Kimmo Pohjonen

Is the accordion a percussion instrument? Maybe not by itself, but in the gifted hands of Kimmo Pohjonen it becomes one. Among other things, because don't pin the Finn down to anything. For about thirty years he has shown what his instrument can do, how immensely broad the palette of sounds and colours is, in how many different genres the accordion fits.

Pohjonen's music is energetic and very raw, a quality that he further emphasizes with the almost beastly throat sounds with which he often accompanies his virtuoso playing. As soon as Pohjonen enters the stage with his imposing appearance and attitude, you know that something is about to happen. Forget how you knew the accordion, because that is not how the instrument sounds with him for a moment. No, you enter a unique, musical universe in which amazing, new worlds are created time and again.

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Kimmo Pohjonen - accordion, voice, effects