Country: Finland
Address: Tehtaankatu 19 H 41, 00150 HELSINKI, Finland
Phone Number: +358 40 51 30 395
email address: information ::: esa ontonen ::: kari ikonen
website: www.fiaskorecords.com
setting up: 2000

Main musicians of your collective:
Kari Ikonen ::: Mikko Innanen ::: Mika Kallio ::: Esa Onttonen ...

Bands: (leader, names, instruments):
• Ahava: (Mia Simanainen, vocals ::: Kari “Sonny” Heinilä, saxophones ::: Kari Ikonen, piano ::: Mika Kallio, drums)
• Delirium: (Mikko Innanen, saxophones ::: Kasper Tranberg, cornet ::: Jonas Westergaard, doublebass ::: Stefan Pasborg, drums)
• Gnomus: (Kari Ikonen, keyboards ::: Mika Kallio, drums ::: Esa Onttonen, guitar)
•Gourmet: (Mikko Innanen, saxophone ::: Ilmari Pohjola, trombone ::: Veli Kujala, accordion ::: Esa Onttonen, guitar ::: Petri Keskitalo, tuba
Mika Kallio, drums)
•Karikko: (Kari Ikonen, piano ::: Gunnar Halle, trumpet ::: Vincent Courtois, cello ::: Kari “Sonny” Heinilä, saxophone ::: Tony Elgland, double bass
Mika Kallio, drums)
• Nuijamiehet: (Mikko Innanen, saxophone ::: Kalle Kalima, guitar ::: Lasse Lindgren, bass ::: Mika Kallio, drums)
• Esa Pietilä Trio: (Esa Pietilä,saxophones ::: Uffe Krokfors, double bass ::: Markku Ounaskari, drums)
• Mikko Innanen & Mika kallio duo

The “philosophy” of the project, its history:
8 Helsinki-based jazz musicians joined together in 2000, to release everyone’s cd’s individually, but to cooperate in marketing, distribution, promoting etc.
Thank you to also specify if the structure is opened or closed, which are the conditions to access it (co-optation, vote,...) if there is various statutes within the collective...
We are open for all kinds of changes... for the better.

Organisation:
Do you have a structure to coordonate your activities (non-profite organisation, company ? name and quality of the board):
Fiasko Records, registered company, created in 2000

Administrative Staff:
Musicians: Esa Onttonen, Mikko Innanen, Kari Ikonen

Technical buildings, means, material park (amplifiers, instruments, fly-boxes...):
nothing

Activities:
So far only a record label. Future plans include a small festival

Decision's procedure:
Kari Ikonen, Esa Onttonen & Mikko Innanen, in consensus

Financing in 2008:
Subsidies
Civil society, fondations: organisations ESEK and Luses usually support the producing of our cd’s.