Long-awaited new full-length album from Merja Kokkonen aka Islaja. First track sounds like a take on Yoko Ono doing "Mrs Lennon" from Fly while Jandek jams along on guitar. The rest of the album is dominated by swarms of organ drones in a hypnotic Euro surrealist style that reflects on the classic Bridget Fontaine/Areski sides topped off with those evocative, just slightly out of phase double-tracked vocals, all navigating with a zagged, fractured almost free jazz logic and weird hints of primitive dub damage that provide glimpses of the kinda parallel universe where a phantom Nina Simone might front Can. Certainly her most dramatic and evocatively arranged piece of the puzzle to date. Recommended.
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PAST TIP OF THE TONGUES
