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press release - Higher Planes



Jimi Tenors new album 'Higher Planes' was mainly recorded in London and Helsinki partly together with a regular Big Band called 'UMO' (UMO = 'the Orchestra of New Music) and also with his own band. The work on 'Higher Planes' took him about 2 years which is a long time for a record as he says. But during this time he became a father, searched for the right label (kitty-yo) and almost every piece on the record was entirely played by man instead of a machine. A similar experience he made already working with a Polish symphony orchestra in autumn '99 for his last album 'Out Of Nowhere' (2000).

The name 'Higher Planes' was inspired by the birth of Tenor's daughter. It came as he was writing the lyrics for the title-song one early morning before he went to the hospital where his wife was giving birth to their child. There is creation inside, world and universe.

Listening to 'Higher Planes' you will find a lot of genre-associations. If one would like to categorise it, he would find a lot of ideas: All those horns, trumpets, saxophones and percussions in Jimi Tenors underground Big Band music create a very enjoyable funky free jazz, fusion, kind of 70's movie soundtrack stuff which let you feel some of Tenors inspirations like for example finnish shaman-guys on toxic mushrooms in the smashing first track 'Cosmic Dive', Dirty Harry in the jazzy 'Dirty Jimi', Barry White in the sexy glitter tracks 'Spending Time' & 'Stargazing' or Jimi Hendrix and the finnish King of the Forests in the psychedelic 'Tapiola' (on this track Chris Dawkins plays the Jimi Hendrix-style guitar).

The jamming with Tenors musicians seems to be very productive. On this album he combines positive groovy funky rhythms or 'hippie' stuff like congas with computer and fusion basses & percussion, psychedelic soul with the soul of computer. But still conscious not very far from pop-music-structure, as Tenor says.

This relaxed and light genre-mixture makes 'Higher Planes' to one of those albums you will like more and more every time you are listening to it, and each time you discover another track and choose it to be your favourite one. When you're lucky, you will be able to see ñ even with your eyes closed ñ the big, round turning bed with Jimi in the 70ties white suit and glitter dust falling from above.

release:Higher Planes
label: Kitty-Yo