Jimi Tenor


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Jimi Tenor is a Finnish composer and a musician. His artist name is a combination of an instrument and a childhood nickname: the girls next door called him Jimi because of a likeness to Jimmy Osmond. Jimi Tenor found that irritating, but the name stuck for life. The last name comes from tenor saxophone, which is Tenor's main instrument.
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Music

Tenor 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. His band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans released its first album in 1988.
Having disbanded Jimi Tenor And His Shamans, the artist embarked on a solo career in the early 1990s, recording his debut work "Sähkomies" on rudimentary equipment in a small New York apartment. The album was released in 1994 on the Finnish imprint Sähko 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 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. Three albums were released on Warp: "Intervision", "Organism" and "Out Of Nowhere".
2003 Jimi Tenor Big Band toured around Europe playing more than 50 gigs in one stretch. Jimi Tenor has since collaborated with Umo Jazz Orchestra, Tv and Radio Orchestra of Croatia, Dachau Big Band, Metropole Orkest and with the avant-garde big band Flat Earth Society.
2011 Jimi Tenor made an album with Tony Allen called "Inspiration Information". After the release Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen toured extensively in Europe.
Jimi Tenor recorded three albums for Sähkö Recordings with a Berlin based Afrobeat band named "Kabukabu": "Joystone", "4th Dimension", and "The Mystery Of Aether for Kindered Spirits".
In 2009, he covered an Elektroids song for the Warp20 (Recreated) compilation album, as well as having his song "Paint the Stars" covered by Hudson Mohawke.
Blending jazz, synthesizer sounds, afrobeats and drum machine dubs, Jimi Tenor created a distinctive sound often resembling free-fowing, sporadic sketches, with a touch of the absurd.
As a soloist Jimi Tenor has appeared mostly as a flute player, also saxophone. Jimi Tenor does frequent guest appearances and has been featured on records of Nightmares on Wax, Malla and Dalindeo.
During his years composing, he has released albums on Sähkö Recordings, Warp Records, Kitty-Yo record labels, Philophon, Bureau-B and Timmion.
He has released more than 15 solo albums and collaboration albums with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Tony Allen, Edward Vesala, Kabukabu, Freestyle Man, Jori Hulkkonen. Nicole Willis, Timmion Records, Maurice Fulton, Khan Of Finland, Lary 7, DJ Sotofett.

Films

Jimi Tenor has filmed a science fiction film Nuntius with Jori Hulkkonen. As Tenor and Hulkkonen constantly change the script, it can only be seen as a live performance, since Hulkkonen and Tenor play the soundtrack live.
In "Sähkö the Movie", Jimi Tenor documented the early era of Sähkö records, Ilpo Väisänen, Keith McIvor, Tommi Grönlund, and Mika Vainio.

Life

Tenor was born in Lahti, Finland. He has talked in multiple interviews about his childhood and ski jumping with other children as a hobby. Jimi Tenor has lived in Berlin, New York, London Barcelona and Helsinki.

Discography

Jimi Tenor and his Shamans

Total Capacity of 216,5 Litres; LP Diktafon; CD/LP Mekanoid; CD/LP Fear of a Black Jesus; CD/LP

Solo

  • Sähkömies; Digital/CD/LP Europa; Digital/CD/LP Intervision; Digital/CD/LP
  • Venera; EP/CD,
  • Organism; Digital/CD/LP
  • Out Of Nowhere; Digital/CD/LP
  • Cosmic Relief; Digital/EP,
  • Utopian Dream; Digital/CD/LP
  • Higher Planes; Digital/CD/LP
  • Beyond The Stars; Digital/CD/LP
  • ReComposed by Jimi Tenor; Digital/CD/LP
  • Live in Berlin; Digital
  • Saxentric; Digital/CD/LP
  • Order of Nothingness; Digital/CD/LP
  • Metamorpha; Digital

With Abdissa Assefa

  • Itetune; LP

With Kabu Kabu

  • Sunrise; EP/CD
  • Joystone; Digital/CD/LP
  • Mystery Spot; 7"
  • 4th Dimension; Digital/CD/LP
  • Mystery of Aether; Digital/CD/LP

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With Lary 7, Mia Teodoratus; Soft Focus

  • Soft Focus; Digital/LP

With Nicole Willis; Cola & Jimmu

  • Soul Makeover; as Nicole Willis, Digital/CD/LP
  • Be It; as Nicole Willis, Digital/CD/LP
  • Enigmatic; as Cola & Jimmu, Digital/CD/LP
  • I Give To You My Love And Devotion; as Cola & Jimmu, Digital/CD/LP
  • My Name Is Nicole Willis; as Nicole Willis & UMO Jazz Orchestra, Digital/CD/LP

With Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators (As also Jimmy Tenor)

  • You Better Change/Raw Steaks; 7"
  • If This Ain't Love /Instrumental; 7"/Maxi/WL/CD
  • Keep Reachin' Up; Digital/CD/LP/Cass
  • My Four Leaf Clover/Holdin' On; 7"
  • Feeling Free/Instrumental; 7"
  • Tell Me When/It's All Because Of You; 7"
  • Tortured Soul; Digital/CD/LP
  • Paint Me In A Corner/Where Are You Now; 7"
  • Happiness In Every Style; Digital/CD/LP
  • One In A Million/Instrumental; Digital/7"
  • Let's Communicate/Instrumental; 7"

With Nicole Willis featuring Tony Allen

  • All For You/Touching; 7"

With Myron & E with The Soul Investigators

  • Broadway; Digital/CD/LP

With Willie West & The High Society Brothers

  • Lost Soul; Digital/CD/LP

With The Soul Investigators

  • Vulture's Prayer/Bad Viberations; 7"
  • Soul Groove; Digital/CD/LP

With UMO Jazz Orchestra

  • Mysterium Magnum; Digital/CD/LP
  • My Name Is Nicole Willis; Digital/CD/LP

With Tapani Rinne

Suburban Sax; Digital/CD