Iiro Rantala is a jazz chameleon who loves to appear in many guises. The Finnish pianist invariably springs a surprise with the concepts for his albums, particularly those of his solo piano projects. For "My Finnish Calendar", he has turned a new page: this is improvised music but with an extra-musical narrative. Each piece on "My Finnish Calendar" represents a month of the year, and each also exists as an independent artistic statement. And if the storyline might not always be directly apparent from the music, Rantala has provided explanations and hilarious anecdotes in his liner notes. 

"Iiro Rantala is arguably the most internationally acclaimed Finnish jazz musician of his generation."
JAZZIZ 

"Iiro Rantala has a John Williams-like talent for writing instant earworms."
The Times