KTU

                                                                               KTU
Eclectic Prog

Multi-National

KTU (pronounced K2) was formed of the two duos, Kluster, comprising of Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen and of TU, which are Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto.
The initial contact came in March 1999 in a Project Three show where Robert Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto had Pohjonen play with them. However, the idea had to develop a few more years until it materialized in the form of KTU which had its first show in 2004 in Helsinki, Finland followed by shows in Japan; these shows appear on the album Eight Armed Monkey which was released in 2005.
Their music is quite hard to describe. A nice description was written by a reviewer of one of their live shows, saying that KTU "created on stage the spooky, infernal ambient usual in Pohjonen and departed from there to create a convulsive, ghostly music, capable of releasing gargula from its concrete skin - and them, scaring, danced slow waltzes, improvised gothic jazz, and, in the encore, rehearsed the available funk, muscular and overwhelming." (Mário Lopes, Diário de Notícias).

Assaf Vestin (avestin)

ALBUMS:

2009 - QUIVER

Musicians

- Trey Gunn / Warr guitar
- Kimmo Pohjonen / accordion, voice
- Pat Mastelotto / rhythmic devices, beats and noises

- Samuli Kosminen / additional beats and noises, Kosminization

Tracks Listing

1. Fragile Sun (1:40)
2. Kataklasm (5:08)
3. Nano (4:44)
4. Quiver (3:15)
5. Purga (5:44)
6. Womb (3:43)
7. Wasabi Fields (4:00)
8. Jacaranda (3:55)
9. Aorta 2:50)
10. Miasmaa (4:54)
11. Snow Reader (5:40)

Total Time 45:32


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