Re-issue of the second Es album from Sami Sanpakkila with one bonus track. Mesmerising early experiments with multiple turntables, winding broken/evocatively wonked phrases into hypnotic psychoactive architectures ala Terry Riley/William Basinski et al.

New album from Fonal head Sami’s very personal minimalist drone project. His last few sides have been epic investigations of the mind-stilling potential of achingly teased repeat-tones, and Kesamaan Lapset feels a little more concise in comparison, not to say less deliberately monochrome, with shorter pieces that explode into multiple colours using bold keyboard patterns and gushing electronics. At the heart of the music tho, there is that almost religious sense of stillness, of a single sonic event extrapolated in multiple directions. There is great use of repeating piano and hovering drone, which at points is reminiscent of Richard Youngs but when it all collapses into comet tails of lucid toytown synth it could only be Finnish.

Region-free DVD that bundles a host of evocative film shorts made by Sami, Fonal label boss and Es member, across the last decade. Features music by Es and a bunch of extra promo music videos for Fonal friends like Tv-Resistori, Islaja, Office Building, Es and Circle. “His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspension is also present in the soundtracks to his works. The resulting entity is hypnotic, trance-inducing.”