Masters of Poh

Masters of Poh is the duo of Vaara Ylhäälta and Mauno Salmi, who both studied for years under the legendary Finnish avant-garde composer Seppo Perälä.  However, after Perälä insisted on months of re-takes of the recording of his re-interpretation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle (to be performed by Ylhäälta and Salmi on toy instruments), the two finally broke from their former mentor, and are now exploring fertile fields of proggy weirdness.   They are sometimes joined by co-traveller Ismo Koivu.

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Hardcore Robots —

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Xeno Grid —

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