TUM Records Information

TUM Records is a new Finnish record company that released its first recordings in May 2003. TUM Records aims to produce high-quality music recordings and selectively organize concerts and events. The focus of TUM Records is on improvised, jazz-based music, placing particular emphasis on free expression and the performing artists' own music. In addition to providing younger musicians with exposure and a musical platform, TUM Records also intends to promote more experienced musicians whose work is not favored by the commercial trends of our time, despite the fact that these musicians have a lot to offer musically. Although TUM Records operates on ordinary commercial principles, profit is not its goal. TUM Records' objective is to use the proceeds from the sale of music recordings and organizing concerts for the production and publishing of new music. For this reason, TUM Records' operations are mostly based on volunteer work and the company intends to make good use of various entities interested in advancing and fostering the production and recording of improvised music. Accordingly, TUM Records will collaborate with, for example, the Finnish Jazz Federation and other similar non-profit associations and festival organizers. Further, as the commercial potential of its records is limited, TUM Records' operations shall, in part, be based on funding from public sources, including foundations such as the Finnish Music Promotion Center (ESEK) and the Foundation of Finnish Music (LUSES), and prospective corporate sponsors. The first two records from TUM Records, Suhkan Uhka: Suhka (TUM CD 001) and Juhani Aaltonen Trio: Mother Tongue (TUM CD 002), were released in May 2003. Following these initial releases, Juhani Aaltonen & Henrik Otto Donner with Avanti!: Strings Revisited (TUM CD 003), Iro Haarla & Ulf Krokfors: Heart of a Bird ( TUM CD 004), Ilmiliekki Quartet: March of the Alpha Males (TUM CD 005) and Raoul Björkenheim & Lukas Ligeti: Shadowglow (TUM CD 006) were also released in 2003. Juhani Aaltonen, Reggie ...