Arttu Takalo - Dark Jazz (2024)

The album started with keyboardist Mikael Myrskog, tubist Kenneth Ojutkanka and Artu for the cooperation with the National Theatre's Faust performance.
Kadi Vija, who already appeared on Artu's previous album "Levoton kloni" (2021), was asked to be the vocal soloist.

The composition was softened and the bumps were smoothed out for the "more beautiful" songs with harp (Katri Tikka) and string quartet (Maija Linkola, Tommi Asplund, Lotta Poijärvi and Tiia Ignatius).

Texts were taken from Edgar Allan Poe, poet of the younger generation Eino Santase, and like the previous album, the Södergran/Kailas box was tapped once again.
And historically, Arttu, at Kadi's urging, also ended up recording the recently deceased legend, Pave Maijanen's song Hän talmen mun sänkyyin. This was the first time that Arttu took a composition made by someone other than his own on his album.

Speedy Saarinen was once again responsible for the recording and partial production of the album, and the recordings were made in Oulunkylä, at the Mediagents studio.