Open-minded musical madness, massive guitar riffs and psychedelic funk!

For Jenni Kinnunen, the electric guitar is more than just an instrument. In the hands of the lead soloist and composer of the band Tinyhawk & Bizzarro, the guitar is a space rocket and a gateway to a world of imagination dancing without inhibitions. Kinnunen, who has enriched the Finnish indie pop soundscape with her intuitive elegance as a guitarist for the band Rosita Luu, has not taken the usual paths as a musician, and it shows. Her playing and compositions have their own unique sound.

The dreams and visions of her own music, which had been smouldering for years, needed the right allies to take flight. She found the answer in Savo. The Bizzarro trio, led for years by guitarist Markus Väisänen, was just the right band, operating on exactly the right wavelength and having a good command of colours and rhythms. In late winter and early spring 2022, the pieces fell into place effortlessly, as though by magic. Väisänen’s guitar has a telepathic connection with Jenni Kinnunen’s playing, and the bass-drum duo Teemu Aho and Jaakko Pöyhönen create a solid foundation for the flight of the guitars. The music that was swirling around in the recesses of Kinnunen’s mind was clearly meant to be played by this band!

Tinyhawk’s guitar world is full of adventure, sceneries flashing by, and dives into unexpected situations. The lived and the experienced turns into music. The totality of flamenco. Spanish classics for the classical guitar. A mad love for Japanese culture, sparked by Ghibli animations. An open-minded enthusiasm for music that feeds off the The Beatles-Black Sabbath-Jay Reatard-Grimes axis. Savo roots. A kinship with Khruangbin’s psychedelic, funky, imaginative ethno. Massive guitar riffs. Crazy euphoria on the dance floor of a disco. The deep warmth of melancholy. All of this is present in the music of Tinyhawk & Bizzarro, where the key is the experience of feeling. It creates connections to all dimensions.

The bold and fresh approach to guitar instrumental music has not gone unnoticed. Tinyhawk & Bizzarro’s debut album Nekorok was enthusiastically received by the veterans of the Finnish music media in autumn 2023. According to Ilkka Mattila from Helsingin Sanomat: “the band’s debut album Nekorok sounds like a breath of fresh air that blows the dust off the Finnish electric guitar music stored safely in the attic.” Susanna Vainiola from YLE was fascinated by “the stories told with the guitar”. Arttu Seppänen remarked in the Keskisuomalainen newspaper that Tinyhawk’s debut is “one of the most enjoyable Finnish albums of this autumn”.

Tinyhawk & Bizzarro received the ‘Newcomer of the Year’ award at the Indie Awards in January 2024 and won the prestigious Teosto Prize in April 2024. The band’s new album Neko-A-Sekoi was released in October 2025 by Humu Records, the best of the best. Harri Römpötti from Helsingin Sanomat gave the album a full five stars.

Tinyhawk & Bizzarro comprises:
Jenni Kinnunen
Teemu Aho
Markus Väisänen
Jaakko Pöyhönen