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Musician and composer Jimi Tenor 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.
Besides being a professional musician for almost 20 years, Jimi Tenor (born Lassi Lehto, 1965, Lahti, Finland) has also practised photography, directed short films and designed clothes and musical instruments. The electro-mechanic instruments built by Jimi Tenor and designer Matti Knaapi are not intended to be pieces of art on display at exhibitions, though have sometimes ended up as such. They emerge from musical needs, and are mainly made of scrap material. The instruments have been used at full blast during recording and on stage, so some of them have been wrecked.
Tenor’s music, along with his design and technical innovations, springs from experimental rock. His first recording band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans (1986-1992) was influenced by the early 80’s industrial rock, where instruments were made out of scrap metal and plastic. Later during the 90’s Tenor moved first towards electronic music, but soon got closer to his roots: 60’s and 70’s jazz, psychedelic soul and African funk.
Although Tenor spent all of the 90’s in Berlin, New York, London and Barcelona, his artistic approach was typically Finnish: technically practical, but saturated with black humour and a national romantic tone.
Besides being a professional musician for almost 20 years, Jimi Tenor (born Lassi Lehto, 1965, Lahti, Finland) has also practised photography, directed short films and designed clothes and musical instruments. The electro-mechanic instruments built by Jimi Tenor and designer Matti Knaapi are not intended to be pieces of art on display at exhibitions, though have sometimes ended up as such. They emerge from musical needs, and are mainly made of scrap material. The instruments have been used at full blast during recording and on stage, so some of them have been wrecked.
Tenor’s music, along with his design and technical innovations, springs from experimental rock. His first recording band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans (1986-1992) was influenced by the early 80’s industrial rock, where instruments were made out of scrap metal and plastic. Later during the 90’s Tenor moved first towards electronic music, but soon got closer to his roots: 60’s and 70’s jazz, psychedelic soul and African funk.
Although Tenor spent all of the 90’s in Berlin, New York, London and Barcelona, his artistic approach was typically Finnish: technically practical, but saturated with black humour and a national romantic tone.
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Beyond the Stars
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Utopian Dream
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Organism
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Shoutbox
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Alec_Trevelyan wrote:
Anyone have Verena EP to share?
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t-j-s wrote:
"Sirens of Salo", how appropriate. :) Anyway, one of the coolest musicians from Finland, IMO.
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sunsamba wrote:
my mind is an excellent song
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exprof wrote:
In Leuven http://concerts-review.over-blog.com/article-31829726.html
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SugarFactoryAms wrote:
See you at Sugar Jimi, we are so looking forward!!!
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ruiagnelo wrote:
Midsummers Night, anyone?
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joiletblog wrote:
Polish support his newest LP: http://joilet.blox.pl/2009/03/Znane-wymiary-Tenora.html - Polish; http://joilet.blox.pl/2009/03/Tenor-as-known-as-his-dims.html - English; greets
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paola_tess wrote:
love him since legendary "Ptuch" magazine wrote about him in 1996 ;)
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oluuh wrote:
great show in gdansk!
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GeographyI wrote:
Nice haircut :>
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crystaltrips wrote:
Genuinely one of my favorite musicians ever. The breadth and depth of his recorded catalogue is immense, eclectic, inspired, eccentric and FUN. Not to mention as psychedelic as an 8ft mushroom shrieking on an alto sax through a leslie cabinet. Keep on, Jim!
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electricity05 wrote:
This is so Human League, Sound of the crowd.
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topi65 wrote:
You taken me baby!
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SecretsSet-up wrote:
geeze, that pierret boulez-remix is BEYOND.
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ultra_silence wrote:
I wanna go to Strawberry Place.
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soulkrates wrote:
yeses!
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naoTKO wrote:
ahhh just noticed the non Warp stuff. great!
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ludwigthesecond wrote:
Take Me Baby <3
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spinline wrote:
Jimi Tenor - Outta Space!!!
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Elvika wrote:
http://www.lastfm.se/group/Finnish+Tango+%28Suomalainen+Tango%3D%29
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New album "Joystone" out April 10 2007
17 Mar 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/myjimitenor
Hey all, the new album is out soon! Underground afrobaltic jazz, recorded in a fallout shelter in Helsinki under Didier´s eagle eye. Featuring Nicholas Addo-Nettey, Kalle Kalima, Timo Lassy, Ekow Ala.. …
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