Jimi tenor
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Jimi Tenor (* 27. March 1965 in Lahti , Finland as Lassi Lehto ) is a Finnish musician ( composer , multi-instrumentalist ) and director .
history
He borrowed his stage name from the child star Jimmy Osmond and the tenor saxophone .
After initially releasing a few albums with the industrial band Jimi Tenor and his Shamans , he left Finland and lived in Berlin and New York City .
His first solo album Sähkomies ( Electrician ), which was later re-released on Warp Records label , contained the successful single Take Me Baby , which became a club hit in 1994 and is considered a classic in the techno music scene.
Tenor has been running the Sähkö sub-label Puu in collaboration with Tommi Grönlund since 1994 , which is dedicated to the genres of house , easy listening and jazz .
While his early works are more likely to be attributed to electronic music, Tenor turned more towards jazz from 1997 onwards .
Discography (selection)
- Albums
- 1988: Jimi Tenor and His Shamans - Total Capacity of 216.5 Liters (Euros Records)
- 1989: Jimi Tenor and His Shamans - Diktafon (Poko Rekords)
- 1992: Jimi Tenor and His Shamans - Fear of a Black Jesus (Bad Vugum)
- 1994: Jimi Tenor - Europe ( Puu )
- 1994: Jimi Tenor - Sähkömies (Puu)
- 1996: Jimi Tenor - Intervision ( Warp Records )
- 1999: Jimi Tenor - Organism (Warp Records)
- 2000: Jimi Tenor - Out of Nowhere (Warp Records)
- 2001: Jimi Tenor - Utopian Dream (Puu)
- 2003: Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes ( Kitty-Yo )
- 2004: Jimi Tenor - Beyond the Stars (Kitty-Yo)
- 2006: Jimi Tenor Meets Kabu Kabu - Sunrise (Puu, with Timo Lassy )
- 2007: Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - Joystone (Ubiquity Records)
- 2009: Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - 4th Dimension (Puu)
- 2009: Jimi Tenor / Tony Allen - Inspiration Information (Strut)
- 2012: Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - Mystery of Aether (Kindred Spirits)
- 2013: Cola & Jimmu - Enigmatic (Herakles Records)
- 2015: Tenors of Kalma (with Kalle Kalima and Joonas Riippa) - Electric Willow (Yellowbird)
- 2018: Jimi Tenor - Order of Nothingness (Philophon)
- 2020: Jimi Tenor - Ny, Hel, Barca (Bureau B)
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1995: Sähkö the Movie (documentary)
- 1998: Jimi Tenor - Midsummers Night (music video, with Sökö Kaukoranta)
- 1999: Jimi Tenor - Total Devastation (music video, with Sökö Kaukoranta)
- 2014: Nuncio (feature film, with Jori Hulkkonen )
Web links
- Jimi Tenor's website
- Works by and about Jimi Tenor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jimi Tenor at Discogs (English)
- Jimi Tenor at Allmusic (English)
- Jimi Tenor at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT
- ↑ Jimi Tenor - Info. In: Facebook. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Biography on jimitenor.com, accessed April 21, 2011.
- ↑ Sähkö Recordings History at PhinnWeb, accessed on 21 April 2011th
- ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
- ^ "Afrobeat for walks in the forest" , review on Deutschlandfunk from June 16, 2018, accessed January 13, 2019
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| SURNAME | Tenor, Jimi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lehto, Lassi (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish musician (composer, multi-instrumentalist) and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahti , Finland |