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who's who and who's doing what?Kimmo Pohjonen
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- Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion)
- country:Finland
- label:indie
- type:Solist, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental
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Collaboration with Samuli Kosminen and Kronos Quartet. Album UNIKO, produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson, released in 2011 on CD and DVD.
Accordion Wrestling project featuring Pohjonen and ten Finnish wrestlers premiered in Finland in 2010 and Hamburg 2011.
K Cube trio with Kimmo Pohjonen - accordion, Sami Kuoppamaki - drums and Timo Kamarainen - guitar toured Benelux in March 2011.
Composed music with Samuli Kosminen for full length Finnish/Chinese feature film Jade Warrior, winning award for Best Filmscore.
Formed KTU group with Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn from King Crimson. Latest album Quiver released in 2009 in Europe, America, Japan.
Earth Machine Music project, featuring Pohjonen and accordion in live performance with farmers and their machines, toured successfully in UK in 2008 and Queensland, Australia in July 2009.
"An accordion that goes to the unlimited areas of imagination. The result is outstanding. A phenomenon." (Ma'ariv, Tel Aviv)
"Finland's answer to Bjork. Pohjonen is nothing less than jaw dropping. Utterly brilliant."(New Internationalist)
Links
Images
Songs
Sumo by K Cube
Sumo by K Cube live at Korjaamo, Helsinki 2010
Unia by Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster
from Jade Warrior filmscore
Aorta by KTU
from Quiver album 2009
Amok
from Earth Machine Music
Särmä by Pohjonen / Kosminen / Kronos Quartet
from the album Uniko
