With White Paper, Tuur Florizoone and Anu Junnonen present their long-awaited first album. The record is the result of 25 years of friendship and musical collaboration, and brings together their shared history in twelve sensitive songs. White Paper exudes intimacy, vulnerability, and a strong interaction that hints at the origins of both musicians: jazz, world, pop, and contemporary chamber music.
Anu Junnonen and Tuur Florizoone have worked together in various musical contexts over the past few years, including in the group aNoo, with whom they released two albums: The Luckless Lands Of The North (Homerecords, 2007) and Sinipiika (Provarecords, 2011). After the band's last concert in 2013, they continued to play together sporadically, while the idea for a duo album slowly took shape.
For White Paper, they resolutely opted for new material. Anu Junnonen wrote the lyrics; Tuur Florizoone composed the music, with the exception of a few songs. They worked on this routinely for several months. Accordion became voice, words formed stories, a Nordic glow shines over an intimate and boundless musical landscape. The universe of White Paper now feels both colorful and sober. What began as a duo of vocals and accordion grew into a sound palette that also included piano, percussion, keyboards, and polyphonic vocals, and cello virtuoso Jörg Brinkmann was brought on board for two songs.
The recording did not take place in a sterile studio but in a secluded, spacious villa in the south of France with a view of endless hills. Sound engineer and percussionist Etienne Plumer recorded everything, sound mixer Dries Van Ende provided an uncompromising and at times ‘poppy’ sound, and Uwe Teistert took care of the mastering.
The result? A contrasting, exploratory, and decidedly adventurous album with ten new compositions and two covers, including “Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime” by The Korgis.
The album is released on Aventura Musica, Tuur Florizoone's label, and is the thirteenth release on the label.
- Verschenen : 14/04/2026
- Opgenomen : 1-5 sept 2025
- Dragers : cd, vinyl, digitaal
- Geluidstechnicus : Etienne Plumer
- Label : Aventura Musica
