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October 2001

Jimi Tenor and his band (Maurice Fulton - bass, Chris Dawkins - guitar, Ilkka Mattila - guitar , Jukka Eskola - trumpet, Jay Kortehisto - trombone and Mikko Hassinen - drums) are on tour, check the dates here.

If you can't make it to any of the shows, you can hear Jimi's gig at Concorde 2, Brighton, streamed at www.totallyradio.com along with an interview (coming up soon).

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A launch party for Jimi's new album Utopian Dream takes place at Cargo, London, Oct 22. Jimi will of course be playing with his band, DJ support comes from Jori Hulkkonen. Win tickets for this special event at www.sleazenation.com.

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Jimi Tenor's documentary film Sähkö - the Movie will be screened at Mixmove, a french festival of electronic music and images, which takes place Oct 19-21 in Paris. Jimi's film is scheduled to be shown on Sunday, Oct 21 at 02 am.

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The whole Tavastia show, selections of which were featured on Jatzofrenia (see below), will be brodcast sometime in the near future on Finnish Ylen Ykkönen. Details will follow later. Meanwhile see some photos from the outstanding show.

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Jimi Tenor & UMO's recent show at Tavastia is featured on Radiomafia's Jatzofrenia on Thursday, October 4. If you don't happen to be in Finland, you can tune in on the web at the Radiomafia site. The show starts 21.20 Finnish time.

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Meet the Moonfolks! Watch the new Jimi Tenor video by Jacob Remin here!

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Jimi Tenor's music can be heard in Timo Humaloja's film Laina-aika (Borrowed Time) on Finnish TV1 tonight (Oct 1) at 21.20.

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A Jimi Tenor special is coming up on the German music channel Viva 2. The show is called Wah² and airs on Oct 9 and again on Oct 14. See the Viva 2 site for more.

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Jimi Tenor's Utopian Dream is out Oct 5. Moonfolks, a song from the new album, is available as an mp3 download from www.intro.de. Check out the album info along with links to reviews here.

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Ambient City 2001, a transient radio station active from Sep 30 to Dec 31 2001, is broadcasting 24 hours a day from a laptop at Kiasma (the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki). Rarely heard experimental electronic music will reach the Helsinki area at 103,1 Mhz FM. The rest of the world is served on the web.

The programme includes Suburban Sax by Jimi Tenor and Tapani Rinne, and Impostor Orchestra's Heliopause. For programme details and more, visit www.kiasma.fi/arsradio/.

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