Jouney to ArabJazz is a project that will culminate for two free concerts in Helsinki and Espoo. The idea is create a meeting place for the people from different cultural backgrounds. It’s also about to bring up the conflict situations at the moment in Middle-East and Arabic countries and to make a statement for peace with music.

Journey to Arabjazz is about diving into sensitive, mysterious, rhythmical and entertaining mixed genres of jazz and Arabic music. Playful and improvised music with strange scales and rhythms. Musicians from different parts of the world and cultures come together, share and combine their musical backgrounds. The goal is to bring musicians from both oriental and jazz genres and create an unique atmosphere between the audience and musicians.

The music is composed by Lotta-Maria Pitkänen and Aapo Heinonen and it’s influenced of jazz, folk and oriental music.
In the music is also left a lot of room for improvisation.