roland's untergrund.city
one of the most ...impressive pieces of ...dang, I dont know what to call this! contemporary classic? minimal music? experimental?
anyway, this is so not for shallow music-consumers, impressive soundscapes, immense vastness, intense feel, VERY dark, rough and edgy, almost brutal. a reset for brain and ears and a journey in the hidden depths of the soul. great, great stuff!
Favorite track: 06. Mätäneminen.
Sean Thomas
Experimental, atmospheric, layered and accomplished. There's a lot to love here and I often find myself lying back to listen to this at the end of a busy day. Dark, haunting but strangely calming too, i'm really pleased I got this gem.
Favorite track: 01. Kaksonen 1.
Christian Kriegeskotte
Incredibly difficult to put into words, but I guess that's why they call it being speechless. Great work, not for the faint of heart.
Forget what you know about the Seattle-area sound-art project Mamiffer and the Finnish hypno-rock institution Circle. Enharmonic Intervals (for Paschen Organ), the first in a proposed series of joint efforts involving these parties, contains few of the musical hallmarks you might associate with either performer. The comforts of austere piano sketches and solemn nocturnes are largely absent; the wallop of repetitive rhythms and metallic kitsch is nowhere to be found. It's as if an unseen hand has erased the auditory signatures of each group and left behind only impressions, embers, filaments, and shadows. As with Mamiffer's recent collaboration with Locrian, the work is anything but a predictable merger of two bands' established visions.
Recorded at Keski-Porin Kirkko, the nineteenth-century stone church in the heart of Circle's hometown, the basic tracks for Enharmonic Intervals exude divine inspiration. Caressed by Faith Coloccia, Aaron Turner, Jussi Lehtisalo, and Mika Rättö, the house of worship's immense Paschen organ sets a liturgical, contemplative mood, which persists unabated through a cycle of improvisations and short compositions. The album opens and closes with slowly building sinfoniettas of sustained drone and flatlining feedback that shine heavenly light onto the wan, academic corpse of avant-garde minimalism. In the middle, all sorts of hell breaks loose: Coloccia chants wordless omens on a distant shore, Turner shouts his lungs out, Lehtisalo speaks in tongues from atop synthesized snowbanks, Rättö gargles operatic gibberish, hummingbird guitars flutter past, and delicate chords glisten like dewdrops on Arctic lichen. Much of this earthly ruckus stems from additional sessions spent brainstorming, fine-tuning, cooking, and stoking the sauna at the Lehtisalo family cottage, deep in rural Finland. (A couple of months later via the miracle of technology, Eyvind Kang tacked on a spot of viola while visiting Turner and Coloccia at their Washington state abode.)
Instead of engaging in some lazy superstar jam, Mamiffer and Circle have gone above and beyond to create a site-specific triumph that bridges the gap between serene, holy bliss and the warm, messy sprawl of humanity. Amen to that, brothers and sisters.
Jordan N. Mamone, New York City
June 21, 2013
credits
released September 16, 2013
Circle on this recording: Jussi Lehtisalo & Mika Rättö.
Mamiffer on this recording: Faith Coloccia & Aaron Turner.
Viola on Kaksonen 1: Eyvind Kang.
Recorded by Antti Uusimäki at the Central Pori Church (Keski-Porin Kirkko), and at the Rattkeller, Finland. Mixed by Antti Uusimäki. Additional recording by A.Turner at the House of Low Culture, Vashon, WA, USA. Mastered by James Plotkin.
This record was made using the Great Paschen Organ.
Design by musta kirahvi.
Photography, drawing and painting by Faith Coloccia.
Lyrics/words by Turner, Rättö, Lehtisalo.
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"Recorded during SUNN O)))s European tour 2005, culminating at Roskilde Festival, Denmark" : laissez-moi vous dire qu'il n'y a pas que cette tournée qui arrive à son point culminant mais aussi Sunn O))) d'un point de vue général car Solstitium Fulminate, qui sert d'appendice à Black One, est un monument qui conjugue noirceur vampirique avec une certaine forme d'absolu. Le ton musical plonge très vite dans les graves pour nous faire entrer dans le royaume de la mort. Attila Csihar est un Charon. Nocturnal Egg (Jordan)
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This track, Something for the Mrs.brings a picture of Earth without people and only this record going on repeat on the radio. Frightening and calming at the same time
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An absolutely pummeling assault of thick sludgy riffs, guttural rumbles, and tribal drums. Listening to this album is like being slowly buried by an avalanche. Practically makes Isis sound like Top 40 pop music by comparison. mattgraupman
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