2LP Edition Release Date: 6/3/2020 Label: Bureau B
Description
Best Of compilation spanning his first 6 albums 1994-2001. Finnish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jimi Tenor has joined forces with Bureau B to release NY, Hel, Barca - a retrospective compilation spanning the years 1994 - 2001. The double LP features early works and selected tracks from his first six albums, long since deleted. Having disbanded Jimi Tenor And His Shamans, the artist embarked on a solo career in the early 1990s, recording his debut work Sähkömies on rudimentary equipment in a small New York apartment. The album was released in 1994 on the Finnish imprint Sähkö, who also issued Tenor's sophomore work Europa a year later, expanding on the ideas articulated on the first disc. In spite of the experimental nature and free form of these early recordings, Tenor's instinctive grasp of pop appeal, his spontaneity and whimsical sense of humour are clearly in evidence. On the back of a game-changing 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. The three Warp albums – Intervision (1997), Organism (1999) and Out Of Nowhere (2000) - were touchstones in the electronic club music scene of the period. Effortlessly blending jazz, synthesizer sounds, Afrobeats and drum machine dubs, Jimi Tenor created a distinctive sound which he himself rewired and renewed. Not that his compositions were overly academic, on the contrary - they often resembled free-flowing, sporadic sketches, with an infectiously irrepressible touch of the absurd. The 20 tracks on NY, Hel, Barca document key stages of Jimi Tenor's remarkable creative path, underlining the prolific and varied nature of his artistic output. Then as now, he shines like a satellite hovering over the European pop landscape.
A1 Xineotepe Heat
A2 Utopian Dream
A3 Take Me Baby
A4 Fantom (The Wandering Ghost)
A5 Tesla
B1 Year Of The Apocalypse
B2 Spell
B3 Rubberdressing
B4 Teräsmies
B5 Suggardaddy
C1 A Daughter Of The Snow
C2 Shore Hotel
C3 Muchmo
C4 Backbone Of Night
C5 My Mind
D1 Natural Cosmic Relief
D2 Voimamies
D3 Unmentionables
D4 Theme Sax
D5 Outta Space
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