UNIKO / Kronos Quartet & Kimmo Pohjonen & SAMULI KOSMINEN / major / DVD Video

UPC 814337010713

Playtime is 82 Minutes 

The music is sheet physically Uniko is like an ocean tide coming in The New York Fina

"An unforgettable experience!"

Kimms Pobjoom boundlessly improviser The Guardian Kronos Quartet Polar Mesic Prize 2011

Uniko is a work that breaks down the barriers between folk music, the avant-garde and minimalism. Scored for accordion, voice, string quartet and sampler, it was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet in 2003. The present DVD documents the performance of the suite, which was heard for the first time in Helsinki in September 2004. The performers include not only the Kronos Quartet but also Finnish musicians, Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, who were together responsible for the work. An expressive lighting plot using live projection surfaces, surround-sound and electronic effects designed to create a sense of alienation combine within the framework of this performance to create a novel musical experience that resembles nothing so much as a trance. "The music is sheer physicality... Uniko is like an ocean tide coming in." The New York Times

HIMMO POHJONEN
accordion, voice
SAMULI HOSMINEN
string, accordion & voice samples, live loops
Bonus: Making of Uniko
KRONOS QUARTET
David Harrington
John Sherba violin
Hank Dutt viola
Jennifer Culp cello

All music written by Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen Directed and edited by Chris Kurt Weisz - Produced by Bernhard Fleischer

• FILMED IN HIGH DEFINITION
• MASTERED FROM AN HD SOURCE
• SOUND FORMAT: PCM STEREO, DTS 5.1
  
• REGION CODE: 0 (WORLDWIDE)

PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC

• CONCERT: 16:9
• BONUS: 4:3

TOTAL RUNNING TIME 82 MINS

• CONCERT: 66 MINS
• BONUS: 16 MINS