Another one of my weird musical tastes: Kimmo Pohjonen (official page) is a Finnish accordion player that created his own electronic accordion and does very interesting things with it. One of the more unexpected things he does is something called accordion wrestling (reminds me of chess boxing). The performance, featuring Pohjonen and ten Finnish wrestlers, is a revival of Finnish wrestling tradition from early to mid-1900s where accordion was included as musical accompaniment for wrestling matches. - [Finnish wrestling] is very serious. A bout can take hours as the two competitors grapple for an advantage. The accordion player entertained the crowd the whole time. Another important function, he says, was to cover up the farts emitted by the wrestlers. One of the old players said he was told to watch the eyes of the wrestlers, and when you see the fart is coming to produce some special effect to cover it. -
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:08:26 +0000
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