Pekka Airaksinen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish electronic music composer
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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Pekka Airaksinen
- Pekka Airaksinen (21 August 1945 – 6 May 2019) was a Finnish composer of electronic music.
- Airaksinen formed his first band, The Sperm, in the 1960s.
- The Sperm mixed elements of avant-garde music with free jazz and psychedelic pop.
- Their concerts featured confrontational performance art, which resulted in two members being arrested for simulating sexual intercourse and screening pornographic films.
- Following The Sperm's breakup in the early 1970s, Airaksinen turned to Buddhism and ceased making music.
- He returned to music in the mid 1980s with his album Buddhas of Golden Light, which mixed free jazz with percussion from a Roland 808 drum machine.
- In the 1990s, Airaksinen founded the Dharmakustannus label, on which he released numerous CDs and CD-Rs.
- The music styles of these releases varies considerable, ranging from new age, ambient, house, jazz and improvisation. Pekka Airaksinen died on 6 May 2019, at the age of 73.
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