Hello, as that extremely nasty creep proves he will do anything to retain power , his minions have told him that minimizing places where one can vote may not be enough as postal voting will be the preferred alternative certainly in times of Covid 19, what to do ? I know discredit the postal service, after all this kinda voting has been going on for 100 years , the russians must have undermined it by now, really this guy is batshit crazy and will do ANYthing to retain power, his fans are just as crazy and seem to have lost the capacity of logic reasoning. Coming up a 100 days where the world is imminent danger, not of Covid but of a madman the feeble-minded US citizens voted for president.
Today's Artist is a musician and composer has never settled for the traditional role of a pop artist. He is known as a productive musician whose work lies beyond current trends, and also as a performer who combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in an original way.........N Joy
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Jimi Tenor is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and producer. Since 1994, the Finnish native's work had ranged across the modern music genre spectrum. Though he began recording with Jimi Tenor & His Shamans in the '80s, his solo career in electronic dance music with Sähkömies -- techno to be precise -- in 1994, put him on the international map. His sound has continued to evolve, embracing numerous strains of jazz (he's a world-class baritone and tenor saxophonist and flutist) and African music traditions. He has recorded and produced funk and neo soul with Nicole Willis, global jazz with Abdissa Assefa and Tony Allen, 21st century Afrobeat with Berlin's Kabu Kabu, and a dub/metal/funk fusion outing with Hjálmar, Iceland's premier reggae outfit. He credits influences such as Barry White, Isaac Hayes, and '70s B-movie and blaxploitation soundtracks for his musical career. With 1997's Intervision, he was already experimenting with jazz-funk. 2004's Beyond the Stars, recorded in collaboration with members of the Five Corners Quintet (including Timo Lassy and Jukka Escola) and pioneers the boundary-dissolving sound of post-bop jazz melded to soul and house music. He commenced a long collaborative relationship with Kabu Kabu on the jazz-funk outing Joystone in 2007. They have continued to collaborate on occasion. Two years later, he and Allen cut Inspiration Information for Strut, wedding Afrobeat and modern jazz. In 2013, Tenor collaborated with the avant-jazz big band UMO on Mysterium Magnum, issued a progressive rock offering with Tenors of Kalma for 2015's Electric Willow, and in 2020 made a full return to electronic music with Metamorpha.
Jimi Tenor was born in 1965 as Lassi O. T. Lehto in Lahti, Finland. The resemblance to the youngest member of The Osmonds, Little Jimmy Osmond, earned him his nickname of Jimi in the early '70s.Just like his older brother Marko, Jimi had a passion for music. He studied for many years at a music institute and can play flute, piano and saxophone; his skills were further implemented by his work experience as the saxophone player for various bands. At 16 he was the youngest member of Pallosalama (Thunderball), an orchestra which used to tour Finland with a sort of Saturday night dance shows for older people. This act was very popular then and also appeared on the Syksyn Sävel (Melody of Autumn), a song contest on Finnish Television. Later on he was part of the Pop-Rock group Himo (Lust) as a saxophone and keyboards player. In 1986 the band gained some success in the Finnish Rock Championships and released a self-titled album along with a few singles on the Amulet and Cityboy labels. Tenor was also responsible for the music and lyrics of a couple of the band's songs.
Other groups in which Jimi was involved in the mid-80s include The Cherry Pickers, Iloinen Poika Milloin (Happy Boy When) - a band founded by his brother - and... Shaman!
Jimi Tenor and His Shamans were founded during 1986; this new project was an experimental evolution of the more ordinary Rock band Shaman. At the time, Tenor had recently discovered the Industrial sound of Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Dept. The group consisted of Ilkka Mattila (guitar), Toni Kuusisto (bass) Niklas Häggblom (trumpet), and Enver Hoxha (real name Hannu Mäkelä, atonal alt bass), with Tero Kling playing drums as an added member. Jimi was the lead singer, played tenor saxophone and - just like all the other members of the band - banged on empty oil barrels, a trademark of their sound both in studio and live.
Matti Knaapi, a graphic designer and inventor, allowed the band to embrace a more experimental sound helping Jimi to create special equipment in the form of self-built musical instruments bearing names like Vera (an automatic trombone), Sirkka (a man-sized mechanical drum machine), Melukone (a noise machine) and The Liberace (a peculiar-looking stainless steel object which is hard to describe).
In the late '80s, Tenor moved to New York, where he worked as a tourist photographer at the Empire State Building. He finally hooked up with Sähkö after receiving a copy of a solo recording by Mika Vainio (of Pan Sonic and Ø). Impressed with the label's openness to experimentalism (Sähkö had previously been known as something of the muso's minimalist techno label), Tenor sent along some tapes and landed a recording contract, releasing his debut, Sahkomies, in 1994. While in New York he also recorded with Khan/4E's Can Oral (under the name Bizz O.D.), releasing the "Traffic" single on Ozon in 1995. Tenor returned to Finland in 1995 to film a documentary of Sähkö (funded, oddly enough, by a government grant) and has remained there since, Tenor gained the attention of influential Sheffield label Warp after releasing the full-length Europa in 1996, leading to a recording deal and reissue plans for some of Tenor's Sähkö releases. Warp featured the previously unavailable Tenor cut "Downtown" on their Blechsdottir label comp and released the 7"/CD single "Can't Stay with You Baby" a few months later, with two additional singles appearing in early 1997.releasing Europa in 1996 and securing licensing and recording arrangements with Warp. The full-length Intervision was released in 1997, followed two years later by Organism.
After the release of Out of Nowhere in 2000, Tenor and Sähkö parted ways with Warp. The saxophonist collaborated with his musical instrument-designing partner Matti Knaapi, drummer Edward Vesala, DJ/producer Jimi Sumen, and harpist Iro Haarla, on the experimental album City Of Women, cut at Vesala's home studio. Unfortunately, Vesala died before it was released. Tenor's sixth full-length, Utopian Dream, an overtly solo electronics record, still received import distribution. Tenor was performing with a large band for 2004's Beyond the Stars, distributed widely through Kitty-Yo, and 2007's Joystone with his backing unit Kabu Kabu. The combination also paired for 2009's 4th Dimension. In 2010, Tenor and Afro-beat drum legend Tony Allen collaborated on a volume in Strut's excellent Inspiration Information series. Ifetune, a collaboration with Ethiopian percussionist Abdissa "Mamba" Assefa, appeared in 2011. In February of 2012, the first exhibition of Tenor's photographs was shown at the Kingi Kongi Gallery in Helsinki, followed by his first feature film, Sähkö, which debuted in Berlin. He capped the eventful year by releasing The Mystery of Aether with Kabu Kabu for Kindred Spirits.
Tenor recorded the experimental Dub of Doom with Icelandic reggae band Hjálmar in 2013, as well as the experimental Exocosmos with Lassi Lehto's global Imposter Orchestra. He and Nicole Willis co-produced Finnish band Haunted by Hallucinations' self-titled debut album, and he played on Masterstone by Lehto's Flat Earth Society.
His long association with vanguard saxophonist Kalle Kalima and drummer Joonas Rippa in the Tenors of Kalma resulted in the album Electric Willow, which was issued by Enja's Yellowbird imprint in 2015, the same year as his collaboration with UMO Jazz Orchestra on the 12-track Mysterium Magnum from Herakles. The following year, the label released his full-length spiritual jazz- cum-Afrobeat set Saxentric. Two collaborative EPs were issued in 2017, first, Big Fantasy (For Me) with Nicole Willis and Jonathan Maron in March, followed by Sleepover with Freestyle Man in November. In 2018, Tenor issued Order of Nothingness an exercise in global soul-jazz and funk and played a classifiable gig with Tony Allen's band at the OTO Live Series, issued as an album by Moog Recordings. In 2019, City of Women, Vol. 2 with Vesala, Haarla, Sumen, and Knaapi was issued, consisting of material cut in 2000. In early 2020, Tenor issued Metamorpha on BubbleTease Communications. Written and recorded with bassist/ house music producer Maurice Fulton, the album marked a solid return to dance music with jazzy overtones; all instruments were performed by the duo. In March, Bureau B issued the double-length compilation Ny, Hel, Barca, that collected 20 tracks from Tenor's first six albums, between 1994 and 2001.
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Jimi puts Funk, Disco, Jazz, Blaxploitation, Easy-Listening into his digital blender, and the result is a very entertaining, tasty longdrink. Amazing, this album!
As an opener, "Total Devastation" is slightly devastating, not in a positive meaning; and the album also faces a drop-down by "Xinotepe Heat" and "Muchmo." But what is left is very good. "Year of the Apocalypse" was a sort of contemporary hit in 1999, and though the lyrical idea is nothing but outdated, the song still sounds nice. However, "Love and Work" was my favourite song back then (actually in 2000, when I came to know the album) and that remains. "Serious Love", "My Mind", "Sleep", "Beach Boy" and "City Sleeps" all sound fine. After all, Organism is not a masterpiece, the impression may surpass its actual quality, but still... the album is quite great.
Jimi Tenor - Organism (flac 297mb)
01 Total Devastation 5:18
02 Serious Love 3:50
03 My Mind 5:31
04 Love and Work 3:11
05 Sleep 5:14
06 Xinotepe 6:05
07 Muchmo 4:57
08 Beach Boy 4:09
09 Year of the Apocalypse 6:54
10 City Sleeps 4:37
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This postmodern project is a cocktail of most heterogeneous ingredients, Soul, Funk, Jazz, contemporary orchestral music - Tenor dares, and he largely wins. It's as if the wishful thinking of someone stoned in the late seventies had suddenly come true. The album was recorded in Poland in autumn 1999 and we can expect it to be somewhat different from Jimi's previous work as it is done with a big orchestra. "I believe he got to witness many of his dreams fulfilled in having worked with the orchestra. Many thanks to them!" says Nicole Willis. Rehearsals took place in Lodz with the local opera house orchestra. "It seemed to be their first pop music experience, to which they had assorted reactions. The percussionist was entertaining as he got into the groove." They rehearsed with the orchestra for three days, ten hours a day with breaks of course. "They loved to feed you! There was quite a scene when we returned some sandwiches which they thought we were rejecting to the cafe! The kitchen staff even had a word with the leader of the orchestra about it..."
The talent of the respected Indian musician Baluji Shrivastav will also be heard on the album. He played tabla, sitar and even 'rapped' and was, according to Nicole, "Quite a Gentleman." After the gruelling rehearsals, the actual recording took place at Polskie Radio, Warsaw and was concluded with a raucous vodka party with conductor Tadeusz Kozlowski and orchestra director Marcin Krzynowski. "It was quite a blast!" Ilkka Mattila, who has been working with Jimi Tenor since the Shamans days, joined them to record the guitar parts for the album and Wanda Pittman, Nicole and Jimi did some backing vocals. Studio work continued after the Warp 10th anniversary show in London at Mute studios. Among the guests were drummers Caroline Boaden from previous Jimi Tenor recordings and Mikey Wilson of Texas, and guitarist Chris Dawkins of LSK. The recording was done by Kevin Paul who also supplied mixes for the single release 'Spell'.
Instead of conducting the 55-piece orchestra at his disposal through grandiose versions of his tunes, Tenor composed entirely new material. The slinky "Hypnotic Drugstore" offers a glimpse at trademark Tenor funk, but the rest of the album sees him using his resources to explore adventurous, and often bizarre, territory.
Jimi Tenor - Out Of Nowhere (flac 273mb)
01 Out of Nowhere 3:54
02 Hypnotic Drugstore 5:43
03 Paint the Stars 5:52
04 Pylon 2:06
05 Blood on Borscht 5:03
06 Backbone of Night 2:25
07 Spell 5:21
08 Better Than Ever 4:49
09 Night in Loimaa 4:58
10 Call of the Wild 6:10
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Languid, intriguing collage of styles (free jazz, funk, soul, acid); borders on the sublime at times, though sometimes falls short. "Moonfolks" is one of the best here...Finnish sax wonder Jimi Tenor's 2001 album Utopian Dream is finally available digitally. Trippy electronics and robotic voices meet lush and impressive instrumentation. 'Moonfolks' features high-pitched scat vocals and ironic coffee-table organ jazz, while the vibrant flute of 'New World' and 'Neumatico Rojo' is wholly invigorating. Coming off like the soundtrack to a film you wish you've seen, it's a thrilling trip into this singular artist's always intriguing mind state, coming together at a point where irony, sincerity and plain old musicianship collide.
Great for a gentle summer's afternoon listen...
Jimi Tenor - Utopian Dream (flac 293mb)
01 Utopian Dream 4:53
02 Moonfolks 5:02
03 New World 3:17
04 Natural Cosmic Relief 3:39
05 Neumatico Rojo 3:55
06 Gentle Afternoon 3:00
07 Better Than Ever 4:32
08 Paint the Stars 3:15
09 24-Hour Madness 4:08
10 Grilli-iloa (Barbecue Pleasure) 2:52
11 Sinking Ship 1:41
12 Mammon 3:40
13 Väinä Boy 4:19
14 Bacon Alive 1:15
15 Paradise Can Wait 5:02
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Neither hard rock nor metal from Finland, for a change! Cosmic acid funk-jazz from Finland. If that doesn’t sound strange enough for you, Jimi Tenor dishes out cosmic acid funk-jazz from another dimension. The curious mix of smooth 1990s funk-pop (“Spending time”), psychedelic fuzz guitars (“Tapiola”) and jazzy textures works (“Expatriot”).
He may have just moved back to his hometown of Lahti, Finland after years of global living, but Jimi Tenor is far from his days of the mid-’80s making noisecore with a bunch of local friends. His latest, which is the follow-up to his 2002 genre-spanning milestone, Higher Planes, is a gleeful horn-and-choral studded romp in ’70s era jazz and the desire to resurrect awe towards space. With majestic and approachable horn sections alongside a charmingly hearty co-ed choir, Tenor has painstakingly crafted an album that is both musically reflective and relevant today. His darling (and nearly kitsch) fascination with space themes is illustrated through song titles, lyrics, recording treatments and effects ("Take Off,” "Miracles”). Tenor disallows the space theme to become juvenile by basing his complex and mature compositions in orchestral-sounding instrumentals and sturdy lyrics. Attention to the recording process is as integral as the songs themselves; it comes through and blankets the amazing musicianship of the Berlin-based, Afrobeat band, Rhythm Taxi, and the Finnish choir Adventur, with a sense of timelessness.
Play at a cocktail party where magic mushrooms are also a main ingredient…Jimi gives us a great funky album, which effortless beats most nowadays funky or progressive productions.
Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes (flac 347mb)
01 Cosmic Dive 3:50
02 Higher Planes 3:13
03 Trumpcard 3:45
04 Good Day 4:51
05 Black Hole 4:16
06 Dirty Jimi 5:12
07 Tapiola 4:54
08 Spending Time 4:50
09 Let the Music 3:56
10 Expatriot 3:41
11 Nuclear Fusion 5:43
12 Stargazing 4:41
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Today's Artist is a musician and composer has never settled for the traditional role of a pop artist. He is known as a productive musician whose work lies beyond current trends, and also as a performer who combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in an original way.........N Joy
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Jimi Tenor is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and producer. Since 1994, the Finnish native's work had ranged across the modern music genre spectrum. Though he began recording with Jimi Tenor & His Shamans in the '80s, his solo career in electronic dance music with Sähkömies -- techno to be precise -- in 1994, put him on the international map. His sound has continued to evolve, embracing numerous strains of jazz (he's a world-class baritone and tenor saxophonist and flutist) and African music traditions. He has recorded and produced funk and neo soul with Nicole Willis, global jazz with Abdissa Assefa and Tony Allen, 21st century Afrobeat with Berlin's Kabu Kabu, and a dub/metal/funk fusion outing with Hjálmar, Iceland's premier reggae outfit. He credits influences such as Barry White, Isaac Hayes, and '70s B-movie and blaxploitation soundtracks for his musical career. With 1997's Intervision, he was already experimenting with jazz-funk. 2004's Beyond the Stars, recorded in collaboration with members of the Five Corners Quintet (including Timo Lassy and Jukka Escola) and pioneers the boundary-dissolving sound of post-bop jazz melded to soul and house music. He commenced a long collaborative relationship with Kabu Kabu on the jazz-funk outing Joystone in 2007. They have continued to collaborate on occasion. Two years later, he and Allen cut Inspiration Information for Strut, wedding Afrobeat and modern jazz. In 2013, Tenor collaborated with the avant-jazz big band UMO on Mysterium Magnum, issued a progressive rock offering with Tenors of Kalma for 2015's Electric Willow, and in 2020 made a full return to electronic music with Metamorpha.
Jimi Tenor was born in 1965 as Lassi O. T. Lehto in Lahti, Finland. The resemblance to the youngest member of The Osmonds, Little Jimmy Osmond, earned him his nickname of Jimi in the early '70s.Just like his older brother Marko, Jimi had a passion for music. He studied for many years at a music institute and can play flute, piano and saxophone; his skills were further implemented by his work experience as the saxophone player for various bands. At 16 he was the youngest member of Pallosalama (Thunderball), an orchestra which used to tour Finland with a sort of Saturday night dance shows for older people. This act was very popular then and also appeared on the Syksyn Sävel (Melody of Autumn), a song contest on Finnish Television. Later on he was part of the Pop-Rock group Himo (Lust) as a saxophone and keyboards player. In 1986 the band gained some success in the Finnish Rock Championships and released a self-titled album along with a few singles on the Amulet and Cityboy labels. Tenor was also responsible for the music and lyrics of a couple of the band's songs.
Other groups in which Jimi was involved in the mid-80s include The Cherry Pickers, Iloinen Poika Milloin (Happy Boy When) - a band founded by his brother - and... Shaman!
Jimi Tenor and His Shamans were founded during 1986; this new project was an experimental evolution of the more ordinary Rock band Shaman. At the time, Tenor had recently discovered the Industrial sound of Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Dept. The group consisted of Ilkka Mattila (guitar), Toni Kuusisto (bass) Niklas Häggblom (trumpet), and Enver Hoxha (real name Hannu Mäkelä, atonal alt bass), with Tero Kling playing drums as an added member. Jimi was the lead singer, played tenor saxophone and - just like all the other members of the band - banged on empty oil barrels, a trademark of their sound both in studio and live.
Matti Knaapi, a graphic designer and inventor, allowed the band to embrace a more experimental sound helping Jimi to create special equipment in the form of self-built musical instruments bearing names like Vera (an automatic trombone), Sirkka (a man-sized mechanical drum machine), Melukone (a noise machine) and The Liberace (a peculiar-looking stainless steel object which is hard to describe).
In the late '80s, Tenor moved to New York, where he worked as a tourist photographer at the Empire State Building. He finally hooked up with Sähkö after receiving a copy of a solo recording by Mika Vainio (of Pan Sonic and Ø). Impressed with the label's openness to experimentalism (Sähkö had previously been known as something of the muso's minimalist techno label), Tenor sent along some tapes and landed a recording contract, releasing his debut, Sahkomies, in 1994. While in New York he also recorded with Khan/4E's Can Oral (under the name Bizz O.D.), releasing the "Traffic" single on Ozon in 1995. Tenor returned to Finland in 1995 to film a documentary of Sähkö (funded, oddly enough, by a government grant) and has remained there since, Tenor gained the attention of influential Sheffield label Warp after releasing the full-length Europa in 1996, leading to a recording deal and reissue plans for some of Tenor's Sähkö releases. Warp featured the previously unavailable Tenor cut "Downtown" on their Blechsdottir label comp and released the 7"/CD single "Can't Stay with You Baby" a few months later, with two additional singles appearing in early 1997.releasing Europa in 1996 and securing licensing and recording arrangements with Warp. The full-length Intervision was released in 1997, followed two years later by Organism.
After the release of Out of Nowhere in 2000, Tenor and Sähkö parted ways with Warp. The saxophonist collaborated with his musical instrument-designing partner Matti Knaapi, drummer Edward Vesala, DJ/producer Jimi Sumen, and harpist Iro Haarla, on the experimental album City Of Women, cut at Vesala's home studio. Unfortunately, Vesala died before it was released. Tenor's sixth full-length, Utopian Dream, an overtly solo electronics record, still received import distribution. Tenor was performing with a large band for 2004's Beyond the Stars, distributed widely through Kitty-Yo, and 2007's Joystone with his backing unit Kabu Kabu. The combination also paired for 2009's 4th Dimension. In 2010, Tenor and Afro-beat drum legend Tony Allen collaborated on a volume in Strut's excellent Inspiration Information series. Ifetune, a collaboration with Ethiopian percussionist Abdissa "Mamba" Assefa, appeared in 2011. In February of 2012, the first exhibition of Tenor's photographs was shown at the Kingi Kongi Gallery in Helsinki, followed by his first feature film, Sähkö, which debuted in Berlin. He capped the eventful year by releasing The Mystery of Aether with Kabu Kabu for Kindred Spirits.
Tenor recorded the experimental Dub of Doom with Icelandic reggae band Hjálmar in 2013, as well as the experimental Exocosmos with Lassi Lehto's global Imposter Orchestra. He and Nicole Willis co-produced Finnish band Haunted by Hallucinations' self-titled debut album, and he played on Masterstone by Lehto's Flat Earth Society.
His long association with vanguard saxophonist Kalle Kalima and drummer Joonas Rippa in the Tenors of Kalma resulted in the album Electric Willow, which was issued by Enja's Yellowbird imprint in 2015, the same year as his collaboration with UMO Jazz Orchestra on the 12-track Mysterium Magnum from Herakles. The following year, the label released his full-length spiritual jazz- cum-Afrobeat set Saxentric. Two collaborative EPs were issued in 2017, first, Big Fantasy (For Me) with Nicole Willis and Jonathan Maron in March, followed by Sleepover with Freestyle Man in November. In 2018, Tenor issued Order of Nothingness an exercise in global soul-jazz and funk and played a classifiable gig with Tony Allen's band at the OTO Live Series, issued as an album by Moog Recordings. In 2019, City of Women, Vol. 2 with Vesala, Haarla, Sumen, and Knaapi was issued, consisting of material cut in 2000. In early 2020, Tenor issued Metamorpha on BubbleTease Communications. Written and recorded with bassist/ house music producer Maurice Fulton, the album marked a solid return to dance music with jazzy overtones; all instruments were performed by the duo. In March, Bureau B issued the double-length compilation Ny, Hel, Barca, that collected 20 tracks from Tenor's first six albums, between 1994 and 2001.
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Jimi puts Funk, Disco, Jazz, Blaxploitation, Easy-Listening into his digital blender, and the result is a very entertaining, tasty longdrink. Amazing, this album!
As an opener, "Total Devastation" is slightly devastating, not in a positive meaning; and the album also faces a drop-down by "Xinotepe Heat" and "Muchmo." But what is left is very good. "Year of the Apocalypse" was a sort of contemporary hit in 1999, and though the lyrical idea is nothing but outdated, the song still sounds nice. However, "Love and Work" was my favourite song back then (actually in 2000, when I came to know the album) and that remains. "Serious Love", "My Mind", "Sleep", "Beach Boy" and "City Sleeps" all sound fine. After all, Organism is not a masterpiece, the impression may surpass its actual quality, but still... the album is quite great.
Jimi Tenor - Organism (flac 297mb)
01 Total Devastation 5:18
02 Serious Love 3:50
03 My Mind 5:31
04 Love and Work 3:11
05 Sleep 5:14
06 Xinotepe 6:05
07 Muchmo 4:57
08 Beach Boy 4:09
09 Year of the Apocalypse 6:54
10 City Sleeps 4:37
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This postmodern project is a cocktail of most heterogeneous ingredients, Soul, Funk, Jazz, contemporary orchestral music - Tenor dares, and he largely wins. It's as if the wishful thinking of someone stoned in the late seventies had suddenly come true. The album was recorded in Poland in autumn 1999 and we can expect it to be somewhat different from Jimi's previous work as it is done with a big orchestra. "I believe he got to witness many of his dreams fulfilled in having worked with the orchestra. Many thanks to them!" says Nicole Willis. Rehearsals took place in Lodz with the local opera house orchestra. "It seemed to be their first pop music experience, to which they had assorted reactions. The percussionist was entertaining as he got into the groove." They rehearsed with the orchestra for three days, ten hours a day with breaks of course. "They loved to feed you! There was quite a scene when we returned some sandwiches which they thought we were rejecting to the cafe! The kitchen staff even had a word with the leader of the orchestra about it..."
The talent of the respected Indian musician Baluji Shrivastav will also be heard on the album. He played tabla, sitar and even 'rapped' and was, according to Nicole, "Quite a Gentleman." After the gruelling rehearsals, the actual recording took place at Polskie Radio, Warsaw and was concluded with a raucous vodka party with conductor Tadeusz Kozlowski and orchestra director Marcin Krzynowski. "It was quite a blast!" Ilkka Mattila, who has been working with Jimi Tenor since the Shamans days, joined them to record the guitar parts for the album and Wanda Pittman, Nicole and Jimi did some backing vocals. Studio work continued after the Warp 10th anniversary show in London at Mute studios. Among the guests were drummers Caroline Boaden from previous Jimi Tenor recordings and Mikey Wilson of Texas, and guitarist Chris Dawkins of LSK. The recording was done by Kevin Paul who also supplied mixes for the single release 'Spell'.
Instead of conducting the 55-piece orchestra at his disposal through grandiose versions of his tunes, Tenor composed entirely new material. The slinky "Hypnotic Drugstore" offers a glimpse at trademark Tenor funk, but the rest of the album sees him using his resources to explore adventurous, and often bizarre, territory.
Jimi Tenor - Out Of Nowhere (flac 273mb)
01 Out of Nowhere 3:54
02 Hypnotic Drugstore 5:43
03 Paint the Stars 5:52
04 Pylon 2:06
05 Blood on Borscht 5:03
06 Backbone of Night 2:25
07 Spell 5:21
08 Better Than Ever 4:49
09 Night in Loimaa 4:58
10 Call of the Wild 6:10
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Languid, intriguing collage of styles (free jazz, funk, soul, acid); borders on the sublime at times, though sometimes falls short. "Moonfolks" is one of the best here...Finnish sax wonder Jimi Tenor's 2001 album Utopian Dream is finally available digitally. Trippy electronics and robotic voices meet lush and impressive instrumentation. 'Moonfolks' features high-pitched scat vocals and ironic coffee-table organ jazz, while the vibrant flute of 'New World' and 'Neumatico Rojo' is wholly invigorating. Coming off like the soundtrack to a film you wish you've seen, it's a thrilling trip into this singular artist's always intriguing mind state, coming together at a point where irony, sincerity and plain old musicianship collide.
Great for a gentle summer's afternoon listen...
Jimi Tenor - Utopian Dream (flac 293mb)
01 Utopian Dream 4:53
02 Moonfolks 5:02
03 New World 3:17
04 Natural Cosmic Relief 3:39
05 Neumatico Rojo 3:55
06 Gentle Afternoon 3:00
07 Better Than Ever 4:32
08 Paint the Stars 3:15
09 24-Hour Madness 4:08
10 Grilli-iloa (Barbecue Pleasure) 2:52
11 Sinking Ship 1:41
12 Mammon 3:40
13 Väinä Boy 4:19
14 Bacon Alive 1:15
15 Paradise Can Wait 5:02
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Neither hard rock nor metal from Finland, for a change! Cosmic acid funk-jazz from Finland. If that doesn’t sound strange enough for you, Jimi Tenor dishes out cosmic acid funk-jazz from another dimension. The curious mix of smooth 1990s funk-pop (“Spending time”), psychedelic fuzz guitars (“Tapiola”) and jazzy textures works (“Expatriot”).
He may have just moved back to his hometown of Lahti, Finland after years of global living, but Jimi Tenor is far from his days of the mid-’80s making noisecore with a bunch of local friends. His latest, which is the follow-up to his 2002 genre-spanning milestone, Higher Planes, is a gleeful horn-and-choral studded romp in ’70s era jazz and the desire to resurrect awe towards space. With majestic and approachable horn sections alongside a charmingly hearty co-ed choir, Tenor has painstakingly crafted an album that is both musically reflective and relevant today. His darling (and nearly kitsch) fascination with space themes is illustrated through song titles, lyrics, recording treatments and effects ("Take Off,” "Miracles”). Tenor disallows the space theme to become juvenile by basing his complex and mature compositions in orchestral-sounding instrumentals and sturdy lyrics. Attention to the recording process is as integral as the songs themselves; it comes through and blankets the amazing musicianship of the Berlin-based, Afrobeat band, Rhythm Taxi, and the Finnish choir Adventur, with a sense of timelessness.
Play at a cocktail party where magic mushrooms are also a main ingredient…Jimi gives us a great funky album, which effortless beats most nowadays funky or progressive productions.
Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes (flac 347mb)
01 Cosmic Dive 3:50
02 Higher Planes 3:13
03 Trumpcard 3:45
04 Good Day 4:51
05 Black Hole 4:16
06 Dirty Jimi 5:12
07 Tapiola 4:54
08 Spending Time 4:50
09 Let the Music 3:56
10 Expatriot 3:41
11 Nuclear Fusion 5:43
12 Stargazing 4:41
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