Antti Paalanen

Kokkola, FINLAND Antti Paalanen (born 1977) creates his wild music on the simple accordions so familiar to Finnish folk music. Although inspired by tradition, Paalanen has nevertheless created a sound world all his own, where tradition gives way to trance-like minimalism, EDM influenced beats, Siberian throat-singing and controlled and insightful use of modern sound technology. Paalanen’s previous album Meluta was the final component of his artistically oriented doctorate, Bursting bellows – Bisonoric accordion’s bellows rhythmics in composition, which was examined at the Sibelius Academy in 2015. His doctorate focused on writing new music for the bisonoric accordion from the perspective of instrumentality. Meluta was nominated for Teosto prize in Finland and in 2016 for the Nordic Council Music Prize. The last three years Antti has been touring festivals all over the World – mostly around Europe, but also in places like Canada and Japan. At the same time he has been writing tunes...