Tomi Pekkola
Date of Birth: 5.4. -82
Instrument: Drums & percussion
Hardware: Any available drum kit & the amazing "Hellhammer"
Influences: Khanate, Burning witch, Cathedral, Black Sabbath, György Ligeti, Ved buens ende, Tim Buckley, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Charles Ives, Cocteau twins, Talk Talk, Carcass, Napalm Death, Lee Perry & Upsetters, Scientist, Pier-luigi da Palestrina, Wilco, My dying bride, Jim O'rourke, Septic Flesh, Captain Beefheart, Gamelan music, Jiuta music & all traditional stuff, Mahmoud Ahmed & all Ethiopian jazz, Francois Corneloup, Deep purple, Dillinger escape plan, Howling wolf & Johnny Lee Hooker, The Hafler trio, Motörhead, Eero Kesti, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Fantomas, Mike Patton, David Sylvian, Sunn))), Arvo Pärt, Scott Walker, At the gates, Death, Autechre, Rudimentary Peni, Anathema, Edgard Varese, Dmitri Shostakovich, Black metal, Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Sepultura, Anton Webern, Omar Khaijam, Osip Mandelstam, Andrei Tarkovski, Michael Mann, Rölli, Henry Michaux, The Blues Brother movie (the 1st one, not that latest crap!), Erich Fromm, George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, Ingmar Bergman, Väinö Kirstinä, all sonic stuff heard close or from a distance & experiences during the life on earth.
Other bands: The Sun Tryst (vox, guitar & composition), Markku Lahtelan Sirkus (guitar & everything possible), Raptus (Throat & guitar) & breeding strange fruits in the genre of art music composition.
Hobbies: Drinking coffee, cigarettes, books, cooking, education/musicology, aesthetics/philosophy, poetry, babbling non-sense, mingling.
Playlists at the moment: Nurse with wound - A sucked orange, The Hafler trio - All that rises must converge, Scott Walker - The Drift, Talking heads - Fear of music, Khanate - Capture & Release, Robbie Basho - The Grail & the lotus, Prince - 3121, Lee Perry - Black ark in dub, Edgard Varese - Deserts, Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Jim O'Rourke - Out with the old.
Words: "Nämä sanat on puhuttava tieltä pois, uusia on jo tulossa" - Kai Nieminen