Aki Himanen / Aleksi Kinnunen
Aki Himanen and Aleksi Kinnunen are finnish musicians who both have a strong background in jazz and electronic music. For years they’ve been exploring the boundaries where machines and organic instruments can create a real dialogue. Their first full-length album, Scapes I, was a dark experimental record inspired by generative music techniques and collective improvisation with trumpet, drums and machines. Now the duo is releasing more straightforward and dance-oriented EP, Dawn Drops, which combines techno and jazz music in a sophisticated manner. There’s lots of influences from Nordic jazz, but rhythmically the EP owes more to the African based jazz......
