Jonne Järvelä
Jonne Jari Juhani Järvelä (born June 3, 1974 ) is a Finnish guitarist , singer and composer . He was best known in these activities as the front man of the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani .
Life
Järvelä was born in southern Finland in 1974. His father was Raimo Järvelä. He grew up in Vesilahti , where he founded his first band with friends in 1988. In 1993 Järvelä moved to Levi in the municipality of Kittilä in the Finnish part of Lapland for five years , where he performed as a singer and guitarist together with his girlfriend Maaren Aikio as a Shamaani duo in the HulluPoro ski resort from 1993 onwards . The music of the duo was significantly influenced by the culture and folk music of the Sami. Due to a growing lack of interest in metal, Järvelä had sold all of his equipment geared towards metal, and in the Shamaani duo he concentrated fully on Finnish folk music as an acoustic guitarist.
In Lapland he also learned to sing in the yoik style from the local population. The way in which he found his own style of yoik he explained in an interview with the webzine vampster.com in 2005:
“When I lived in Lapland, I really lived in the middle of the forest. The nearest shop was 50 miles from my cabin, so I could only go shopping once a week. You then had to buy the entire supply of beer for a week at once and it was usually used up before the next morning. That's how I found my yoik technique. I sat on the rock with a hundred bottles of beer and tried to talk to the wolves that could be heard from a distance. "
In Lapland, Järvelä lived mainly on a self-sufficient basis , for which he also hunted regularly.
With Järvelä's growing interest in metal, he turned to folk rock and folk metal from 1998, and the Shamaani duo gradually developed into the folk metal band Shaman , for which he acted as guitarist, singer and composer. It was difficult to establish the band at first, as the band's folk rock / metal was not well received by either the metal scene or the general public. Järvelä told Legacy Magazin in 2006 as follows:
“When I started playing folk with rock in the early 90s, people looked at me like I was an idiot. And it stayed that way for the next ten years. In the 90s it was hard to be a folk metal guy because the whole world just wanted to hear that damn "Eurotechnorap" shit. [...] ”
In 2001 he appeared as a guest singer with yoik vocals on the debut album Jaktens Tid by the Finnish folk metal band Finntroll and then toured with them. Strongly influenced by the concerts and music of Finntroll, Järvelä disbanded Shaman as the only permanent member after ten years in order to re-establish the band with a stronger metal influence under the name Korpiklaani . In 2008 he worked on the album Beheading the Liars of the Argentine Celtic metal band Skiltron as a guest singer with a song. He was also a guest singer on the album Ígéret by the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada , which was released on February 18, 2011. He can also be heard in the song A Thousand Eyes from the 2012 album Guten Tag by the German pagan metal band Varg . In spring 2013 he worked again with Skiltron and sang the background vocals of the song The Rabbit Who Wanted to Be a Wolf on the album Into the Battleground .
Private
Jonne Järvelä now lives in the Metsämaa district of the Finnish city of Loimaa , about 2 hours' drive from Tampere , Lahti and Helsinki . He is a multiple father. His eldest son is half- seed and was born when Järvelä lived in Lapland. Järvelä finances his living exclusively by making music.
Equipment
From around 2004, Jonne Järvelä only played handcrafted, unique guitars from the Finnish guitar manufacturer Amfisound . Until 2007 he played a Les Paul model in a wood look with tendril drawings on the body. He then played an electric guitar in Randy Rhoads form until 2009 . Since the album Karkelo, Järvelä has been using ESP again , mostly an Explorer model .
Discography
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With the Shamaani duo
- 1996: Hunka Lunka
With Shaman
- 1998: Ođđa mailbmi (demo)
- 1999: Idja (Natural Born Records)
- 2002: Shamániac (Natural Born Records)
With Korpiklaani
Albums
- 2003: Spirit of the Forest ( Napalm Records )
- 2005: Voice of Wilderness (Napalm Records)
- 2006: Tales Along This Road (Napalm Records)
- 2007: Tervaskanto (Napalm Records)
- 2008: Korven Kuningas ( Nuclear Blast )
- 2009: Karkelo (Nuclear Blast)
- 2011: Ukon wacka (Nuclear Blast)
- 2012: Manala (Nuclear Blast)
- 2015: Noita (Nuclear Blast)
- 2018: Kulkija (Nuclear Blast)
Singles
- 2008: Keep On Galloping (Nuclear Blast)
- 2009: Vodka (Nuclear Blast)
- 2010: Ukon Wacka (Nuclear Blast)
Solo albums
- 2014: Jonne
- 2017: Kallohonka
Guest Posts
- 2001: Jaktens Tid ( Finntroll ) (guest vocals)
- 2008: Beheading the Liars ( Skiltron ) (guest vocals)
- 2011: Ígéret ( Dalriada ) (guest vocals)
- 2012: A Thousand Eyes ( Varg ) (guest vocals)
- 2012: Humppa Is My Neighbor ( Troll Bends Fir ) (guest vocals)
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- ↑ a b Interview with Jonne Järvelä in 2005 ( memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), metalfromfinland.com, accessed on January 28, 2011
- ^ Arto Lehtinen: Interview with Jonne Järvelä from Korpiklaani. In: Metal-Rules.com. November 18, 2015, accessed November 12, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e Interview with Jonne Järvelä , heavymetal.about.com, accessed on January 27, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e Désirée Kiel: Korpiklaani interview / report wisdom from the forest . In: Pagan Fire - The Legacy Chronicles I (special issue), Devil.Inc, Saarbrücken 2007, p. 78.
- ↑ Interview with Jonne Järvelä in February 2005 , metalstorm.net, accessed on January 28, 2011 (English)
- ↑ a b c d e f Interview with Jonne Järvelä in March 2005 , vampster.com, accessed on January 18, 2011
- ↑ Interview with Jonne Järvelä in February 2005 ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tartareandesire.com, accessed January 28, 2011
- ^ Skiltron - Beheading the Liars. In: Metal.de. June 22, 2008, accessed November 12, 2016 .
- ↑ New Dalriada Album feat. Jonne Järvelä ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , soulfood-music.de, accessed on January 28, 2011
- ↑ STORMBRINGER Review: VARG - Hello
- ^ Jonne Järvelä - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
- ^ Chart discography Finland
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| SURNAME | Järvelä, Jonne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Järvelä, Jonne Jari Juhani (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd June 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finland |