Finnish accordion daredevil Kimmo Pohjonen joins Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto (of King Crimson) forming KTU (pronounced 'K2'). Quiver follows their debut 8-Armed Monkey and features Samuli Kosimen, of Iceland band MuM, and three tracks mixed by Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. David Fricke of Rolling Stone calls them 'a robust tumult of Northern Lights sparkle, white-wolf guitar wail and rolling knotted thunder.' Fricke writes, 'When I saw KTU in Europe, they were as powerful and transgressive as the killer King Crimson. Pohjonen is a wonder unto himself: animating his wind song with pedals and processing; attacking the bellow with the ecstatic fury of Jimi Hendrix.' |
