JYMY

 Music from Finland

It was the mid 80’s and Instrumental-beat music was making a peak in to the finnish mainstream music.At the same time, guys working in a bank, stayed after work to play beat music for their own amusement and to entertain fellow workers in work related activities. JYMY was born.

JYMY was chosen to be the name of the group after the famous finnish strong “working mans” tobacco.

Jymy can also loosely be translated as the echoing sound of the music that one can hear playing from across the calm lake, from the open air dancehall, in the warm summertime night, when the sun doesn’t go down and when the women are exeptionally pretty.

( Sorry, I got carried away but one should really experience this Finnish scene even once..

I’m not going to start about the winter-time, when you have to ski across that lake just to get to the practice or carry your equipement in -30 degree weather or defrost your guitar with a hairdryer just to get a decent sound out of it. )

Anyway, time went on and the bank went under in the 90’s recession, but the group keept on going. Playing 60´s beat music with a vocalist and traditional Shadows-typed instrumentals through out the early ninetees.

JYMY of that era appeared around and about and managed to get themselves on some liveradio- and bootleg recordings that can be found even today, in some enthusiastics record shelves along with “Tanssikengät - Put on your dancing shoes”single.

Unfotunately, closing in year 2000, Markku Ruponen, the well known guitarist and musical instrument merchant, who had joined the group in the late 80’s, health started to deteriorate radically.

With the help of Ben Engblom from The Quiets the guys from JYMY found Tomi Peltonen to play the lead guitar. Around that time the group was also reinforced with a sax-veteran Timo Järvinen.

Times were hectic and alot of gigs were played in restaurants, private shindigs and festivals, ending at the 2001 Nastola OpenAir Festivals.

Like many groups before them, the musical interests of the members started to drift apart.

The drummer Jussi Harju decided to go all pro and joined The Twisters.While others started to lean on more towards surf-instrumentals and such.

After awhile, everybody started to fuss around on their own projects, in the small and narrow Finnish instrumental rock scene. Jukka Väisänen in The Charades, Tuomo Niittyaho in The Nightcreepers and Tomi Peltonen in The Defusers and The Dangermen only to name a few.

The split up wasn’t complete because there was an occaisonal JYMY gig with various lineups every now and then.

When The Dangermen were playing at Tubepark 2008 in Lahti, Finland in the wee hours of the night the organiser Pertti Nikka asked the members of JYMY, who were almost everybody present at the event, to perform at the next years Tubepark with the year 2000 lineup.

The desicion was made and JYMY was back at least for one gig playing their euro-instrumental-beat music. After the show Mr. Hoen came and adressed Tomi Peltonen for the possibility of joining the 2009 Cliff-Shadows club meet.

The guys agreed and are now practising furiously their Finnish1963styled-liverpoolish sung beat with an american twist of surf.

This is basically cross-section of the members own likings put together for you to enjoy in Holland.

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