Bifurcated Rivets
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6 Nov 2002

I went to see Kimmo Pohjonen on Saturday night. He is a Finnish accordion player who plays unusual stuff. Unfortunately there was very little accordion in evidence in the pieces he played. The first piece - kluster - was with a sampler and was terribly self-indulgent - lots of mouth sounds, playing with echo machines and hitting the accordion. (If I were 30 years younger I would have probably thought it was amazing though - just the sort of thing that I would have wanted to do myself). The other piece - kalmuk - was played with 2 percussionists and a small orchestra (violins, bass, oboe/cor anglais, flute, clarinet, french horn and bassoon). This was much more successful and I really enjoyed this - the bassoon players were very rock 'n roll too.