Kimmo Pohjonen

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K CUBE TOUR OF FINLAND:
Kimmo Pohjonen, Sami Kuoppamäki and Timo Kämäräinen (aka K Cube) will tour Finland in October 2010. The trio of accordion, drums and guitars explores new paths of solos, duos and group compositions and improvisations.
Oct 6: Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
Oct 8: Hyvinkää, Finland - Hyvinkääsali
Oct 9: Lahti, Finland - Finlandia-klubi
Oct 13: Tampere, Finland - Klubi
Oct 14: Jyväskylä, Finland - Lutakko


KINO UUMEN FILM MUSIC PERFORMANCES
Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion) and Eric Echampard (drums) will perform as Kino Uumen at the Love and Anarchy Film Festival in Helsinki on Sept 26 at 21:30. Venue: Cinema Bio Rex. The improvisational music duo will perform music for the films: Freedub 1, MRDRCHAIN, Black Horse and Máquina.
http://www.hiff.fi/lang-en/calendar/event/2365---kino-uumen--ainutlaatuinen-elokuvakonsertti
The duo will repeat the performance in Tallinn, Estonia on Sept 27th, 19:00, at the venue: Kinos Sõprus, as part of the Jazzkaar Autumn season.
http://www.jazzkaar.ee/artist.php?l=est&id=761

ACCORDION WRESTLING PREMIERE in Turku, April 22:
Kimmo Pohjonen premieres his new project Haitaripainia / Accordion Wrestling in Turku, Finland in April, 2010. The performance, featuring Pohjonen and ten Finnish wrestlers, is a revival of Finnish wrestling tradition from early to mid-1900s where accordion was included as musical accompaniment for wrestling matches. Haitaripainia 2010 expands the tradition into a theatrical sport / music performance art piece with light design by Mikki Kunttu, sound design by Heikki Iso-Ahola and direction / choreography by Ari Numminen. The performances begin in Turku, continue in Helsinki in May and go to Stockholm and Tampere in August 2010. The show will be expanded to a larger scale for performances at Turku Cultural Capital 2011 events.
April 22-25: Turku, Finland - Konepaja
May 13-16: Helsinki, Finland - Kaapelitehdas
Aug 11-12: Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Culture Festival
Aug 19-21: Tampere, Finland - Teatteri Monttu

Accordion Wrestling info:
http://www.kimmopohjonen.com/nav.php?url=accordion_wrestling.html


EARTH MACHINE MUSIC downloads:
Three recordings from Kimmo Pohjonen's Earth Machine Music are now available as downloads. The recordings, "Regenerator", "Mutiny at Manor Farm" and "Amok", were made during the Earth Machine Music tour of UK in 2008 and are available to purchase from the new Oxford Contemporary Music download shop at this URL link:
http://www.ocmevents.org/ocm/artists/KimmoPohjonen;jsessionid=35C0AC54AE1B1EBDFFFD38D75DE1B9D2


The new project of visual performance artist Ville Walo and Kimmo Pohjonen entitled Rautakeuhko "Iron Lung" makes its premiere at Verkatehdas, Vanajasali in Hämeenlinna, Finland on December 1st and 2nd. The hour long music theatre performance features Walo and Pohjonen and over one hundred accordion bellows with all new music composed by Pohjonen.

KTU'S SECOND ALBUM entitled Quiver is released in Finland by Rockadillo Records on February 4, 2009 and throughout Europe in March 2009 by Rockadillo/Westpark. Disk Union will release Quiver in Japan on March 20, 2009. The American release is on May 1 by 7dMedia.
KTU (pronounced "K2") is now a trio following the departure of Samuli Kosminen in 2007. The new album Quiver was recorded at The Zone studios, Dripping Springs, Texas in 2007 and 2008, production by KTU, engineered by Pat Manske. Additional recordings were made in Seattle and Helsinki. The album was mixed by KTU and Petri Majuri at Seawolf Studios, Helsinki in autumn 2008 with additional mixes of three pieces by Steven Wilson at No Man's Land Studios, UK. All music was composed by the various band members and arranged by KTU. Samuli Kosminen provided additional percussives and sounds.

POHJONEN / KOSMINEN / PROTON STRING QUARTET toured Estonia in Feb 2009

POHJONEN'S EARTH MACHINE MUSIC toured Queensland, Australia in July 2009. EMM toured UK in May 2008, featuring accordion, farm machines and animals, samples and lots of funny noises in general.

EARTH MACHINE MUSIC audio downloads will be available from Oxford Contemporary Music in late 2009. Three pieces from the UK tour of 2008 have been mixed in Helsinki by Pohjonen and made ready for public release as downloads by OCM.

UNIKO by Pohjonen / Kosminen and Kronos Quartet will be released on CD in 2010.




POHJONEN BIO:
Finnish Accordionist KIMMO POHJONEN has been playing since age 8 in folk, rock, avant-garde, classical, improvisation, theatre and dance music groups and projects. In 1996 he embarked on a solo career with his solo 5-row accordion project, featuring original compositions, live loops and effects, a dynamic and animated stage performance, orchestrated lights and surround sound. His singular mission is to expand the capabilities, sound, performance, scope and experience of the accordion in many different projects.

CURRENT PROJECTS:
KTU, (pronounced "K2"), trio with King Crimson's Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn. Latest album Quiver released Jan 2009.

RAUTAKEUHKO / IRON LUNG: Music theatre performance with visual performance artist Ville Walo.

KLUSTER duo featuring Pohjonen with accordion samples by Samuli Kosminen or Juuso Hannukainen.

KLUSTER - UNIKO with Kronos Quartet. Album to be released in 2010.

KLUSTER - UNIKO with Proton String Quartet. Estonian tour Feb 2009.

EARTH MACHINE MUSIC featuring new compositions performed on farms with local farmers and their machines, tools and animals. Australian tour 2009.

POHJONEN / KUOPPAMÄKI / KÄMÄRÄINEN: Kimmo Pohjonen with guitarist Timo Kämäräinen and drummer Sami Kuoppamäki.

POHJONEN / ECHAMPARD improvisation duo with French drummer Eric Echampard.

KELAVALA improvisation with Reijo Kela (dance) and Heikki Laitinen (voice)

ANIMATOR: Pohjonen with live computer graphics by Marita Liulia.

FILM MUSIC: Pohjonen has composed and performed music for three films the British short film ”Flickerman and the Ivory-Skinned Woman”, the Russian full length feature film, ”Majak”. With Samuli Kosminen, they composed the full length Finnish feature film ”Jade Warrior”. Pohjonen and Kosminen have also composed music for a Finnish ”circus theatre” performance, Keskusteluja.

MUSIC FOR DANCE: Pohjonen has composed music for a Swedish dance performance by choreographer Lisa Torun and collaborated in Paris with dancers /choreographers Tero Saarinen and Carolyn Carlson. His music is used in dance and ballet performances by Finnish choreographer Jorma Uotinen.

PAST PROJECTS include: Kalmuk, featuring Tapiola Sinfonietta, Manipulator with Marita Liulia and buto dancer /choreographer Aki Suzuki, duo Pinnin Pojat with JPP fiddler Arto Järvelä and Ismo Alanko Säätiö.

Kimmo Pohjonen / Sami Kuoppamäki, live at Korjaamo, Helsinki, 2008


Kimmo Pohjonen live in Tallinn, 2008

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Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen and Kronos Quartet "Kalma"

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Members:

KTU: Pat Mastelotto, Trey Gunn.
K CUBE: Sami Kuoppamäki, Timo Kämäräinen
RAUTAKEUHKO / IRON LUNG: Ville Walo
KLUSTER: Samuli Kosminen or Juuso Hannukainen.
PROTON STRING QUARTET: Teppo Ali-Mattila, Veli-Matti Iljin, Matilda Solonen, Maarit Holkko-Wagoner.
KRONOS QUARTET: David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Jeffrey Zeigler.
POHJONEN / ECHAMPARD: Eric Echampard.
KELAVALA: Reijo Kela, Heikki Laitinen.
ANIMATOR: Marita Liulia.
PINNIN POJAT: Arto Järvelä.
Sound: Heikki Iso-Ahola, Jukka Kaven.
Lights: Ari "Valo" Virtanen, Mikki Kunttu, Pekka Martti, Antti Rehtijärvi, Mikko Linnavuori.
Video: Mikki Kunttu, Antti Kuivalainen, Antti Rehtijärvi.

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Sounds Like:

Kluster & Dakha Brakha, Gogolfest, Kiev, 2010




Kluster Portugal 2008
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Earth Machine Music, UK, 2008
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KTU tour 2008: Kazan, Moscow, Helsinki
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Pohjonen / Kosminen & Proton String Quartet, Estonia 2009

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KTU live at FMM, Sines, Portugal, 2005

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Pohjonen & Echampard at Copenhagen Jazz Fest, 2007
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Pohjonen "Keko" live in Helsinki, 2000 Add to My Profile | More Videos

Kimmo Pohjonen Animator

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