Acclaimed guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen launches sayr, his intimate new series of recordings for solo string instrument, with a double release of two stunning new albums: Available October 24, 2025 via unmusic, sayr: salt | thirst and sayr: kaiho – live in helsinki are haunting meditations on finding the still point amid motion and chaos.
“★★★★½ Unlike anything in memory; it doesn’t simply alternate worldly assortments of styles but rather creates a new, genre-less, form… one of the best recordings of 2022.” —Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz on Jussi’s album Three Seconds | Kolme Toista
“Three Seconds | Kolme Toista is a stunner. This album is a single, unified, diverse, overwhelming statement.” — JazzTimes