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Artist
Sans Parade
12+ albums
indie rockfinlandchamber poprocksinger-songwriter
about
Stylistically, the music of Sans Parade is characterised by strong vocals, highly orchestral, lush instrumentation and swooning pop hooks; violins, cellos, brass section and more exotic acoustic instruments seamlessly mixed together with traditional analog synthesizers. The singer Markus Perttula gives a soulful performance full of intuitive swells and fades, making his voice a purely sonic instrument. The strength of this set is founded on the clarity of a musical vision conducted by Jani Lehto and Pekka Tuppurainen that transcends styles to create something utterly enthralling. The first steps of Sans Parade were taken in July 2009, when the singer-songwriter Markus Perttula played his acoustic guitar in a sunny yard in Turku. He was performing as a warm-up act for the Finnish artist Eleanoora Rosenholm. One of the people in the audience was Jani Lehto, who had been looking for a singer for his new project that aimed to capture and mix the delicacies of orchestral chamber pop and the extrovert confidence of indie rock. After the show, these two musicians met and immediately found mutual ambitions and ideals in music. Markus even had a name ready for the new band and in the following week they had their first songs recorded. This is how Sans Parade came to be – suddenly and without a warning. The discography of Jani Lehto began to form in the end of the 1990s, when a vast and restless field of electronic music flourished in his hometown Turku. In those times, Jani's musica
