【今晚】芬兰单人乐队传奇JIMI TENOR【 Solo Live set】+ DJ Toimi Tytti【芬兰】

芬兰单人乐队传奇 JIMI TENOR (Warp Records, Sähkö Recordings) 近十年后重返中国。

视频：Take Me Baby- JIMI TENOR

Finnish one-man-band legend JIMI TENOR (Warp Records, Sähkö Recordings) is back in China, after nearly a decade.

音乐家兼作曲家 Jimi Tenor 从未满足于传统的流行艺术家的角色。他是一位多产的音乐家，他的作品超越了当下的流行趋势；他也是一位将美国黑人音乐的精华、心血来潮的犯傻和无耻的魅力以一种独创的方式结合在一起的表演者。

Musician and composer Jimi Tenor has never settled for the traditional role of a pop artist. He is known as a productive musician whose work lies beyond current trends, and also as a performer who combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in an original way.

Tenor的音乐，连同他的设计和技术创新，都起源于实验摇滚。他的第一支唱片乐队Jimi Tenor & His Shamans (1986-1992)受到了80年代早期工业摇滚的影响，当时的乐器是由废金属和塑料制成的。后来在90年代，Tenor 首先转向电子音乐，但很快就接近了其根源: 60和70年代的爵士乐，迷幻的灵魂和非洲放克。

Tenor's music, along with his design and technical innovations, springs from experimental rock. His first recording band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans (1986-1992) was influenced by the early 80s industrial rock, where instruments were made out of scrap metal and plastic. Later during the 90s Tenor moved first towards electronic music, but soon got closer to his roots: 60s and 70s jazz, psychedelic soul and African funk.

尽管 Tenor 整个90年代都在柏林、纽约、伦敦和巴塞罗那度过，但他的艺术风格是典型的芬兰风格:技术实用，但充满了黑色幽默和民族浪漫情调。因此，在一群疯狂的人面前，他在整个欧洲都很自在，他穿着自己设计的闪闪发光的服装，披着飘逸的斗篷，手里拿着一个制造噪音的装置，这个装置的主要部件是一台香港制造的随身听和一台东德的自行车发电机，演奏着一首关于古代芬兰森林之神的歌曲，听起来像是 Gil Evans、Jimi Hendrix 和 Fela Kuti 的混合体。

Although Tenor spent all of the 90s in Berlin, New York, London and Barcelona, his artistic approach was typically Finnish: technically practical, but saturated with black humour and a national romantic tone. So he was quite at home all over Europe in front of a crowd gone wild, wearing a glittering self-designed costume and a flowing cape, holding a noise-producing device the main components of which were a walkman made in Hong Kong and an East-German bicycle dynamo, performing a song about ancient Finnish forest gods, sounding like a mixture of Gil Evans, Jimi Hendrix and Fela Kuti.

音乐产业发现有时和Jimi Tenor合作很难。80年代被硬摇滚驱动的芬兰人认为他古怪，太边缘化了。在上世纪90年代的英国，他被视为一名时髦的电子爵士艺术家，但Tenor 很快就把先锋电子唱片公司Warp搞糊涂了，因为他没有制作极简主义的热门歌曲，而是与交响乐团合作推出了一张想象中的、昂贵的原声带专辑。

The music industry has found it difficult to operate with Jimi Tenor at times. The hard rock driven Finland of the 80s considered him weird and too marginal. In Britain in the 90s he was seen as a trendy techno jazz artist, but Tenor soon confused the pioneering electro label Warp by delivering an imaginary -- and expensive -- soundtrack album with a symphony orchestra, instead of making minimalistic hits.

现在， Jimi Tenor 是一位在主流之外工作的欧洲知名艺术家。他的观众包括在寻找新视角的俱乐部成员和另类摇滚爱好者们，但也包括爵士和放克叛逆分子。那些懂得即使非传统的流行音乐也能打动你的身心的人。

Today Jimi Tenor is an established European artist who operates outside the mainstream. His audience consists of clubbers and alternative rock enthusiasts looking for new perspective, but also of jazz and funk rebels. Those who understand that even unconventional pop music can move your body and heart.

视频：Jimi Tenor ft. Cha Cha - Time Bird

Jimi 将带来一段现场演奏，也会喝很多香槟。不要错过这个非常独特的节目! 

Jimi will play a live solo set, and drink lots of champagne. Don't miss this very unique show!

在吉米之前和之后演奏的还有芬兰的 DJ Toimi Tytti.

Also playing before AND after Jimi, is Finland's DJ Toimi Tytti.

DJ Toimi Tytti

Friday, Dec. 7 

Antidote presents JIMI TENOR (Finland, Solo Live set) 

+ DJ Toimi Tytti (Finland, DJ set)