Kalevala (Finland) - People No Names/Boogie Jungle, 1972/1975 (Prog)

1. People No Names (8:58)
2. Where I'm From (4:09)
3. Waves (6:06)
4. In The Net (4:45)
5. My Friend (2:48)
6. Lady With The Veil (4:16)
7. Escape From The Storm (5:13)
8. Tamed Indians (1:49)

9. Mind the Fly Hunter
10. Attack at nineteenhunderd
11. It we found the time
12. While the fire's warm
13. Boogie
14. Rocking fish
15. Snow Bill
16. Capseller
17. Jungle

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Harri Saksala - vocals, mouth organ, accordion
Juha Salonen - bass
Markku Luukkanen - drums
Matti Kurkinen - guitar
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Olli Ahvenlahti - piano
Raimo Wallen - flute
Ile Kallio (Hurriganes) - acoustic guitar

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Juha Salonen - guitar, keyboards
"Limousine" Leppanen - vocals, percussion
Matti Kurkinen - guitar
Ari Vaahtera - bass guitar, moog
Beaver Aitto-Oja - drums

Progarchives:
"KALEVALA was formed in 1969 by Juha Salonen (bass), Remu Aaltonen (drums/vocals) and Albert Järvinen (guitar). Their first name was VIENAM, but they had to change it in order to get concerts. This first line-up played straightforward rock’n’roll, and they were a popular live act in Finland. There was no studio recordings from this line-up, but the Finnish broadcasting company recorded their performance from 1970 “Ruisrock” festival. After this the line-up changed. Remu founded HURRIGANES, which Albert also joined later.

Now KALEVALA’s musical direction was changed to more progressive direction. The new musicians on their second line-up were Markku Luukkanen on drums, Matti Kurkinen on Guitar and Harri Saksala doing singing. They recorded one album, “People No Names” (1972) which was released by Finnlevy. They had some guest musicians helping on doing it: pianist Olli Ahvenlahti, Raimo Wallen playing flute and on acoustic guitar Ile Kallio, who was playing on HURRIGANES during that time. The result was quite unique.

The band was very unstable, as they had again changes in their line-up. Now they had Zape “Limousine” Leppänen on vocals, who has worked with many respected Finnish artists. The band recorded an album “Boogie Jungle” (1975), which is again more basic rock music. They had Jim Pembroke doing their lyrics plus backing vocals, and Jukka Gustavson playing keyboards on one track. Shortly after this band faced a sudden catastrophy, as Matti Kurkinen got in to a fatal car accident. Their name was defined as KALEVALA ORCHESTRA for their next album ”Abraham’s Blue Refrain” (1977). After this they toured Europe with ANGE, but they faced financial problems, and the musicians disbanded KALEVALA went to different directions.

Some members of the band rejoined in studio 1995, but they couldn’t get a record deal. These new tracks are available on “Anthology” (2004), which has some live recordings and before unreleased material on it."


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