Kimmo Pohjonen

Line up

• Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion)

• country:
  Finland
• label:
  indie
• type:
  Solist, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental
• artist submitted by:
  Hoedown Arts

Composed music with Kluster cohort Samuli Kosminen for full length Finnish feature film Jade Warrior.

Formed KTU group with Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn from King Crimson. New album forthcoming in early 2009.

Collaboration with Kosminen and Kronos Quartet. Album UNIKO, produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson, to be released in 2009.

Earth Machine Music project, with farmers and their machines, toured successfully in UK in 2008 and will tour 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)