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Auvo Quartet

Apparently some kind of 'groove' machine.

About Me

Tom Oakes - Wooden Flutes, Mouth Percussion
Julian Sutton - Melodeons
Roope Aarnio - Guitar, Backing vocals
Suvi Oskala - Fiddle, Viola, Vocals
The Auvo Quartet blend the vibrant traditional music heritage of their respective homes (Newcastle Upon Tyne; UK, and Helsinki; Finland) with the myriad of contemporary styles reverberating throughout those cities.
The band show a refreshingly open attitude towards music making and arrangement whilst their varied compositional approaches allow for a mesmerising amalgamation of contemporary sound. Combine this with virtuistic musicianship and an electric stage presence and it is no surprise that the Auvo Quartet are being heralded as one of the most enthralling young bands on the folk/world music circuit today.
The Auvo Quartet are now taking to the road with tours of Finland and the UK to promote their highly anticipated debut album Auvo Kvartetti
For individual biogs, check out our website!

(Our new album is avaliable to buy now for £12.99 + £1 p+p .)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2006
Band Website: auvoquartet.com
Band Members: Tom Oakes - Wooden Flutes, Mouth Percussion
Julian Sutton - Melodeons
Roope Aarnio - Guitar, Backing vocals
Suvi Oskala - Fiddle, Viola, Vocals

Influences: Miles Davis, Four Corners Quintet, Väsen, The Pogues, Joanna Newsome, Yann Tiersen, Lots of Finnish people!!, Jean-Michel Veillon, Warsaw Village Band, Motorhead, Jean Luc Thomas, Stereolab, Super Furry Animals, Edgard Varese, Blowzabella, Swåp, Tango-orkesteri Unto, Timo Alakotila . . .
Sounds Like: Best leave that upto you.
Record Label: Auvo records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Thanks for everyone on our October tour!

We had some great fun on our October tour in UK. Thank you for everyone who came to see our gigs. A huge thanks to Gris in Totnes and to everyone else who helped us out during our two week tour. Take ...
Posted by Auvo Quartet on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:58:00 PST

BUY CD FROM 'WWW.CUBEROOTS.COM' !!

Well we have an album all finished and avaliable! Our web-site however is a bit poorly. You can buy the record from www.cuberoots.com for now and soon from our own web site. Enjoy!! tom x
Posted by Auvo Quartet on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:02:00 PST

www.auvoquartet.com is launched

Well I've just spent the entire day building our new web-site. Please have a look!Other than that we'll have the proper venues and dates for the finnish tour up soon. cheers tom x
Posted by Auvo Quartet on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:00:00 PST

All finished!

Well this is all very exciting! to celebrate having all of our mastering finished, here's a few new tracks for your delictation. Janino is three tunes the first by jules, 2nd by me and the last one a ...
Posted by Auvo Quartet on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:12:00 PST

CD nearly finished!!!!!!

Well . . . Here we go at last. We received Pre-Mastered versions of the album last week and we're very, very happy with it! It's away being mastered now and should all be finished by October.We though...
Posted by Auvo Quartet on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:08:00 PST