Pohjonen is attracted to old customs and obsolete technologies, and these appear in his shows, such as sound from old farm machinery. One production featured the participation of Finnish wrestlers, who performed moves with Pohjonen in the middle. A number of the moves and actions are based on stories the wrestlers themselves told the musician. The idea for the show began when Pohjonen found out that in the first half of the 20th century in Finland, it was customary to have an accordion player to perform as a dramatic backdrop to the matches. He then began a process of forming a relationship with wrestlers, including appearing at practice bouts uninvited to play his accordion. For the "Earth Machine Music" tour he incorporated sounds from farms including banging an oil tank with a hammer, bleating sheep and other animal sounds. The idea was to bring sounds from farms to people in the cities. The tour was to four farms in England, where he recorded the sounds he could make at each one, then mixed with accordion composition in the studio. Final performances were at each of these same four farms. The "Kalmuk" project is named after a southern Russian tribe, and inspire by a painting by artist Martti Innanen, which shows elements of shamanism.