Jimi Tenor

Jimi Tenor is a Finnish composer and musician. He had done more than 15 solo albums and many
collaboration album where he is the main composer. Collaborations with: UMO Heslinki Jazz
Orchestra, Tony Allen, Edward Vesala, Kabukabu, Freestyle Man, Jori Hulkkonen. Nicole Willis, Timmion Records (Soul Investigators), Maurice Fulton, Khan Of Finland, Lary 7, DJ Sotofett.

Having disbanded Jimi Tenor And His Shamans, the artist embarked on a solo career in the early 1990s, recording his debut work “Sahkomies” on rudimentary equipment in a small New York apartment. The album was released in 1994 on the Finnish imprint Sahko that also issued Tenor’s sophomore work “Europa” a year later, expanding on the ideas articulated on the first disc.

On the back of a game-changing performance at the Love Parade in Berlin, Jimi Tenor scored his first hit with “Take Me Baby”, entering the charts and signing a deal with the seminal electronic label Warp Records. The three Warp albums – “Intervision” (1997), “Organism” (1999) and “Out Of Nowhere” (2000) – were touchstones in the electronic club music scene of the period. Effortlessly blending jazz, synthesizer sounds, Afrobeats and drum machine dubs, Jimi Tenor created a distinctive sound which he himself rewired and renewed. Not that his compositions were overly academic, on the contrary – they often resembled free-fowing, sporadic sketches, with an infectiously irrepressible touch of the absurd.

As a soloist Jimi Tenor has appeared mostly as a fute player, sometimes also saxophone. Some guest appearances: Nightmares on Wax, Malla, Dalindeo.

Jimi started his career in Jimi Tenor & His Shamans playing industrial music. The group was
inspired by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo, Japanese drumming ensembles and industrial noise
music.