Sahkomies is the 30th anniversary re-issue of Jimi Tenors debut solo album. Originally recorded onto cassette or VHS tape in the home studio Jimi was creating to make music for a friends Dance projects in El Sonsorium while also working as a Tourist photographer and starting to collect Synths and drum machines and a broken Saxophone without a mouthpiece that he plays on this album with a gaffer taped on child's mouthpiece for this low-fi electronica classic.
The album opens with the laid-back ambient jazz grooves of Theme Sax that has the classic sax sounds of American Tv in the late 60's early 70's over some sweet strings and the subtlest of basslines.
Crazy Hammond opens with a really simple drum machine pattern and the Hammond starting to flex its muscles, opening out from a staid beginning slowly layering and going against what you might expect.
Phasers fighting a battle over that backing track.
Union Ave has a sampled vocal telling us of the wonders of 1993 as a sax comes in and out around the bass and snare pattern with ambient timbres.
Take Me Baby was the albums break out hit and apparently still one of Jimi's most popular songs, helped by having some nicely deadpan vocals and a stonking club beat with string samples, this just makes you wanna dance, no matter how robotic the vocals may seem.
Matti B is squelchy synth from outer space cartoons perfect for some astral flight with minimal bass, drum driving the mission on and on like Ariston, this takes you to the far galaxies.
Terasmies has a African marching band percussion with cartoon synth twists, a dark almost Pink Pantheresque bassline and the scrawling Sun Ra style synth keyboard, break out freak streak, that needs a far larger system than the one I'm hearing it on.
Voimamies sci-fi noir cartoon universe bass declensions, shuffling wobbly walled noises, revelations running by, panting behind it all, wobbling already wobbly brains, 3 am in a club distort your mind, rearrange reality, super enhancing buzzed beliefs.
Travelin Dem Spaceways from planet to planet with Jimi instead of Herman, dubbed out, synth jazz trance, we can never have enough versions of Sun Ra's biggest hit, a perfect bed for inventive DJ's to build over, worth getting the album for this tune alone.
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