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My second solo album "Banjo Machine Music" was released this fall and features a lot of harmonium drone, banjo feedback and improvisations, and additional contributions from other musicians. Three of them (Pekko Käppi, Tim Holehouse and Tethering) are able to be in Tampere just after Christmas, so it seemed like a good time to set up a bunch of instruments and synths and do some really experimental music, meaning that we have no idea what will happen! Antti Tolvi will open the evening. There will be LPs and CDs of the album for sale.Here is the link to the album: https://ldonohkami.bandcamp.com/album/banjo-machine-music-2
Here's an excerpt of an article Mikael Johannes Mattila wrote upon the release of the album:
L Don Ōkami and Donald Lupo (born in 1956) are different but the same, like the two wolves of legend. Donald Lupo is a retired professor of electronics, originally from South Carolina. L Don Ōkami is a wild man with a banjo he doesn’t fear to use. Lupo developed important new technologies like OLEDs, new solar cells, and new ways to store energy, while Ōkami dived into the thriving underground music scene of Tampere and explored the unexpected sonic possibilties of banjo.
Banjo Machine Music is L Don Ōkami’s second solo album, his most experimental one, and was released on Ikuisuus Records on 1.9.2025. ”This is neither folk nor hillbilly”, he describes. The core of the album is layers of drones with harmonium, feedback and improvisations on banjos of all sizes. The main piece was reworked for the album to five remixes with additional instruments by his friends, such as the jouhikko magician Pekko Käppi. It’s banjo like you never heard it before.
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