Shogun Kunitoki

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Shogun Kunitoki has been in existence since the late 1990s, but it wasn’t until around 2003 that they discovered their own voice. In its earliest incarnation Shogun Kunitoki featured four to six Commodore 64 computers that were used to create all sounds. Their austere approach to chiptune music gained them some notoriety, most notably a spot at Helsinki’s Avanto festival — and also attracted the attention of Fonal Records. However, after a few years the band was becoming frustrated by the restrictions of 8-bit computers, and when an electrical fault destroyed most of their equipment, things started moving. The C64s had to be replaced with something, and this lead to a period of fermentation during which Shogun Kunitoki moved away from computer-based music, and was eventually reborn as a real band with live instrumentation and a new, organic sound.

Shogun Kunitoki’s debut album, Tasankokaiku, released by Fonal in early 2006, stands as a culmination of the group’s long search for their own musical language. Tasankokaiku consists of seven instrumental compositions that retain touches of the more angular feel of their earlier, sequenced songs, but are fleshed out using a looser, semi-improvised approach made possible by the use of live keyboards. The result has been described by reviewers as fresh and unique but strangely familiar at the same time, a timeless kaleidoscope of sounds culled from five decades of electronic music, psychedelia and minimalism.
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  • Charles_Heres

    Really like that Philip Glass sound-like progression influence...

    last month
  • Julian_Iguana

    Come to Colombia

    November 2011
  • Amoide

    come to Barcelona!

    October 2011
  • mowshowitz

    What anjakarlson said.

    July 2011
  • anjakarlson

    Finland is like a huge unexplored music planet

    May 2011
  • Slightman

    Someone should donate them a keyboard with more than just five working keys

    September 2010
  • art-fag

    yum

    September 2010
  • bleed_in_beige

    I put another band unknown to me on Spotify as I often do, and while a lot of albums and bands wash over me, when 'Holvikirkko' came on I quite literally sat up and took notice. Seriously good stuff.

    April 2010
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JARSE on tour NOW!

15 May 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/shogunkunitoki

Hear ye!Things have been a bit slow in the SK camp as of late, but that is about to change, because Jari of SK is about to hit the road with his new solo project JARSE! JARSE is touring …

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