Kaamos is the sixth solo album from German

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Thomas Köner Thomas Köner (born 1965 in Bochum, West Germany) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. The BBC, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between instal ...

. It is also the first album Köner released on the label

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. "Tabula Smaragdina" was recorded live in Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France in October 1997. It was used as the music to the Jürgen Reble film ''Chicago''. "Kaamos" is Finnish for "polar night." "

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Track listing

#"Kaamos" – 12:24 #"Kaamos" – 6:21 #"Kaamos" – 12:00 #"Tabula Smaragdina" – 24:52

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaamos (Thomas Koner album) 1998 albums Thomas Köner albums Albums produced by Thomas Köner