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Kimmo Pohjonen

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Kimmo Pohjonen (born August 16, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist who is known for his avant-garde and experimental work with his custom-made electrified and modified instrument. [1]

30 relations: Accordion, Arto Järvelä, Astor Piazzolla, Bandoneon, Buenos Aires, Cajuns, David Bowie, Demon Music Group, Edea (musical group), Experimental music, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Flaco Jiménez, Helsinki, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Kronos Quartet, KTU (band), Laurie Anderson, Maria Kalaniemi, Meltdown (festival), Music of Finland, Nuevo tango, Pat Mastelotto, Queen Ida, Shamanism, Sibelius Academy, South by Southwest, Trey Gunn, Uniko, Värttinä.

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Arto Järvelä

Arto Järvelä (born in 1964 in Hattula, Finland) is a Finnish fiddler and composer.

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Astor Piazzolla

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger.

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Bandoneon

The bandoneon (or bandonion, bandoneón) is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina, Uruguay, and Lithuania.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Cajuns

The Cajuns (Louisiana les Cadiens), also known as Acadians (Louisiana les Acadiens) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and in The Maritimes as well as Québec consisting in part of the descendants of the original Acadian exiles—French-speakers from Acadia (L'Acadie) in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Demon Music Group

Demon Records is a British record label, founded in 1980 by former United Artists A&R executive Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera, who had previously started Stiff Records.

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Edea (musical group)

Edea is a Finnish musical group.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Festival Internacional Cervantino

-The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), popularly known as El Cervantino, takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico.

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Flaco Jiménez

Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is a Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music accordionist and singer from San Antonio, Texas.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

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KTU (band)

KTU (pronounced K2) is a progressive/experimental musical supergroup.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Maria Kalaniemi

Maria Kalaniemi (born May 27, 1964 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish accordionist.

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Meltdown (festival)

Meltdown is an annual festival, held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film.

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Music of Finland

The music of Finland can be roughly divided into the categories of folk music, classical and contemporary art music, and contemporary popular music.

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Nuevo tango

Nuevo tango is either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional tango music, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s.

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Pat Mastelotto

Lee Patrick Mastelotto (born September 10, 1955) is an American rock drummer and record producer who has worked most notably with Mr. Mister and King Crimson, among many others (XTC, the Rembrandts).

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Queen Ida

Ida Lewis "Queen Ida" Guillory (born January 15, 1929) is a Louisiana Creole accordionist.

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Shamanism

Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

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Sibelius Academy

The Sibelius Academy (Taideyliopisto Sibelius-Akatemia, Konstuniversitetets Sibelius-Akademi) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Trey Gunn

Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.

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Uniko

Uniko is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen.The entire work was composed by Finnish artists / composers Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen Uniko, which was commissioned by the quartet in 2003, premiered in 2004 and was also performed in 2007 in New York City at the BAM NEXT WAVE festival.

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Värttinä

Värttinä (meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmo_Pohjonen

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