06.02.2026, 18:30 – 19:30 (2nd floor, Aitio)
Free entry

The joint sound of Sámi poet Niillas Holmberg and Emma-award winning saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen takes listeners to landscapes where the waterline on the shore rises and falls.

Where are we while a poet and a saxophonist are dragging a mythical song to dry land? Which waters are we looking at? The world that Niillas Holmberg and Pauli Lyytinen raise with the help of poetry, yoik, saxophone, percussions and live electronics is built on the simultaneous presence of centuries, dreams and wakefulness.

The collaboration between Holmberg and Lyytinen began in 2021, and the duo has since performed at numerous art, literature and music events in Finland, Germany, Italy and Norway. Eclipse Music published the duo’s first album, Naarattu laulu, on 24 October 2025. BBC3 made a 30-minute radio documentary, Ohcejohka, on Lyytinen and Holmberg’s artistic identity, which aired in Between the Ears on 2 November 2025.

From the beginning, Holmberg’s poetry has been one of the basic elements of the project. Gummerus published Holmberg’s new poetry collection, Naarattu, on 6 October 2025.

The club series produced in collaboration by April Jazz Club, Exhibition Centre WeeGee and EMMA brings live music into the museum setting. On every Friday EMMA has free entry from 3 pm onward. Admission to the concerts is free.