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Kimmo Pohjonen
Experimental / Psychedelic / Electronica

accordion explorations




Finland

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Member Since5/19/2007
Band Websitehttp://www.kimmopohjonen.com
Band MembersKTU: Pat Mastelotto, Trey Gunn.
KLUSTER: Samuli Kosminen or Juuso Hannukainen.
PROTON STRING QUARTET: Teppo Ali-Mattila, Veli-Matti Iljin, Siiri Rasta, Maarit Holkko.
KRONOS QUARTET: David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Jeffrey Zeigler.
POHJONEN / KUOPPAMÄKI: Sami Kuoppamäki.
POHJONEN / ECHAMPARD: Eric Echampard.
KELAVALA: Heikki Laitinen, Reijo Kela.
ANIMATOR: Marita Liulia.
PINNIN POJAT: Arto Järvelä.
Sound: Heikki Iso-Ahola, Jukka Kaven.
Lights: Ari "Valo" Virtanen, Mikki Kunttu, Mikko Linnavuori.
Video: Mikki Kunttu, Antti Kuivalainen.


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Sounds Like


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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'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 include: KLUSTER duo featuring accordion samples by Samuli Kosminen, KTU with King Crimson's Pat Mastelotto, Trey Gunn, Samuli Kosminen, KTU trio with Gunn and Mastelotto, Kluster with Proton String Quartet, Kluster with KRONOS QUARTET, improvisation duo with French drummer Eric Echampard and ANIMATOR with live computer graphic design by Marita Liulia.

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” and with Samuli Kosminen, the full length Finnish feature film ”Jade Warrior”. Pohjonen and Kosminen have also composed music for a Finnish ”circus theatre” performance, Keskusteluja.

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.

Pohjonen's most recent new project is Earth Machine Music, which toured UK in May 2008, featuring accordion, farm machines and animals, samples and lots of funny noises in general.

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.

KTU live at FMM, Sines, Portugal, 2005

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Pohjonen & Echampard at Copenhagen Jazz Fest, 2007
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Jun 28 2009 8:00P
Festival Med Loule
Jul 9 2009 8:00P
Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Arts Center St. Petersburg
Jul 11 2009 8:00P
Colours of Ostrava Ostrava
Jul 16 2009 8:00P
Kaustinen Festival Kaustinen
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Winton, Queensland Winton
Jul 28 2009 8:00P
Blackall, Queensland Blackall
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
St. George, Queensland St. George
Aug 2 2009 8:00P
Tivoli, Brisbane Brisbane
Aug 27 2009 8:00P
Viapori Jazz Festival Helsinki
Sep 5 2009 7:00P
Helsinki City theatre Helsinki

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NEWS:
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 will tour Estonia in Feb 2009

POHJONEN'S EARTH MACHINE MUSIC will tour 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 early 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 2009.


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. (Kosminen departed in 2007). New album Quiver released Jan/Feb 2009.

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

KLUSTER - UNIKO with Kronos Quartet. Album to be released in 2009.

KLUSTER - UNUKO 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 duo with 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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Jul 10 2009 4:44 PM

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Jul 9 2009 7:40 AM

Kiitos mahtavasta musiikista!
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Jul 8 2009 6:27 PM

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Jul 7 2009 9:20 AM

DILETANT CLUB PRESENTS

... nice summer with US

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Jul 6 2009 2:05 PM

Kiitos loistavasta musiikista! Kiitos myös ystävyydestä ja hauskaa kesän jatkoa!

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Jul 6 2009 11:46 AM

THE FIRST ORIGINAL VIDEO FROM OLIMPIADA-80

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Jul 6 2009 11:23 AM

hei kimmo!

luved the gig at MED, cheers*
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Jul 5 2009 6:21 PM


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Jun 23 2009 1:42 PM

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Jun 22 2009 10:15 AM

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Jun 22 2009 10:15 AM

Merci de nous permettre la promotion de notre stage:

Vous êtes accordéoniste, débutant ou confirmé, ce stage vous permettra d’aborder sereinement et sans complexe l’improvisation sur des thèmes de Blues, de Swing Manouche, et de Jazz. 

L’accompagnement de ces différents styles, et plus généralement, la façon d’utiliser l’accordéon au sein d’une formation seront au cœur du programme. 

La semaine sera ponctuée de trois concerts donnés par les intervenants. 

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Jun 20 2009 9:02 PM

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Jun 17 2009 7:48 PM


MOTHER GOOSE
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Jun 17 2009 11:01 AM

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Jun 15 2009 3:59 PM

Hello Kimmo,

Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. Thanks for sharing your music with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!

We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music.

We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.

Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.

We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.

What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!

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New York, New York
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Jun 15 2009 1:46 PM

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Jun 15 2009 8:40 AM

Hey there! !

What's up?

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Jun 7 2009 10:14 AM

Thanx for the add! Nice greetings from Berlin!
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Jun 4 2009 5:33 AM

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Jun 2 2009 6:11 PM

Great big thanks for being a friend!

Our new album is available globally on iTunes now! Keep on carrying the torch!!!


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Jun 1 2009 6:14 PM

t h a n k  y o u !
Kemot





May 31 2009 12:41 AM

Hallo Freunde Performance/Kunst/Musik

         ""Was passiert mit einer seele in Not?"

Diese Thematik greift Kemot in seiner Art-Performance "Sekunda-Useless live" auf.Pantomimisch,mit Elementen aus Ausdruck-tanzes und aus Butoh,weitet er dem Zuschauer in dem Weg seiner persönlichen Katharsis ein.

Am donnerstag dem 4.juni im KING KONG KLUB Brunnenstrasse.173
                   
                     ShowTime 23:00

 KEMOT  "Useless life - SEGUNDA" saund-Breaity,voice-Kemot  

               *** Live Performance Art ***


Special Guest:

Diamond Daggers - (queer burlesque San Franciscol)

Der Abend folgt weiter mit DJ JuanOfaKind


 Ich freue mich auf dich,mit freundlichen grüße tomek.



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May 30 2009 12:54 PM



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