UNIKO features the Grammy winning Kronos Quartet together with a Finnish duo, accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen. Produced by Iceland's Valgeir Sigurosson, known for his collaboration with Bjork, this album was recorded at Avatar Studios in NYC.
UNIKO was commissioned by Kronos in 2003 and premiered live at the Helsinki Festival in 2004. It has subsequently drawn sellout audiences in Moscow, Molde (Norway), and New York at the 2007 BAM NEXT WAVE Festival. UNIKO is highlighted by Pohjonen's electrified and MIDI-fied accordion with Kosminen's electronic percussion devices which reproduce his own accordion samples and his samples of Kronos' instruments. These samples, together with live strings and electric accordion plus effects and manipulations create a new, multi-dimensional sound world.
I Utu 6:58
II Plasma 6:16
III Sarma 5:34
IV Kalma 11:01
V Kamala 5:38
VI Emo 10:20
VII Avara 6:01
Kimmo Pohjonen: Accordion, violin
Samuli Kosminen: String & accordion samples, programming
Kronos Quartet:
David Harrington: Violin
John Sherba: Violin
Hank Dutt: Viola
Jeffrey Zeigler: Cello
All music composed by Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen
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