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About Gnomus

Album Review

Gnomus’ second album continues to refine the atmospheric improvisation the group explored on its self-titled debut . Gnomus is keboardist Kari Ikonen, guitarist Esa Onttonen and drummer Mika Kallio. Ikonen and Onttonen also compose a variety of works, from small ensemble and vocal pieces to big band works. Kallio does not compose like the others, but his meticulous, subdued percussion work has shaped numerous pieces by other composers. These talents combined give the three extended improvisations on II an intuitive ...

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Album Review

Gnomus: Gnomus

Read "Gnomus" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich

by Matthew Wuethrich
July 12, 2002

Gnomus, the self-titled release of three Finnish musicians, delves deeply into the sounds that surround us and in turn creates its own sublime world of noise. Our world has become a noisier one over the last century, what with the proliferation of industry, telephone networks, and radio. It comes as no surprise then that recorded music, one source of the new noise, is also using these sounds as material for further exploration. Yet Gnomus is no random collection of ambient ...