we also wanted to keep the package manageable,” says Pablo Steffa, Managing Director of Pekka.
“We also wanted to create a good balance between the more traditional illustration techniques and current, contemporary styles,” adds Steffa. While agencies for artistic talent have long been the norm in the rest of the world, this is not been the case in Finland. “It has been a very interesting as well as challenging time for Pekka. Some of our local clients were unfamiliar with how to deal with agencies. Nevertheless, the feedback has been nothing but great.
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Pekka’s award-winning illustrators have served clients such as Absolut Vodka, Adidas, Amnesty International, Burton, EMI Finland, Finlandia Vodka, Finnair, Helsinki Design Week, Kalevala Koru, Levi’s, Marimekko, Music Television, Nike, The New York Times, Nokia, Red Bull, Sony BMG, Volkswagen, Warner Music and World Vision.
www.pekkafinland.fi
Magic Garden and Club G+ are very proud to present a China Premier: Vishnudata. An extremely talented artist, this Finnish musical maestro will bring his unique blend of trance music to the Shanghai crowds: minimalistic deep progressive psychedelic trance with a pinch of house and techno. A special double performance of Live AND DJ set will set a unique precedent in Shanghai for the development of electronic music in China. Don’t miss this!
