Tuur Florizoone & Anu Junnonen - White Paper

With ‘White Paper’, Tuur Florizoone and Anu Junnonen present a long-awaited first album and thus play their trump card: sturdy roots! 25 years of no-nonsense friendship and musical collaborations lead to a sincere and adventurous story in 12 sensitive songs. ‘White Paper’ breathes proximity, vulnerability and a strong interaction that makes one suspect the origin of both musicians: jazz, world, pop and contemporary chamber music. For ‘White Paper’ they resolutely chose new material. Anu Junnonen wrote the lyrics, Tuur Florizoone composed the music, with a few exceptions. They routinely got to work with that for several months. Accordion became voice, words formed stories, a nordic shine shines over an intimate and boundless musical landscape. The universe of ‘White Paper’ feels both colorful and sober in the meantime. What started as a duo of vocals and accordion grew into a sound palette in which piano, percussion, keyboards and polyphonic vocals also received a place and for two songs cello wonder Jörg Brinkmann was brought on board. The recording did not happen in a sterile studio, but in a secluded spacious villa in the south of France with a view of endless hills. Sound technician and percussionist Etienne Plumer captured everything, sound mixer Dries Van Ende ensured a uncompromising and at times ‘poppy’ sound and Uwe Teistert took care of the mastering. The result? A contrast-rich, probing and definitely adventurous album with ten new compositions and two covers, including ‘Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime’ by The Korgis.