"Alone" by Erkki Jokinen

A live recording of Erkki Jokinen's "Alone" for accordion solo done for the Festival Meridian 2021.

Alone (1979) for solo accordion is a piece dedicated to the Finnish accordionist Mati Rantanen and may be considered a through-composed work whose course is determined by shifts in harmonic and dynamic intensity. The work’s fragmentary character and abrupt changes in its presentation of musical materials generate an improvisatory feeling, while the accordion’s usual sonic habitat is expanded by means of percussive and especially colourist interventions. The author sought to high-light the instrument’s expressive abilities, ranging from dense clustered sonorities and delicate timbres isolated in quiet dynamics, via short motoric segments and virtuosic figurations, to the prominent role assigned to the per-former’s own corporeality, that is, the expressive power of physical gesture through a complex sonority approximating synthesised or “concrete” sound.

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