Pekka Airaksinen - One Point Music 1972

Pekka Airaksinen started making music in the late 1960s with the group the Sperm, combining performance art with experimental music of the day. With influences such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Sperm combined free jazz and psychedelic pop to create a sound resembling early industrial music and noise. After the Sperm’s breakup in the ’70s, Pekka Airaksinen became a Buddhist and would stop releasing music for almost a decade. Airaksinen, who was regarded as a recluse, returned to the public eye in the mid-80s under his own name and with a brand new but equally futuristic vision. His album Buddhas of Golden Light is an incredible mixture of Sun Ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. At the end of the decade techno elevated the 808 to a fetish object and Airaksinen disappeared for another five years. In the ’90s Airaksinen released a large number of CD’s and CD-R’s on his own Dharmakustannus label, on which the style of each track varied wildly – breaking every rule of the niche-group marketing concepts of the era. All his recordings, whether they are his unique interpretations of contemporary music, new age, ambient house or jazz, are characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. The most avant-garde pieces of his recent output continue his earlier work with the imaginary ‘anthropoid music’ of the future. One Point Music is his shining moment.

Line-up / Musicians

Pekka Airaksinen/keyboards,Guitar,Organ

Discography

The Garden of Jane Delawney 1970

1.A Little Soup for Piano and Orchestra op. 46,8
2.mo-On-ing (1971)
3.Somerain - Sadetta (1968)
Music for the Play Sisyfos (1968)
4.Skata
5.S Rock
6.Fos 2


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