Kuusijärvi, Rönkkö

Kuusijärvi/Rönkkö launches the concept of accordion jazz into orbit with their album Aika ja tila (Time and Space). Built entirely on improvisation, this six-track collection stretches both musical genre boundaries and the very fabric of spacetime. Harri Kuusijärvi’s electronic accordion sounds at times like the chirping of a cyborg bird flock, and at others like Brian Eno’s electric toothbrush just as the batteries are dying. The other half of the duo, Tatu Rönkkö, weaves through his drum kit, moving from sophisticated, broken rhythms to fiercely intense, tectonic shifting. Born from improvisation in the midst of the northern Midnight Sun, the album is a document of two musicians in a moment where the shackles of genre have been broken. Aika ja tila takes the listener on a journey through shifting musical landscapes that captivate the ear and liberate the imagination.