Kimmo Pohjonen & Kronos Quartet - Plasma

From UNIKO, live at Helsinki festival september 2004.
Kimmo Pohjonen official website:
www.kimmopohjonen.com/
Kronos Quartet official website:
www.kronosquartet.org/
TrackList
1. atmos (kosminen)
2. utu (pohjonen)
3. liuos (pohjonen)
4. plasma (pohjonen/kosminen)
5. sarma (pohjonen/kosminen)
6. kalma (pohjonen/kosminen)
7. emo (pohjonen/kosminen)
8. kamala (pohjonen/kosminen)
9. avara (pohjonen/kosminen)
America's most adventurous string ensemble, Kronos Quartet and Finland's groundbreaking accordion / sampling duo Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster present their concert collaboration project, Uniko.
Seeds for the project were planted in 2002 when Kronos' musical director David Harrington heard Pohjonen and Kluster recordings and approached Pohjonen with the idea of possible collaboration. Meetings in Latvia between the two parties were productive and led to first rehearsals at the Kronos space in San Francisco in spring 2003. The second set of rehearsals took place in Helsinki in February 2004. The world premiere of the collaboration occured in Helsinki on Sept 4 and 5 at the prestigious Helsinki Festival, with an additional concert in Moscow at MDM Youth Palace on September 7. The concert was performed again in Molde Jazz Festival 2005. Uniko premiered in North America on October 3,5 6, 2007, at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York..
The Kluster / Kronos project is a sonic/visual adventure to create unique and never-before-heard sounds from accordion and strings, accordion samples and string samples. Uniko was commissioned by Kronos Quartet and composed / arranged by Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen for accordion, sampler and electronic percussion, string quartet, surround sound and effects. In addition to the Pohjonen accordion and voice sounds that Kosminen samples in "normal" Kluster repertoire and reproduces via his electronic drum pads, the Kronos string sounds are sampled, processed, and looped in with the Kluster mix and the Kronos strings.
Surround sound and additional effects by sound designer Heikki Iso-Ahola are also essential elements of the Uniko work, creating a full dimensional sound world.
LIght design and video mix are by Mikki Kunttu (in the Helsinki program, video mix was by Antti Kuivalainen).
The Helsinki concerts were filmed by Finnish YLE TV and Moving Images of Austria for a one hour program, music and interview, that was broadcast on Finnish Digital TV (YLE Teema), Czech TV, South Korean TV, British TV and Swedish TV.

[@ivana.medina3126]

Only 114,262 views since 2009?? that`s not fair. Underrated music.

[@Amalokch]

yeah! that's true

[@silentpianomusic]

WOW!!! THIS is Music

[@TheSusurss]

This is ancient.. when I listen to this peace of magic.. I see wild nature, mountains, ancient knowledge, war, great love... everything. - just beastly!

[@krzysztofpazdziora5513]

So great... I discovered this concert in 2013, still coming back, and now I appreciate it even more. Tremendous piece of music

[@3lktro]

I just bought the Uniko CD and I'm loving every minute of it. It is shame that it took so long for them to produce a CD, but at least they finally did.

[@gonzalocabuche2124]

perfection , just perfection....

[@tarahumare]

Beautiful music.....

[@joycesweeting5675]

This song is just so beautiful....I have to keep coming back to it.

[@ReazonSama]

Thats absolutely ridiculous. This is beyond human !!! Im so impressed by all the talents. The composiotion and performance is out of this world. Im utterly blown away. holy christ! damn...

[@vicihaha]

this is outstanding...seeing the kronos quartet next year in burmingham...missed kimmo by 2 days in finland....ill go back and see :) just wish i could see them together :) so....so cool ;)

[@Rad631]

Oh thanks! Yes it's sound is amazing

[@LucasYY]

Powerful performance, you can feel the buildup of energy! Thank you for sharing, waiting for a tour in Japan!

[@lidiabohl2372]

Ich bin gerade im Konzert gewesen ❤ Köln...27.04.24.Voll begeistert.... geweint 😢

[@davidwright8432]

The Kronos quartet of course I knew. But thanks for introducing me to Kimmo Pohjonen! I've now listened to Kimmo both solo and with the Kronos. Wonderful pairing.

[@coosoorlog]

I listened to Kluster around 2003 and I feel like it was a gate into a new realm of music for me. Only later I realized that I had actually once, in early 90s in fact, listened to Kimmo live as he and Arto Järvelä played in my local school. The duo was called Pinnin Pojat.

[@annalefsrud3132]

Heaven on Earth.

[@marisita124]

Amazing! beautiful and very moving!

[@tytitytto123]

WOW! Love this!

[@sebashine]

sorprendido y maravillado de este sonido.no lo conocia.Miren de lo que me he perdido.

[@kaunisaamu]

Eine von meinem lieblingslieder!!!!

[@fioletini]

ZAJEBISTEEEE

[@123mooa]

BLEW MY MIND

[@beekaye1]

simply GREAT!

[@neophytosneophytou6121]

music from the space !!!

[@7Astra77]

super!!!!!!!!!!! the best!!!!!!

[@pablodamianfiori7563]

Impresionante! realmente el todo es mayor que las partes..

[@lourelou]

Też mi się podoba :)

[@EASilver1]

СУПЕР!!!!

[@nikolastelson222]

perfect!!!!

[@oooasifooo9458]

very goood love perfecto

[@CataSolle]

:O WAWWWWW!!!

[@narmolania]

Luojan kiitos että käytettiin muutakin kuin vaan Apocaluptikaa... ei mulla mitään vastaan niille pojille ole, se on vaan kun ne on niin monessa ollu mukana, että on kiva kuulla myös muistakin jousi instrumentin soittajista tälläisen hiukan raskaan oloisen musiikin kanssa ^^ Mutta Kronos Quartetin musiikki sopii aivan uskomattoman hyvin Pohjosen soiton kanssa!

[@byronever]

Salud!!!

[@Amalokch]

@narmolania Kiitos kommentoid.

[@chaosme1ster]

@1earth4love : you can buy quite a few albums by Kimmo from the iTunes store. I just bought the outstanding Uniko album this afternoon for only $9.

[@kaunisaamu]

@Rad631 : I get it from amazon. It's really really wonderful !

[@Rad631]

How can I get this in DVD? it's sound is amazing

[@zherekan]

el mundo gira, mi ciudad se queda...

[@marigala6161]

Αρμονία από το υπερπέραν . Armonia apo to yperperan Harmonia

[@sephiroth00013]

i have the same question as 1earth4love.if you are avaible to respon please do it .thankyou you for this consert i was searching it

[@walteralasia]

an extreme kicht piece of musak

[@happyseralstudent]

@kaunisaamu You could download this song from their website for free

[@shvedr06]

could it be more with Nigel Kennedy, or Jimmy Hendrix?

[@svenlittlecross]

yo is there not a better recording on internet?

[@PavelKupec-ss5di]

you can find DVD from this concert ....