Monday, 10 August 2009

Kalmuk

by Kimmo Pohjonen

Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen plays music which is very difficult to categorise or describe. Wikipedia says that his

singular mission is to expand the capabilities, sound, scope, performance and experience of the accordion to levels never before attempted, seen or heard.

And he succeeds. On Kalmuk, he is joined by percussionists Abdissa Assefa and Samuli Kosminen and Tapiola Sinfonietta. Maybe it is chamber music, but of very unusual kind. Psychedelic, spontaneous, repetitive, endless, mesmerising. My kind of music.

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