Kimmo Pohjonen & Eric Echampard al Teatro Manzoni di Milano Aperitivo in concerto Teatro Manzoni -Milano -08.02.2015 Le modalità con cui la fisarmonica è entrata a far parte della tradizione musicale ...

The news tells us signs of life have been found on comet 67P by the Rosetta spacecraft. Maybe some element of the state, order and rhythm of space has attached itself to music, too. What does this ...

In his small home town of Viiala in Finland, the bellowed instrument was played primarily by an older generation. "I was the only young boy at the village playing it," he says. Thirty years on, the ...

Nothing can quite prepare the unwary for Kimmo Pohjonen. Detractors might say that the Finnish musician is only making up for all the bad press accordionists have had, and it's tempting – bearing in ...

It's a beautiful brisk morning, and I'm standing in a muddy yard at Manor Farm in West Sussex, where something very peculiar is going on. Over on one side are several photographers, a TV crew, and ...

For some musicians, playing written-out pieces on the stage of a concert hall is just too boringly familiar. They want to throw away the score, break down the walls, take music into unfamiliar spaces, ...

There is an old gag that a gentleman is somebody who can play the accordion yet doesn't, but this gig deserves to bury the joke once and for all. The audience spent half of Kimmo Pohjonen's single-set ...

In the hands of avant-accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen, the mechanical intricacies of his instrument become agents of a great musical power, grace and expression. An instrumental virtuoso, Pohjonen has ...

The programme notes to Kimmo Pohjonen's Meltdown show positively flap with ecstatic superlatives praising his uncompromising intensity, originality and brain-bursting (you get the idea) ...

Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen is set to expand the scope and sound of the accordion as never before at the TelstraClear Festival Club. Arguably Finland’s most internationally celebrated ...