The Group - The Group

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1978
Time: 39:38 + 52:50
Size: 91,1 MB + 121,6 MB
Label: Svart[Deluxe Edition]
Styles: Progressive Rock/Jazz-Rock/Fusion
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
CD1
1. Thai -  5:19
2. Ripple Marks - 10:06
3. Berenice's Hair -  5:33
4. Gado-Gado -  6:53
5. Annapurna - 11:46
CD2
1. Try to Remember -  5:50
2. Armoton Idylli -  4:06
3. Berenice's Hair -  5:15
4. A Latin Snack -  6:09
5. Interlude -  4:11
6. Annapurna - 11:30
7. Pieces of the Picture -  3:57
8. Love Is Back (outtakes from the album sessions) -  6:46
9. Nite Sprite (outtakes from the album sessions) -  5:02

Musicians:
Seppo Tyni - guitars;
Pekka Pohjola - bass;
Olli Ahvenlahti - keyboards;
Vesa Aaltonen - drums.

The Group released one album in 1978 and later evolved to the Pekka Pohjola Group.
Double digipak CD. The 2nd disc features an extended studio session with the Sibelius academy orchestra plus two studio outtakes from the original album.
Highly influenced by Weather Report and the jazz fusion scene of the 70s, The Group was set up after Pekka Pohjola and Vesa Aaltonen came back to Finland from Sweden. They both played in the Swedish prog/jazz rock band Made in Sweden. As The Group’s guitarist Seppo Tyni remembers, Aaltonen came back to Finland in early 1977 and Pohjola later in the summer. From the early 1977 Aaltonen and Tyni both played in Olli Ahvenlahti Quintet that for example performed at the Finnish Eurovision qualification (though they played as a quartet there). The quartet (Olli Ahvenlahti, Seppo Tyni, Vesa Aaltonen, Heikki “Haka Virtanen) was the backing band for Markku Blomqvist who performed his song Liehuva liekinvarsi. If you listen to the song, it couldn’t be much more further in style from The Group’s material. However just in a matter of few months three of the band members would play in the jazz fusion quartet called The Group.
“This band was very remarkable for me as I had just moved to Helsinki from Pori in 1976. I played in the Swedish Theatre for one season and it led me to meet other musicians of my age like Haka Virtanen. Then I met Olli Ahvenlahti and Vesa Aaltonen. It was the first time I got to play with real professionals”, Tyni remembers.

The Group