Browse by Artist: TENOR, JIMI

Artist:	TENOR, JIMI
Title:	Out of Nowhere
Label:	MATADOR
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	OLE 460 CD

"Out of Nowhere is Tenor's third album for Warp and his first for Matador. It is NOT his long-awaited 'pop' album. It marks Jimi Tenor as a serious composer, extremely dislocated from everything else going on. This is Jimi's first orchestral record, and was recorded with the 60-piece Orchestra of the Grand Theatre Lodz, in Poland. The results are insanely varied. 'Blood On Borscht' sounds like Carl Orff's Carmina Burana covered by a heavy metal band with a cast of 1000 slave extras... on the Planet of the Apes. In other words: terrifying. Single and video track 'Spell' riffs on Curtis Mayfield in his sublime early 70s period on the Curtdom label. And the opener'"Out of Nowhere' marries the high drama of Lalo Schifrin to music reminiscent of a scene of alien abduction somewhere in Nevada. Elsewhere, Jimi has Baluji Shrivastav, his blind sitar player, tune his instrument to the Chinese scale to approximate a 'Hollywood idea' of Asian music. Yes, that bizarre." [CD-only release in the US]

Artist:	TENOR, JIMI
Title:	Cosmic Relief
Label:	SAHKO/PUU (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	PUU 25 CD

"The return of Jimi. Returning to the Finnish label that set the wheels in motion, PUU (a subsidiary of Sähkö Recordings), starting things off with the Cosmic Relief EP. The great Finn-master returns. Jimi, of course, is in the world league of superstars. Just finishing his performances with full orchestra for his amazing Out of Nowhere LP, his third and final LP recorded for Warp. Jimi and Warp have parted company in a harmonious fashion, but he's off on his own, and returning, albeit briefly, to the label he never really left, PUU. Jimi over the years has recorded for Puu under the pseudonym Impostor Orchestra, and in collaborations with a variety of artists, including producing Brandi Ifgray, Nicole Willis, City Of Women and many others. Cosmic Relief includes the hit 'Moon Folks', which Jimi has performed repeatedly over the years. This EP and the forthcoming LP Planet One is Jimi at his lo-fi finest. Definitely the stripped down sound that Tenor made his name on in his early performances, but lacking nothing in groove, mellow vibe or deep spaced-out aura."

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