Kalmuk
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KalmukOpis:In Kalmuk, Kimmo Pojhonen has produced his most ambitious work to date. First performed live at the Savoy Theatre, Helsinki (from which this recording is taken), Kalmuk sees Pojhonen and regular collaborators Abdissa Assefa (percussion) and Samuli Kosimen (sampler and percussion) augmented by a 15-piece symphony orchestra, comprising members of Finland's Tapiola Sinfonietta. It is a hugely courageous and chaotic work in which Pojhonen's trademark one-man performances of accordion and loop effects have expanded through the prominent use of strings and woodwind. Kalmuk's opening piece "Kellua" playfully mimics the sound of an orchestra tuning and warming up, and warm up they should considering the energetic "Mantis" that follows. As Pohjonen squeezes and pushes buttons to produce all manner of unearthly sounds from his instrument, Kosimen feeds his signal through live effects and loops into the quadraphonic sound system. One thing that remains from Pohjonen's earlier recordings such as his 1996 solo debut Kielo is improvisation. This does not exclude the accompanying orchestra who are encouraged to explore Kalmuk's themes and dispense with music stands and printed music.
Pojhonen's ability to listen and react to the orchestra is to be respected. For someone with so much critical acclaim and obvious talent, he wisely adopts a collaborative position throughout the work, only stepping obviously into the limelight for "Vortex", in which we hear his guttural five-row accordion pumped and stretched to its extremities. --Robert Smoughton Product Description Kimmo Pohjonen is one of the most respected and in-demand musicians and performers in Finland. An accordionist of exceptional ability and imagination, Kimmo's musical history goes back more than twenty years in rock, folk, avant garde, improvisation, classical, dance and theatre music projects. In 1996 he embarked on a solo career with his solo 5-row accordion project, featuring extreme and original compositions, live loops and effects, a dynamic and animated stage performance, orchestrated lights and quadraphonic sound.
Review They've called him the "accordion terrorist", the "fearless magician of sound". Reviews of his live gigs comment as much on the astonishing spectacle as they do on the music. But at the heart, at the very foundation of a Kimmo Pohjonen concert with all its electronic wizadry and brilliantly designed lighting, is Kimmo's blazing passion for music itself. It's that unstoppable, whirlwind passion which is behind his latest CD release Kalmuk.
The Kalmuk project was premiered in Helsinki two years ago. I was there, at the city's Savoy Theatre, to witness Kimmo, two rock percussionists and fifteen members of one of Finland's top orchestras, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, take us by storm. These musicians' lives were dominated by the Mozart and Sibelius scores sitting on their music stands.
Kimmo embarked on a project which would force them to throw away the stands, the chairs, to move and to improvise. After all, someone had once done that to him when he turned his back on a career as a classical accordionist, and opted instead for the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki! It was survival of the fittest. It worked! The smiles on the faces of the orchestral players told of their pride. They were no longer doing what someone else had asked, they were doing what they wanted.
The CD is a recording of one of the Helsinki performances in 2000. It needs to be listened to from start to finish, from the gentle, and soon mysterious, curtain raiser track 'Kellua', through the wild and psychedelic 'The Furies'. The final track 'Genesis', with its insistent rhythms and poignant lyricism, will send you hurling through whichever imaginary space your mind has chosen to inhabit.
The music is captivating, shocking, disturbing, invigorating. It exists in a musical world somewhere between classical and avant-garde folk. A unique albuAutor:Kimmo Pohjonen & Tapiola SinfonietaNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2004Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.3 cmSzerokość: 4.9 cmDługość: 5.3 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.