- Pekka Airaksinen
Pekka Airaksinen is a Finnish composer of
electronic music .Airaksinen formed his first band, The Sperm, in the 1960s. The Sperm mixed elements of
avant-garde music withfree jazz andpsychedelic pop. Their concerts featured confrontationalperformance art , which resulted in two members being arrested for simulating sexual intercourse and screening pornographic films.Following The Sperm's breakup in the early 1970s, Airaksinen turned to
Buddhism and ceased making music. He returned to music in the mid 1980s with his album "Buddhas of Golden Light", which mixed free jazz with percussion from aRoland 808 drum machine.In the 1990s, Airaksinen founded the Dharmakustannus label, on which he released numerous CDs and CD-Rs. The music styles of these releases varies considerable, ranging from
new age , ambient, house,jazz and improvisation.Discography
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One Point Music (1972)
*Buddhas of Golden Light (1984)
*Inner Galaxies (1996)
*Madam I'm Adam (album) (2003)
*Mahagood (2007)External links
* [http://daka.fi/airaksinen/ The official site @ Dharmakustannus]
* [http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~latvis/yhtyeet/PekkaAiraksinen.html Discography @ Rockdata]
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