Jimi Tenor: Joystone
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- Label: Ubiquity, 2007
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.4.2007
Jimi Tenor with a cosmic new album for Sähkö/Puu. On this legendary label he released his debut release in 1994. On "Joystone", Mr. Tenor teams up with ex Fela Kuti sidemen Kabu Kabu (lead Nicholas Addo Nettey). For Fans of: Antibalas, NOMO, Fela Kuti, Nicole Willis, Sharon Jones.
"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 it's cosmic overtones Joystone was conceived in Tenor's 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 Tenor's wife Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators. Adding spice to Tenor's 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 reminiscent of legendary Euro-eccentrics Marc Moulin and Placebo. However, it is Tenor's 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 musi-cal luminaries J Dilla and Alice Coltrane.
"Hermetic Man" is an instantly recognizable Tenor song with its loping melodic passa-ges and subtle hints of 1970's 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 & His Shamans released it's first album in 1988, with Tenor's first solo album dropping in 1994 and delivering "Take Me Baby," his first big hit. He has released albums on Sähkö 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 Grammophon 's 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 Sähkö Recordings, the label that kickstarted his career back in 1994.
"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 it's cosmic overtones Joystone was conceived in Tenor's 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 Tenor's wife Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators. Adding spice to Tenor's 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 reminiscent of legendary Euro-eccentrics Marc Moulin and Placebo. However, it is Tenor's 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 musi-cal luminaries J Dilla and Alice Coltrane.
"Hermetic Man" is an instantly recognizable Tenor song with its loping melodic passa-ges and subtle hints of 1970's 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 & His Shamans released it's first album in 1988, with Tenor's first solo album dropping in 1994 and delivering "Take Me Baby," his first big hit. He has released albums on Sähkö 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 Grammophon 's 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 Sähkö Recordings, the label that kickstarted his career back in 1994.
- Tracklisting
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- 1 Anywhere, anytime
- 2 Green grass
- 3 I wanna hook up with you
- 4 Hermetic man
- 5 Hot baby
- 6 Bedroom eyes
- 7 Love is the only god
- 8 Ariane
- 9 Smoking
- 10 Horror water
- 11 Sunrise
- 12 Dede
