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:::: Artist :::::::::::[ Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu ]::::
:::: Album :::::::::::[ Joystone ]::::
:::: Record co ::::::::[ Ubiquity / Sahko / Puu Records PUU-34CD ]::::
:::: Style ::::::::::::[ Jazz ]::::
:::: Releasedate ::::::[ 12.4.2007 ]::::
:::: Tracks & Size ::::[ 12 tracks, a total of 85 megabytes ]::::
:::: Info & tracklist :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::
:::: 01 Anywhere Anytime :: 07:06
:::: 02 Green Grass :: 01:48
:::: 03 I Wanna Hook Up With You :: 04:19
:::: 04 Hot Baby :: 05:23
:::: 05 Bedroom Eyes :: 05:21
:::: 06 Hermetic Man :: 03:48
:::: 07 Love Is The Only God :: 05:26
:::: 08 Ariane :: 04:24
:::: 09 Smoking :: 06:12
:::: 10 Horror Water :: 04:25
:::: 11 Sunrise :: 07:56
:::: 12 Dede :: 07:22
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Total Playtime :: 63:30
:::: Additional info
Joystone is the latest musical excursion by the ever-inventive
arranger, composer and musician as well as a captivating performer
Jimi Tenor. On Joystone the super-eccentric Finn teams up with
Kabu Kabu, a trio of West-African musicians and ex-Fela Kuti sidemen
lead by Nicholas Addo Nettey. The result is an exceptionally unique
and inspired album that joins the dots between dance music, Afro-beat,
funk, and pop.
Despite its cosmic overtones Joystone was conceived in Tenors tiny
garage in the city of Lahti in Finland and recorded, mixed and
produced entirely by Didier Selin in Helsinki. Selin is the mastermind
behind the award winning 2006 album Keep Reachin Up by Tenors wife
Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators.
Adding spice to Tenors best work to date are the leading players in
the budding Finnish jazz scene including trumpeter Jukka Eskola and
saxophonist Timo Lassy. The resulting mash of Scandinavian jazz and
polyrhythmic Afro-Beat and Funk is reminis-cent of legendary
Euro-eccentrics Marc Moulin and Placebo. However, it is Tenors
captivating melodies, quirky humor, and genre-defying playfulness
that are at the forefront of Joystone.
On the lead single Sunrise, for which there is a video of Tenor and
band running around a forest, he murmurs his sources of inspiration:
Sunrise oh sunrise, my favorite time of the day. I wake up, make some
coffee. Look at the garden and start making some music. Everyday
pretty much the same, and yet so different.
Some of the highlights on Joystone are the uptempo Afro-Beat of
Hot Baby and the dark funk of Smoking. Horror Water is another
dark piece inspired perhaps by musical luminaries J Dilla and
Alice Coltrane.
Hermetic Man is an instantly recognizable Tenor song with its
loping melodic passages and subtle hints of 1970s prog jazz.
The album closes with Dede, a 7-minute opus that showcases the
halkofon, a one-of-a-kind instrument invented and built by Tenor
from sticks of wood used to heat up the Finnish sauna.
Jimi Tenor, was born as Lassi Lehto. His band Jimi Tenor And His
Shamans released its first album in 1988, with Tenors first solo
album dropping in 1994 and delivering Take Me Baby, his first big hit.
He has released albums on SΣhk÷ Recordings, Warp Records and the
Kitty-Yo label among others. He has recorded with a 55-piece
Polish Simphony Orchestra and most recently appeared on
Deutsche Grammophons Recomposed series. Curiously he has been
called the Elton John of jazz and the Barry White of Finland,
but we like to think of this mad musical genius, having fun while
searching for the missing link between Sun Ra and Fela Kuti.
Joystone finds Jimi Tenor reuniting with the legendary
SΣhk÷ Recordings, the label that kickstarted his career back in 1994.
File Under: Jimi Tenor, Electronic, Dance, Afrobeat
For Fans of: Antibalas, NOMO, Fela Kuti, Nicole Willis, Sharon Jones
:::: Notes
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