JIMI TENOR
Jimi Tenor, truly an inquisitive and bold spirit if there ever was one, has been a Finnish citizen for 53 years. He's helped birth Säkhö, alongside friends such as Mika Vainio, which shaped what would come to be Helsinki’s neo-futurist underground scene. He's been around for a long time – and between that label, Kitty-Yo and Warp, he's helped dissolve countless barriers of musical and social vocabularies.
He melds western pop song, African rhythms, electronic and acoustic sounds, song and soundscape, but above all what comes across is the work of a frontman with his eyes set on what could be. He's worked with Tony Allen (yes, Fela Kuti's drummer) and countless others, and has just this year released a totally under the radar record – ‘Order of Nothingness’ – in which he fuses trans-continental horns with polyrhythmic textures from every corner of the globe. An existentialist little-bird with many faces but which owns up to whatever may come, always searching for something to keep him pumped.