Kimmo Pörsti

Musician, composer and producer
Kimmo is a musician, composer and producer from Hämeenlinna, Finland. He has played in over 60 albums. His main instruments are drums and percussion. Occasionally he plays some keyboards, guitar and bass as well.
 
He is one of the core members of The Samurai of Prog, The Guildmaster and Pacha & Pörsti, also taking care of the mixing and mastering of their albums.
Bio

Kimmo studied piano and drums in the 70’s. Between 1982 and 1988 Kimmo worked with Mika Syväniemi for the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE TV2, making music for many TV programs.

 

In 1986, Kimmos group Minea won a nation-wide Starchase competition, the prize being a recording contract. In 2004, Kimmo co-founded the prog/fusion group Mist Season, which released 3 albums.

 

With Jan-Olof Strandberg Kimmo formed Paidarion in 2009, which has released 3 albums and performed with Michael Manring.

 In 2009 Kimmo received a phone call from Marco Bernard as he asked if Kimmo could play drums for Marco's Samurai of Prog for an Italian tribute album. It has been an intense cooperation ever since.

 In the early 2020's it was time to form a project combining folk music and medieval music with progressive rock: ”The Guildmaster” with Rafael Pacha, Marco Bernard and Ton Scherpenzeel (Camel, Kayak), who was later replaced with Alessandro Di Benedetti.

Besides recording 3 solo albums: ”Maahinen: Ihmeellinen Iltapäivä” (1997), Wayfarer (2020) and Past And Present (2021), Kimmo has recorded 2 albums with the Spanish multi-instrumentalist Rafael Pacha.

 

Overall, Kimmo has played in over 70 releases; besides Finnish also in Italian, Spanish and French albums. 18 of the albums include his compositions.

Solo Albums
So far Kimmo has done 3 solo albums:

Past and Present

(2021)

Watch demo here

Wayfarer

(2020)

Watch demo here

Maahinen: Ihmeellinen iltapäivä

(1997)

Yhteystiedot