Joakim Berghäll & Adele Sauros (FI) | T.I.M. (NO-FR) – MalmiJazz | 30 years of Vapaat äänet

Producer Charles Gil’s Vapaat äänet (‘Free Voices’), which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this autumn, presents two ensembles at a concert at Malmitalo.

Runoja rauhalle – Poems for Peace is an emotive, meditative manifesto for peace by two saxophonists, Joakim Berghäll and Adele Sauros. Formed as a result of Norwegian-French collaboration, T.I.M. creates fascinating experimental music in the spirit of folk. This is the 38th tour produced jointly by Vapaat äänet and the Finnish Jazz Federation since 1996.

Joakim Berghäll & Adele Sauros: Poems for Peace
Adele Sauros – tenor and soprano saxophone
Joakim Berghäll – baritone saxophone, cello

The compositions featured in Joakim Berghäll’s and Adele Sauros’s duo concert stem from a solo improvisation played by Berghäll in a single sitting, catalysed in an abstract manner by anti-war poems written in various crisis zones around the world. The melodic themes for the compositions have been written down exactly as they were, without altering a single note, remaining true to the impulses of improvisation. Berghäll and Sauros recorded the tracks in Kamppi Chapel, and that is how the album Runoja rauhalle came about.

T.I.M.
Karoline Wallace – vocals, backing tracks
Inger Hannisdal Hardinger – violin, vocals
Sébastien Palis – piano, synthesiser, composition

T.I.M. is a trio formed by French pianist Sébastien Palis together with Norwegian singer Karoline Walace and violinist Inger Hannisdal. The band’s captivating minimalism straddles the boundary between folk music and improvisation; it oscillates between light and shadow, blending acoustic expression with homemade electronics. The stories behind the songs are born through the eyes of children or built from instinctive memories, or even from an ancient nursery rhyme sung by an Inuit woman. The Hungarian record label BMC is set to release T.I.M.’s debut album Tall, Infinite, Microscopic in September 2026.

Joint tour production: Vapaat äänet & the Finnish Jazz Federation
The tour is supported by: AJC, CNV, the French Institute

Duration: 2 h, incl. 20-min intermission