The Plankton Project

Thirty years ago, a Finnish teenager heard Chick Corea play and knew that was his music.

Thirty years later, he sent one email. Two hours later, Dave Weckl wrote back: "Wow man, what a fantastic piece of music."

The Plankton Project is the album Lenni-Kalle Taipale has been carrying inside him his whole life — a double LP of fusion jazz that's being recoreded in Los Angeles, Helsinki, and New York with the players who shaped the genre. Dave Weckl on drums. Mohini Dey and Tom Kennedy on bass. Eric Marienthal on sax. The target: a Grammy nomination in 2028.

This channel is the unfiltered window into that journey. Studio diaries from Ocean Way and Helsinki. Sessions captured live. Conversations with the legends in the room. Demos, sketches, and the slow obsessive work of building a record without compromise.

Subscribe for the road to the album.

Visit and get inspired: www.plankton.music (launching soon)
Email me at: leka28@me.com