CUCUMBER FARMER

Cucumber Farmer biography
CUCUMBER FARMER is a psychedelic/ Space Rock Finland band described as "a utopian socialist community that sees art and music both as a religion and a holy war. We are dada-priests and surrealistic revolutionaries simultaneously!"

The group adopted political motives in their music and desired to "distance themselves from the rock scene in many ways: by dressing up in work uniforms, releasing essays, declaring themselves as serious artists, playing in museums, picking up interest in cinematic montage, printing political pamphlets, making lecture tours". The aim of the band is to forget words like "good" or "bad" and to replace these with something new. According to the group "we want a listener as prone to reflection and to broadening the listening experience, as ourselves. we demand fast thrills, the superlative feedback produced by a superlative moment."

CUCUMBER FARMER, despite their humorous attitude in the content of the songs, take their music seriously stating that "music is full-on abstraction, it is multi-layered, unexplainable. It supplies the most direct route to emotion, to flesh, to experience."

Members of CUCUMBER FARMER have changed over the years from the 1997 debut "French Connection", but appeared on the "Beyond" album as Aki Ala-Kokko on guitar, vocals, Mikko Kanninem on guitar, vocals, Kari Lounela on guitar, vocals, Manu Haapalainen on bass, and Samuli Hytönen on drums. This album was followed up by the 2 CD set "Empirical Research On Western Popular Music 1993-2006 - That Was Cucumber Farmer/ Reconstructions Of Western Popular Music By Pink Twins". This set had a diverse lineup of musicians consisting of Manu Haapalainen, Nuutti Vapaavuori on Bass, Samuli Hytönen on drums, Miska Saarvanto on Electronics, Aki Ala-Kokko, Kari Lounela on Guitar, vocals, Mikko Kanninen on Guitar, Electronics, vocals, Arto Piispanen on Piano, and Ruska Schnönberg contributing some vocals.

CUCUMBER FARMER should appeal to those who enjoy Psychedelic Spacey electronic music with a satirical edge.


---AtomicCrimsonRush (Scott Tuffnell)---