Pekka
Airaksinen started making music in the late 1960s with the group the
Sperm, combining performance art with experimental music of the day.
With influences such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Sperm
combined free jazz and psychedelic pop to create a sound resembling
early industrial music and noise. After the Sperm’s breakup in the ’70s,
Pekka Airaksinen became a Buddhist and would stop releasing music for
almost a decade. Airaksinen, who was regarded as a recluse, returned to
the public eye in the mid-80s under his own name and with a brand new
but equally futuristic vision. His album Buddhas of Golden Light is an
incredible mixture of Sun Ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms
programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. At the end of the decade techno
elevated the 808 to a fetish object and Airaksinen disappeared for
another five years. In the ’90s Airaksinen released a large number of
CD’s and CD-R’s on his own Dharmakustannus label, on which the style of
each track varied wildly – breaking every rule of the niche-group
marketing concepts of the era. All his recordings, whether they are his
unique interpretations of contemporary music, new age, ambient house or
jazz, are characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness
that is rare in electronic music. The most avant-garde pieces of his
recent output continue his earlier work with the imaginary ‘anthropoid
music’ of the future. One Point Music is his shining moment. Line-up / Musicians Pekka Airaksinen/keyboards,Guitar,Organ Discography The Garden of Jane Delawney 1970
1.A Little Soup for Piano and Orchestra op. 46,8 2.mo-On-ing (1971) 3.Somerain - Sadetta (1968) Music for the Play Sisyfos (1968) 4.Skata 5.S Rock 6.Fos 2
