Jonne Järvelä

Jonne Järvelä ( born June 3, 1974) is a Finnish guitarist, singer and composer. He became famous mainly in pursuit of such activities as the frontman of the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani.

  • 3.1 With the Shamaani duo
  • 3.2 By Shaman
  • 3.3 With Korpiklaani 3.3.1 albums
  • 3.3.2 Singles

Life

Jonne Järvelä ( full name: Jonne Jari Juhani Järvelä ) was born on 3 June 1974 in southern Finland. His father's name is Raimo Järvelä. He grew up in Vesilahti, where he formed his first band with friends in 1988. 1993 moved Järvelä for five years in the vicinity of the place of Levi in the community Kittila in Finnish Lapland, where he along with his friend Maaret Aikio occurred as singer and guitarist from 1993 Shamaani duo in HulluPoro - ski resort. Their music was heavily influenced by the culture and the folk music of seeds by increasing disinterest in the Metal Järvelä had sold his entire geared to metal equipment, and focused Shamaani the duo as an acoustic guitarist fully on the Finnish folk music.

In Lapland, he also learned to sing in Joik style of the indigenous population. The manner how he found his own Joik style, he put in an interview with the Webzine vampster.com is in 2005:

" When I lived in Lapland, I really lived in the woods. The nearest shop was 80 kilometers away from my hut, so that I could go shopping only once a week. We then had to buy all at once, and usually he was exhausted before the next morning the entire beer supply for a week. So I have my Joik technique found. I have sat with a hundred bottles of beer on the rocks and tried to talk to the wolves that could be heard from a distance. "

Järvelä malnourished in Lapland mainly as subsistence farmers, for which he also regularly Chased.

With the resurgent interest Järveläs for Metal he turned away from the 1998 folk rock, or folk metal to and from the Shamaani duo which gave rise to the folk metal band Shaman, when he acted as a guitarist, singer and composer. It was at first difficult to establish the band as the Folk-Rock/Metal the band was not very well received both in the metal scene as well as the general public. Compared with the Legacy Magazine he commented in 2006 as follows:

"When I started in the early 90 to play folk with rock, me, the people who looked as if I were an idiot. And that was only once the next ten years to come. In the 90s, it was hard to be a folk metal type, because the whole world only this damn wanted to hear " Eurotechnorap " bullshit. [ ... ] "

In 2001, he appeared as a guest singer with Joik song on the debut album Tid Jaktens the Finnish folk metal band Finntroll with, and then toured with them. Strongly influenced by the concerts and the music of Finntroll, Järvelä replaced after ten years as the only permanent member of Shaman in 2003 to reincorporate under the name of the band Korpiklaani with stronger metal influence. In 2008 he worked on the album Beheading the Liars of the Argentine Celtic metal band Skiltron guest vocals on a song with. Also as a guest vocalist, he participated also in the album Igeret the Hungarian folk metal band Dalriada, which was released on February 18, 2011. In addition, he can also be heard in the song A Thousand Eyes from 2012 erschienenem album good day the German pagan metal band Varg.

Private

Jonne Järvelä now lives in the district Metsämaa the Finnish city Loimaa, each located about 2 hours drive from Tampere, Lahti and Helsinki. He is a multiple father. His eldest son is half - seed, and came into the world, as Järvelä lived in Lapland. His living Järvelä financed exclusively by the music.

Equipment

Approx. from 2004 played Jonne Järvelä exclusively handmade guitars unikate the Finnish guitar factory Amfisound. By 2007, he played a Les Paul model in wood look with tendrils drawings on the body. Then he played until 2009 Randy Rhoads electric guitar in shape. Since the album Karkelo Järvelä used again ESP, mainly an Explorer model.

Discography

With the Shamaani duo

With Shaman

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)

Singles

Guest Posts

  • 2001: Jaktens Tid ( Finntroll ) ( guest vocals)
  • 2008: Beheading the Liars ( Skiltron ) ( guest vocals)
  • 2011: Igeret ( Dalriada ) ( guest vocals)
  • 2012: A thousand eyes ( Varg ) ( guest vocals)
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