Jaakko Teppo

Jaakko Teppo is a favorite Finnish folk designer, troubadour, and satirist, who entered the bigger public awareness in the first ’80s. He earned the “couplet performing” (a kind of traditional funny music) Finnish tournament in 1978 and 1979, and adopted up with a succession of funny albums. Finland has already established a long custom of novelty tracks, and Teppo can be but one of these of the recognition of the old-fashioned yet funny take a look at one’s fellow countrymen. His 1st record, 1980’s Ruikonperän Multakurkku, was an instantaneous sensation. (The name, Mud-Throat of Ruikonperä, can be a play on he term kultakurkku — “fantastic neck,” i.e., somebody with a striking tone of voice.) His razor-sharp, country-hick satire got a definite blue-collar experience — Teppo was a machinist by trade — and his focuses on ranged from well-known tradition (“Pamela,” about among the business lead characters for the cleaning soap opera Dallas, was an enormous chart strike in 1980) to rude vacationers (“Mikko-Sika Mallorcalla” — Mikko-Pig in Majorca), even though he also took a are a symbol of the working guy (“Työttömän laulu” — Music for the Unemployed). His tales were mostly occur the fictional city of Ruikoperä, a conceit recently utilized by Neil Youthful on his Greendale record, which supplied him with a car by which he will make sharpened observations of his environment. He released information like 1984’s Onnen Kerjäläinen (Beggar of Pleasure) and 1995’s Pers’aukisten Piiritarkastaja (Inspector from the Flat Broke Circuit) in to the middle-’90s when his musical profession was, for some purposes, finished by a hard illness. He previously capitalized on his achievement by working like a columnist for papers and for the air. He proceeds his composing, and his music has already established a resurgence in the brand new millennium through his two sons, Ilja and Johannes, and through reinterpretations from the music group Sössölandian Kultakurkut (the Golden Throats of Mushlandia), offering both the well-known rock and roll musician Ismo Alanko and his sibling, Ilkka Alanko from the music group Neljä Ruusua (Four Roses). Karjalan Kunnailla 1984, an archived live show, premiered in 2007.