Something Else v10 Album Release Party | Varis/Smith

In the quiet of mid-winter, the 10th edition of Something Else veers towards the warm, meditative, and ambient with a duo of Siiri Lumpeenkukka Varis (sax/electronics) and Wilson Tanner Smith (cello/electronics).

Tonight also celebrates the release of Smith's new solo album "Perpetual Guest" (Sawyer Editions) which features improvisations on cello and an antique harmonium at the Kreenholm Factory in Narva, Estonia, created in the silence of the abandoned factory a stone's throw from Estonia's fraught border with Russia. Physical CDs available at a discount tonight only!

Free entry, suggested donation €5-€500 (mobilepay or cash)
2 sets
22nd Jan 2026 at 7pm

SOMETHING ELSE is a concert series for improvised music focused on new meetings of musicians from across Helsinki's free improv, experimental, jazz, electronic, and global music communities, hosted on the 4th Thursday of each month at Kallio's Musta Kissa bar. New small-ensemble groupings are highlighted each time, with an emphasis on surprise, difference, curiosity, energy, and connection. Curated/hosted by Wilson Tanner Smith.

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About:

SIIRI LUMPEENKUKKA VARIS is a multi-instrumentalist flaring in dreamy sceneries. Her practices are inspired by nature's sweet chaos and dynamic coexistence. Performing as Varis, she explores the rhizomes of presence through whispers of the alto sax.

WILSON TANNER SMITH is a cellist, composer, improviser, and music-theatre artist currently based in Helsinki. His musical sensibility is informed by free improvisation/free jazz, ambient, DIY and found sounds, and by many cross-cultural/-genre collaborations in his former hometown, Chicago, and more recently across northern/western Europe.

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