|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|||||||||
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
||||||||
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
 |
|||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sacred Hiss/Ghost Oracle Ikuisuus IS-004 CD-R £6.99 Vortex of iron-clad synth melodies, wordless deep field vocals ala Wickham-Smith/Youngs and the sound of huge dinosaur silhouettes head-butting on the horizon from this revered European thinker. Recorded spring 2005 in Tampere. |
|
|
Alitaju Ylimina Dekorder LP £11.99 First ever vinyl album from this mysterious European psychedelic communal drone/action unit in an edition of 500 copies with fold-out art sleeves featuring art by Uton on the outside and art from Dutch artist Christelle Gualdi on the inner. The actual sonics shift from almost MEV-scale electro-acoustic destruction into doomy halflights of subliminal melody caught up in vortices of metal and teeth. |
|
|
Pearls And Dust 3xCD-R £16.99 Triple disc set from Uton, bound in a black plastic folder with colour art booklet: “Disc one is a capture of the Uton live speech and riddle and features Bridget Hayden of Vibracathedral Orchestra as a guest member. Disc two is a reissue of the mysterious Uton tape on the back then still mysterious Sloow Tapes from coded B.D.P. (released in 2005). Disc three is the mosaic of different strange Uton sound and content. 28 pages of full colour. Uton eye candy embraces these 3 discs of freedom. This is a private peek in the memory of Jani Hirvonen. A dive in the hole in time. These are the books of Hirvonen, one of the first seekers of truth in the modern take on introspection. A post 2000 view on things, that feeds happily into the bucket of post 1965. An imaginary of things to do when nearing a vortex.” – DTS. |
|
|
Tales From The Ancient Fire Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings OM-20 CD-R £6.99 Edition of 60 copies self-released live album from Finnish communal heads Uton. This one features two complete live shows, from Copenhagen and Berlin in 2008. The sound is wilder and little more pro-Industrial than recent Uton white-outs, with monolithic machine noise, infernal drones and the vibrations of distant factories charging the air with forms and shadows somewhere between Throbbing Gristle and the original Dream Syndicate. |
|
|
Solar Spells Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings OM-21 CD-R £6.99 Edition of 60 copies self-released album from Finnish cosmonauts Uton. This one combines distant music box/ethnic melodies with sandpaper coarse shortwave tones, bursts of analogue electricity and some almost Takayanagi-esque feedback/noise constructs. |
|
|
Holy Burn Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings OM-22 CD-R £6.99 Edition of 60 copies self-released album from this Finnish ethnic psych/jam outfit. Five tracks that move from screaming automatic-music Fluxus-style instants to protesting post-Conrad/Cale violin noise and psychoactive small instrument trance. |
|
|
The Children Of Ganga Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings OM-04 CD-R £6.99 “Uton meets the young couple from Osaka, Japan in Laxman Jhula, Rishikesh, next to the holy river Ganga, playing together in the roof of the hotel, in the room and in the rocks next to the river (and one confused young saddhu watching this rattle). Childish psychedelic folk improv using violin, ravanhattha (trad Rajasthani instrument), frame drum, maracas, mouth-organ, flutes and voices. Edition of 40 copies.” |
|
|
s/t Dekorder 024 LP £11.99 New album from the duo of Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystavat) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton) with a heady Godz/ESP freak division feel. Lots of chanting, percussion, woozy use of F/X, Angus MacLise worship… |
|
|
Sleepy Sounds Electric Ikuisuus IS-006 CD-R £6.99 Ominous, vibrating drone/threat from the trio of Anla Courtis (Reynols), J. Koho (Aan, Vapaa et al) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan etc). Three electric guitars, recorded in the heat of the am in the middle of the winter. |
|
|
Mind Of The Dolphin Phoenix 02 LP £12.99 Massive new limited edition LP on NNCK’s new imprint documenting a series of recordings from this ambitious American/European big band that unites Dave Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band with Spencer Clark and James Ferraro of The Skaters alongside Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat, Jonna from Kuupuu, Stellar Om Source, Mik Quantius from Embryo and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho of Uton/Keijo. The whole entourage toured through Europe in the spring of 2007 and this LP collects the best of the jams. Three long tracks and one fragment, including two pieces recorded at VPRO Radio. The sound takes off from the kind of free goof blueprint of The Godz, with a lots of percussion and odd rhythmic dunting while The Skaters work lush keyboard parts and a wall of ululating vocal drone deep into the backdrop. Quantius supplies vocals that are somewhere between Don Van Vliet and Alan Bishop and the whole thing proceeds into this kind of weird ethno-zone where fragmented world rhythms and sounds are twisted to dark, psychotropic ends. But the real gravy is the side long fourth track, the most convincing update of the monochord bass/drum confusion of Skip Spence’s “Grey/Afro” ever improvised in real time, combining sublime vocal highs with a hypnotic bottom end. Highly recommended. |
|
|
Unexplained Objects Dekorder 037 LP £12.99 Majorly alien side from this great Euro cult birthed by Jani Hirvonen, with modulated vocals and pulsing synths announcing their touchdown in elsewhere. The weird War Of The Worlds vibe gives way to a tannoy system in space feel, with F/X damaged hieroglyphics slurping around their mouths while somewhere in another galaxy planets are eviscerated with single beams of tone. Easily the most ‘out’ side from Jani thus far. Edition of 500 copies. |
