HISTORY

May 2009: Jooklo Finnish Quartet first tour, with few incredibly exciting gigs around Italy, spreading some freedom lightings around. A fresh breeze is announcing new things... 
March 2009: The duo tours Europe with few gigs around Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.
February 2009: "Birthday Session", first LP by the Jooklo Finnish Quartet (Sami Pekkola, Virginia Genta, Tero Kemppainen, David Vanzan) is released as Troglosound 025. Recorded in Helsinki on August 24th, 2008.
January 2009: December and January has seen Vanzan and Genta living in Saint Etienne, France, sharing experiences in Life and Music with bassist Jeremie Sauvage and drummer Mathieu Tilly, working with them on free structures based on repetitive rythmic patterns with deep roots in hypnotic and trance traditional music from all over the world. 
Meanwhile in preparation a small Jooklo Duo Europe tour for March 2009.
August 2008: Jooklo duo in Finland, for seven concerts in trio with Tero Kemppainen all over the Country, with guest for some gigs also Sami Pekkola on tenor and soprano sax. Genta starts with soprano sax during this tour, and the new quartet sounds as something that is voted to become a true stable formation.
July 2008: Moved to Portugal near Lisbon, Genta and Vanzan starts to play more with the percussionist Tiago Miranda (Loosers), giving finally an answer to the crescent will of developing an always more percussive-oriented and wild Sound, able to bring the listener faraway, deeply down in the sound of the forest inside himself. In preparation a fall tour of the Jooklo Fire Quartet, featuring Genta on sax, Vanzan and Tiago on percussions, and Andrew Barker on drums.
May 2008: First USA tour, 30 intense days around the East, during those the two musicians have chance to try on their skins strong spiritual experiences and to meet the drummer Andrew Barker, the percussionist Muruga Booker and his Free Funk family, the duo Peaking Lights many others great human beings. "Music is the key" Paul Flaherty said a night in Northampton...
April 2008: Jooklo duo does its first recordings and concerts with a double-bass player included in the straight and hot structures of the duo, the finnish bassist Tero Kemppainen.
November 2007: Jooklo duo first tour in the UK, performing at Red Rose in London for the Wire 25th, to meet the "souls-warmer" altoist Sonny Simmons. Second LP by Neokarma Jooklo Trio "Solar Vision" is issued by Qbico.
September 2007: "Free Serpents" is issued by Qbico Records, alongside "Meditative", first record of the Neokarma Jooklo Trio (the seed of the Neokarma experience, with Maurizio Abate as leading figure of this new project) and "Infinity" by Neokarma Jooklo Octet" (enlarged formation born from Genta, Vanzan and Abate, featuring also Makoto Kawabata). 
April 2007: First massive and intense tour for the duo, 40 days around Europe and Scandinavia with almost no days off, together with the more rock-oriented band G.I.Joe
December 2, 2006: Recording of the first complete work "Free Serpents"
2005-2006: Continuing to evolve the Sound, growing up the dynamics without any other wish than learn how to reach the closeness to the Uncreated Sound. Genta swtich definetly to the tenor and starts with the baritone too.
2004: Jooklo duo was born, Virginia Genta beginning on alto and tenor sax, David Vanzan on drums. Some first gigs around Italy and some rough home recordings. 
2001-2003: Discovering and birth of passion for the freedom music.
1999: The Cosmic Force made the poles converge.

Deeply down, if you have the courage to explore the most hidden lands of Space, you arrive at some point where you just know that the Souls are so ancient that you're just prepared to everything the Uncreated is going to bring you. Sometimes you expect something, and something else arrives. That's the way in which the One around and over here is bringing harmony to the Cosmo order, continuously giving you lessons through an incredibly high sense of humor. What we all need is Peace, and there's no Peace until there are borders inside the ways of Soul and Mind. Reaching redemption and salvation, we pilgrimate this stellar ways of Light, always happy to meet both angels and demons, messengers of two parallel worlds playing a perpetual game of balances. "Music is the key", and when the gates open showing the reign of what is over the game of contrasts, you can be scared or joyful. But at the same time you'll be experimenting the rules of freedom of the unpredictable Light. We just try to do our best as walking messengers of what is on the other side of the Gates, as many others has done during the immesaurable story of the Circle of Souls. 
Music is the word of us, creatures of the air.