Tenor, Jimi
Wormhole Mystic
Few artists have navigated as many musical territories as Jimi Tenor without ever settling into a recognisable formula. For more than three decades, the Finnish composer and multi-instrumentalist has moved freely between electronic music, jazz, funk, Afrobeat and experimental pop, guided less by stylistic boundaries than by curiosity itself. His approach has remained remarkably consistent throughout: intuitive, exploratory and open-ended. Rather than following a fixed plan, his music tends to emerge from experimentation and from whatever possibilities reveal themselves along the way. Following the release of his first album with the newly formed Jimi Tenor Band and an extensive period of touring, Tenor now returns to solo work with Wormhole Mystic, his latest album for Hamburg's Bureau B. The twelve pieces collected here all began with rhythm loops programmed on vintage drum machines from the 1960s and '70s. Their dry, mechanical pulse became the foundation for a new set of compositions, opening unexpected pathways into Tenor's ever-expanding sonic world.