Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen
“Kimmo Pohjonen is not just one of the world’s finest accordion players, he’s a composer of panoramic vision, a consummate stage performer, producer and innovator. We’ve known all this for a long time but with UNIKO his importance in the contemporary music world is now unquestionable…. [Pohjonen’s] trademark depth of sound and harmonies lead so naturally towards the Kronos sound on an aural journey that takes the listener on a rare adventure both poignant and chilling.”
UNIKO is the collaboration between the Kronos Quartet and Finnish duo Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen. Commissioned by Kronos, UNIKO received its world premiere at the Helsinki Festival in 2004, with additional performances in Moscow, Molde (Norway), and in New York at the 2007 BAM NEXT WAVE Festival. UNIKO highlights Pohjonen’s electrified and MIDI-fied accordion with Kosminen’s electronic percussion devices which reproduce his own accordion samples and his samples of Kronos’ instruments.
SELECT CREDITS
Kimmo Pohjonen, accordion, voice
Samuli Kosminen, string and accordion samples, programming
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
All music composed by Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen
Produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Uniko
Released by Ondine
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