grykë pyje

grykë pyje ~ collision and coalescence (mappa, 2019)

The missed seed of cryptobotany music. Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) reconstruct the mesmerizing world of the Grykë Pyje swamp tribe. Vinyl in your hands is a ceremonial sonification of the sacred herbarium, painted myths of the animal kingdom and voices behind the thicket. mappa

As it usually goes without saying with these two wild magicians from the woods, right from the starts we are here to experience maximum weirdness, off-charts musicality, undercover psychonautics and extraterrestrial invocations. All those voices and bloops and blips and warped geometries of cryptobotany music are definitely meant not for everyone, at least if you approach music from the consumer's perspective. For relaxing, background chill, for sleeping, or just for fun ~ it always says something about what we are expecting from music but not about what we can give to it ourselves. Of course, there's an established ritual of exchanging impressions received from sound to a certain amount of paper with certain pictures and symbols on it given to the persons who made those sounds. Which is even weirder, if you look at this ritual from the perspective of some alien visitor, knowing not much about our planet. It's logical, yes ~ but the fact that those weird and often not really beautiful pictures will later be exchanged again, and again, and again, our visiting Jacques-Ive of interplanetary travels will probably lose the track of it ~ right the way I just did while pursuing the analogy to the point of tripping out of it because of some sudden change in music. So nevermind, let's just say everything is weird if you're an outsider to the process, and everything makes perfect sense if you're an attentive insider. Same as Voynich Manuscript, this music leads you to some guesses and hints are everywhere but without a master key to unlock the meaning of it all.

Let's just decide if we are outsiders or insiders here because there's a choir calling to a mystic inside myself while some gnome voice persuades that I should rather have some ale and give my body a rest in this glorious moss bed... Of course, I'd love to do both but that analogy thing from the first part keeps flying around like a truly annoying bee. So yes, let's say that despite any weirdness, what really matters to alien observation is the fact of interaction itself and whether he's a botanist of mathematician or astrophysicist, he'll see that the process of interaction creates all those symbols, images, sounds. And that weirdness, which surrounds them is only a fog of an unknown semantics. Every symbol exists to meaning, while mosses and ferns are simply are. Or pretend to? Okay, here we need some highly experienced insider to infiltrate the fern kingdom and mosses universe to find out. Care to volunteer? 

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grykë pyje

grykë pyje ~ fragments of high sensitivity (ikuisuus / hyster tapes, 2016)

After nice tape released at Ginjoha almost four years ago, Jani Hirvonen (well know as Uton) and Johannes Schebler (same, as Baldruin) made a glorious return with exquisitely decorated vinyl, which looks like illustration from famous "Kunstformen der Natur" book. And same can be said about music – huge universe of tiny sounds dancing around the head in constant changing, meticulous mix of bright sparkles and huge atmospheric phenomena. All you now about Baldruin goes here in weird manner of Uton's world and from the very first moments of this album you are somewhere deep in thickets, surrounded by mossy giants. Trail is lost, but that is completely okay... Whole planet's life can be found in the scale of tiny drop water, evolution repeats its pattern at each and every step of magnification. Would it be whole galaxy or just your backyard, something is going on there all the time. This album reflects this ever-unfolding ornament of life with soulful naturalism and not without humour. Some may call it "noise", but it's too subtle. Maybe ambient? Nope, too cacophonous. Folk? Missed again! There are strong feeling of something archaic about it, which makes "Fragments of High Sensitivity" definitely pre-something, proto-music of some kind. Like those radiolaria in the "Kunstformen" – tiny and fragile inhabitants of the oceans for the last 500 million years, creatures of amazing symmetry. What they heard when there were no people on this planet? Symphony of life, unfolding in every direction. It's easy to imagine during this stunningly beautiful cacophony, which reveals new secrets every time you listen to it.

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uton / antti tolvi / lieven m. moana

uton ~ ummet ja lammet (ikuisuus, 2015)

«Experimental electronic studies with psychedelic flavours. Connections to the cosmic currents and invisible beings from the other worlds and dimensions, our collective dimension included. Music to help listener to breathe through its energy centers (chakras), or even from the core of the existence. Sounds to travel in astral ways, and explore the unknown, eyes closed or open - works well with both ways». ikuisuus

I always felt something ironic behind those weird sounds of Uton. Flirting with new age terms and ideas and still remaining truly Finnish noise in composition & sound – I can clearly imagine some yoga coach woman playing this tape in afternoon patio for her pupils... Eyes closed, all sitting in lotus posture... Listening to true inner selves... And suddenly alien invasion begins, starting from that patio: huge UFOs descending out of nowhere, lasers blasting all over the place, screams and panic and that tape continues to roll meanwhile. 

Maybe I listened too much new age tapes from '80s, but seriously – what meditation and yoga practice have in common with these collages of weird noises, playful sound effects and overall atmosphere of kindergarten merriment? But okay, let's not be boring and say that this tape is actual true and 100% new age, but from another solar system. Why not? We sent them gold plate with Bach, after all... If you ever read to vedic literature, it says that there are billions of planets with different kinds of intelligent creatures, but all of them share idea of Hinduism in a way, all being part of Brahman creation and Vedic cosmology. So, if we have chakras and they do, maybe we should establish connection not with prohibitively expensive antennas and computers, but in meditation state? Same energy, same vibrations, only different languages. But prana is universal, meditation state is universal, so let's use it as new internet! Actually, I almost sure that Jani Hirvonen already does it in his cosy apartment. And maybe they already here, among us. Who knows? The truth is out there. 

 

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antti tolvi / lieven m. moana ~ tolvi moana (edicoes cn, 2015)

«To get to know the people, is to walk in their footsteps. Thus by walking Corvo Island’s only road, the Estrada Do Caldeirão, I entered the mind of her dwellers». lieven m. moana

«The idea for these pieces came up when I heard Lieven’s side – early version – for this split cassette. The idea was to make music which is the same as, and also totally different from Lieven’s side. I decided to make different set ups with my analog synths, and let them play themselves. Then do field recordings out of those». antti tolvi

Many artists are working with field recording genre nowadays. Why not, when it seems so easy – buy recorder, go to some place exotic, keep your mouth shut and ears open. But, of course, this is only the surface. There are many field recordings serving as documentation of places and events, released without any editing. And there is completely different thing, when field recordings are used as composition material: not as sample, which may be processed through many effects, but as an instrument itself. Idea is not new, there are some huge names like Francisco López or Slawek Kwi working that way, but work of Lieven M. Moana is probably something different, and not only because he prefers tape recorders and lo-fi aesthetics. Moana creates certain mythology, timeless presence of something bigger than just impression of the place. His recordings have pauses of silence, where you can actually feel more. Going back to John Cage's idea that music is everywhere where listener is, Moana finds another dimension of ever-present listener. He explores it, while visiting geographic locations and finds harmonic interaction between being subjective composer and detached field recordist. We don't have to be educated to feel harmony in things, but sometimes we need someone who will point at it. When  pause appear, you start hearing your own "island" – the one you live in. Have you listened to it today? 

And this brings us to the idea behind Antti Tolvi side of this tape – recording his synths playing themselves. Okay, he admits that failed in being independent observer and turned some knobs during the process, but this is what we do, when we walk away from crowded street, isn't it? Always turning knobs of our aural environment, we may forget doing that, thinking that everything just happens. Which brings us to John Cage again – if we found some sounds musical and other not, we acting like egoists, judging things for being noisy or uninteresting. Try to listen something you find unpleasant for your ears and ask yourself why you don't like it. Okay, this may go far into philosophy, and what we actually have on this tape is nice analogue drones and psychedelic ambient passages between them. But listening to this after Lieven's side makes difference. I can imagine these sounds being field recordings of some astronomical scale location, showing the huge picture of million-year-old nebula evolution with galaxies swirling all around it. And yes, I find it much more ear-pleasing than my neighbours yelling behind the wall. Am I egoist?

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terlu / uton / wave temples

 wave temples ~ in the shade of the island (dept tapes, 2013)

 

 devotional astral island music cult esoteric minimal experimental 

nature recording meditational ocean jazz

por favor...que dejen de salir tantas cintas bonitas juntas, no hay tiempo material y sé que me repito como la cebolla. nueva hornada de Field Studies y Worn Habit, nuevo disco de x.r.y en el horizonte y mil delicias más que nos recuerdan que el verano no se ha ido del todo, que aún nos quedan días cálidos por disfrutar. lloro de emoción con este hornada perfecta de department tapes, con sus diseños y tipografías estupendas y el gusto exquisito a la hora de elegir muy cuidosamente lo que editan. coherencia, mimo y minimalismo. evasión de qualité que, en un mundo menos feo y con más gusto que éste, les llevaría a agotar todas las copias en un segundo. primero jccg y ahora estos tres tesoros. pero Terlu es un mundo aparte. no, qué digo, Uton y Wave Temples también son un mundo aparte. algo que podría llamarse weird lounge si eso existe y es posible. es música ratonil y tropical que desprende esa sensación de libertad creativa absolutamente amateur que también tienen cetacean nation cassettes, pacific city, taped sounds,... incansables buscadores de lo exótico y lo diminuto, de los sonidos que son texturas y que lo colorean todo, del máximo impacto con el mínimo impacto. 

Wave Temples ya me había enamorado con 'breathing under water in three movements', cuyas dos canciones forman parte de 'in the shade of the island' (escuchad con atención lo que ocurre ~o no ocurre~ aquí a partir del minuto 2:42....:') y con su anterior cinta en Rainbow Pyramid (todo está unido). y vuelve a hacerlo con esta preciosidad para lo que no puedo decir mucho que no haya dicho antes. composiciones somnolientas y deslabazadas... apuntes, sueños, ráfagas, esbozos, retazos. todo flota, todo es abstracto e intangible, cada nota parece suspendida en el aire, ingrávida, acogedora y siempre, cuando se acaba, sientes que necesitas más.

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 terlu ~ noyo arbor (dept tapes, 2013)

'noyo harbor' (un puerto rodeado de árboles y colinas) es la belleza dividida en dos partes de apenas diez minutos cada una. dos canciones recogidas y llenas de pequeñas sorpresas. la primera se sostiene sobre un trémulo piano rescatado de 1880. una suite ambiental destartalada y evocadora que suena a gloria, de un contenido lírico y romántico inusitado que te atrapa a poco que dejes el resto de cosas de lado y te entregues. y la segunda es un pequeño mandala de lánguidas notas de sintetizador con ecos del omnipresente Spencer Clark. música que fluye, que hace cosquillas, infradiminuta, sutil, delicada, dulcísima. Terlu es ya otra debilidad.

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uton ~ kähe (dept tapes, 2013)

 "Uton arrived into our earthly presence in 2001. It happened in Tampere, Finland. Since that it's been transporting mysterious and cosmic visions to our life. Uton is reality, and the reality is Uton."

cada día más firme la convicción de que Jani Hirvonen es un alien. nuestro alien favorito. él sí que no da a basto con tantas cintas, cd-rs y vinilos editados. imposible abarcarlo todo. y seguro que cientos de canciones inéditas que almacena en su habitación. mi fascinación, casi diez años más tarde, se mantiene intacta. y así seguirá si vuelve a regalarnos tonadillas primitivas y encantadoras como 'kyrpos' o 'kest', que es Uton al cien por cien: surrealismo mágico susurrado con irresistible toque finés y cierto aroma a los delirios electrónicos de Delia Derbyshire, Raymond Scott y Daphne Oram. casi al mismo tiempo que salía su anterior cinta en makrame, de repente otras treinta canciones maravillosas e indefinibles que duran un suspiro (ninguna llega a los dos minutos), treinta sonidos del más allá o de la tierra y sus ancestros, en donde puedes oir desde radios mal sintonizadas hasta la trompeta de Rene Kita, kalimbas, flautas, pajaritos, melodías sublime frequencies, acoples, retransmisiones desde otros planetas...en su mundo, rústico y reciclado, todo puede ocurrir.

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uton

 uton ~ say hello to the butterflies 3'' (makrame, 2013)

"deep sounds recorded under the sea... hearing this you can reach the depth of the ocean"

"Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen, hailing from Tampere, Finland. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases.

the music of Uton is drawing inspirations from psychedelia to free jazz to pure ecstatic drones and noises using a wide range of acoustic instruments from various parts of the globe and a bulk of electronics. recorded in glorious lo-fi the mystery of Hirvonen's sound is difficult to pinpoint; sheer ravishing beauty, elegancy and variegation is stashed behind a wall of grey, inscrutable haze ~ gorgeous melodies and voices, reeds and alien sounds gleaming through the mist from time to time, shimmering like diamonds through layers of dust." fma

un puñado de misteriosas mini sinfonías marinas y frecuencias alienígenas muy Louis & Bebe Barron. Jani Hirvonen, tantos años ofreciendo discos preciosos...

dibujo: paul flanderky

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uton / sunhiilow

uton / sunhiilow ~ garden & cosmos split (om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam, 2013)

"split release by Jani Hirvonen (Uton) & Valérie Magisson (Sunhiilow), cassette version is an edition of 40 copies, and 15 first copies come with a sea star skeleton found from Goa, India. Handmade sleeves. A cloth pocket including a mini book"

...y otra preciosidad de la mano de Jani Hirvonen y Valérie Magisson. parte de la emoción que tiene recomendar una cinta tan especial (las quince primeras copias vienen con una estrella de mar de la India y un mini libro purificado con incienso tibetano) es comprobar que a veces hay duendes que perciben exactamente las mismas cosas que tú y que podrías suscribir punto por punto cada palabra suya. cuánta razón tiene Tim Pied Paper cuando dice de 'a new beginning' que es imposible cubrir todo el espectro de sensaciones que despierta la música de Sunhiilow. algo que ocurre más que nunca en 'garden & cosmos', veintidós canciones cortitas e imaginativas que junto a las de Jani Hirvonen van más allá de un simple collage de sensaciones. 

todas las experiencias de ese viaje a la India de Valérie están aquí. 'cosmos' de Sunhiillow es ideal para ilustrar un paseo en canoa por las aguas de Alappuzha o simplemente para cerrar los ojos y soñar que estás allí. un remanso de belleza que consigue transmitir esa contínua calidez y espiritualidad hindú a cada segundo que pasa, a cada arrullo, cadencia, instrumento de viento o sintetizador celestial. son tantos sus aciertos y su magia... 'aurore astrale' me recuerda al sinuoso y repetitivo sintetizador que nunca estalla de Charlatan meets the North Sea y 'equinoxe' y 'moon stone' a las runas mágicas de Tara Burke ('la respiración circular de un teclado'), pero 'tucana's light' es el cielo, notas como gotas de lluvia que caen desde muy arriba sobre el póster en marco dorado de Eden Ahbez. suena también como la portada, a corales y a tesoros marinos, a playas imaginarias, a lluvias monzónicas y a millones de colores vistos a través del caleidoscopio del entrañable Bruce Haack. siempre pienso que cada disco de Valérie es más bonito que el anterior, algo que parecía casi imposible después del split con Baldruin. y también pienso que es más y se merece más de lo que realmente tiene, como Salvador/M.M. Peres. todo en ella es como una oda a la música casera y al háztelo tú mismo, siempre en pequeñas dosis, que en muy pocas ocasiones llegan a canciones, quedándose en el esbozo o simplemente en el delirio sonoro: 'jaguar's vision' y 'astral asteroidea'.

'garden' de Uton dibuja una especie de jungla cósmica que huele a humedad. pura experimentación de percusión finesa ideal para ilustrar un descenso en canoa por el río Amazonas. a veces es inevitable preguntarse qué sentido tiene explicar lo inexplicable, poner en palabras una música tan fácil de visualizar pero tan difícil de definir. pero cuando escuchas canciones tan bonitas como 'macaws', 'polygone', 'jumalan läsnä' o 'tucana's lights' o 'revelation of nammu'...ay, cómo explicar tanta belleza, que tienen esa gravedad especial que te empuja a ponerlas una y otra vez y donde siempre hay algún detalle que pide a gritos unos auriculares y una bicicleta y un día soleado, las dudas se disipan al instante. de cuando los detalles y los matices pasan incomprensiblemente desapercibidos para unos y pesan tanto en otros y cada canción podría formar parte del compilado perfecto. es una suerte que Jani y Valérie se hayan conocido porque seguro que es el principio de muchas cosas bonitas.

sé que no suelo ser objetiva cuando algo me gusta tanto y que me cuesta poner en perspectiva lo que un disco de Uton y Sunhiilow puede significar con el tiempo, pero sí sé que es el tipo de música que siempre quiero escuchar y que de Valérie espero ansiosa cualquier disco suyo. y que el tiempo no podrá nunca con canciones tan atemporales e imaginativas y tan de cuento como las suyas. estoy convencida de que cualquier amante de la library music o de 'science of the sea' debería llorar de felicidad con este split. y de que al acabar 'apsú' y a su vez la cinta, recordarás de nuevo esa frase que decía: 'hay otros mundos pero están en éste'. no sé si llegará muy lejos, espero, quiero, deseo que sí, pero esta cajita con funda de tela amarilla figurará como destacada en mi lista de favoritos del año.

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uton

uton ~ echoes in the wonderland lp (dnt/ikuisuus, 2012)

"Echoes in the Wonderland" is the first full-length LP by Finland's Jani Hirvonen since 2009's "Unexplained Objects" and is no less weird than his previous excursions from the outer regions of the cosmos to the minds' innerspace. something deliciously nocturnal and otherworldly. as the album title could say, this is a way to the "wonderland" which shouldn't be mixed with the adventure's of the famous Alice ~ though it might give some idea about what is going to happen, but that's just the start of it all ~ the start of nothing else but listener's mind. what are the "echoes" then? they are something which is coming from beyond to here where we stay ~ so the album is a link between these worlds; inside outside; like they are working together. psychedelic transmissions of conciousness.

It's been recorded in Bretagne, France, using old school four-track tape recorded for catching the sound from sources, like electric guitar, synths, percussions & vocals. sound is mostly improvised, multi-layered experimentations, made for headphone listening (other ways are possible too), letting go; eyes closed if possible. something relaxing, something a bit noisy & out of mind, something strange... something where a mind can wander in peace." dnt / uton

cuánto echábamos de menos a Jani Hirvonen, uno de nuestros finlandeses favoritos. su discografía es inmensa pero echoes in the wonderland, que llega justo en el momento adecuado, es para mí lo más bonito y asbtracto que ha hecho nunca con permiso de Grykë Pyje. puedo casi oirle diciendo que echoes in wonderland es un cuento para niños recién salido del catálogo acuático de Library Music. todas sus canciones despiertan el misterio de la infancia, la fascinación, abrir los ojos de par en par y ver dioses y espíritus surgiendo de la noche, monstruos marinos, medusas, calamares gigantes, corales, sirenas, un tren surcando el mar...emprender el viaje y disfrutar de esta alucinación sonora, epopeya experimental donde Jani invoca tradición folk y electrónica para transformarlas en una experiencia sensorial indescriptible. todo es perfecto, la portada pintada a mano por Jani, los títulos sugerentes y marinos, el ambiente, un tempo que nos desliza o nos suspende, hipnotizados por la exhuberancia de cada ruidito extraño (texturas, efectos, didjeridoos, percusiones, gongs, flautillas, el viento, los grillos, trinos alienígenas, burbujas, campanillas,...). como Lewis Carroll, Jani eleva el cuento infantil a la categoría de obra de arte, un verdadero artesano del sonido capaz de conjugar magia, maestría, humanidad, sueño y realidad e imaginación infinita.

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grykë pyje

gryke pyje ~ callings from nowhere (ginjoha tapes, 2012)

"everybody is looking for Wonderland as Dreams of frenzy. Grykë Pyje is strange duo of Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin)" ginjoha tapes

llevo unos minutos sentada delante de la pantalla intentando decir algo sobre 'callings from nowhere' y no hay manera. despertando a los espíritus, visiones de libélulas, sendero fantasma, pareidolia, contactos confusos, bendiciones aurales, epifanía bajo la luna llena. nada más. todo está en los títulos. cada canción es tan bonita que cuesta marcharse de ella hacia la siguiente. ¿cómo transmitir la belleza de una canción de cuento como 'deep soul twinkle'? 'forest breath', la respiración del bosque, resume la esencia de este encuentro de dos personas que sin saberlo ya estaban unidas, se acerca como ninguna a la sensación de adentrarse en un bosque encantado y húmedo de la mano de Charles Burns y Tara Burke, como si fuesen dejando miguitas por el camino para que no les perdamos de vista. intrumentación sencilla y tintineante y ronroneos suaves, Jani y Johannes, que parece tocado por una varita mágica si nos acordamos de su preciosa colaboración con Sunhiilow, dan cuerda a esta cajita musical recostados en sus hamacas, allí es donde componen e improvisan, flotando y balanceándose, lanzando ondas sónicas ululantes para contactar con los espíritus, dejando brotar nueve canciones como nueve soles o como polvo mágico de hadas para impregnarte de felicidad. un disco realmente bonito, de los que florecen cuando deben, en el momento adecuado, para recordarte el valor musical de las fuerzas de la naturaleza, de lo hermoso y lo inabarcable, mezclando la estructura del folk tradicional con las brumas densas siempre con un fondo de surrealismo y el ambient acogedor de todo lo que solemos encontrar en el sello de Buchikamashi. otro disco para poner en bucle y no dejar que se acabe nunca. o para quedarse atrapada en 'waking the spirits'.

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sunhiilow

 sunhiilow ~ from there to here (self~released, 2012)

"sunhiilow is telling stories about echoes and odd imaginations from the lost cultures, exploring landscapes of tribal pulse and mythic lullabies. the music reflects the brightness of life and the darkness of the consciousness... its vibrations are connected to the abyssal zone to the celestial sphere, even the silence is audible. together We are One." valérie magisson

"all sounds by Valérie Magisson. mastering help by Jani Hirvonen. recorded in Rennes, France, 2012."

en la lista de discos especiales, de personas también muy especiales, sunhiilow ocupa un lugar muy alto. hace unos meses había dejado una entrada en el blog con lo que en aquel momento era la maqueta, por eso me hizo tanta ilusión recibir por fin la noticia de que ya estaba listo, con cuatro canciones nuevas, en descarga gratuita y la intención de hacer una versión en cdr limitada a cuarenta copias.

su música es tan extremadamente bonita, tan calm in trees, tan inner islands, que todo lo que pueda decir seguro que es repetitivo. 'from there to here' es otro disco clima, esa realidad paralela en la que siempre te gustaría vivir, meditativo y relajante. hay sintetizadores y drones sin fin pero todo es cristalino, respira, es luminoso y elegante... los títulos hablan por sí solos, leerlos y escucharlos es como adentrarse en una película de apichatpong weerasethakul o un paseo en barca entre  selvas tropicales. 'le songe d'hacolhii', 'magic turquoise', 'through the green' ( 'i was most probably far away in time when I made this one'), 'sparkling dreams' (brumosa y evocadorísima)..todas consiguen detener el tiempo, literalmente. campanillas, voces, ecos que parecen venir desde varias direcciones y desde muy lejos, acordeones, pianos, triángulos, percusiones, flautas, órganos, gongs y libélulas flotando sobre un fondo de drones en un viaje imaginario por oriente, el nepal y sus tradiciones. la realidad paralela de valérie magisson. y lo mejor de todo es que "a second is coming soon... !".  ojalá que esta vez no tarde tanto :)

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tulasi

tulasi ~ s/t (ikuisuus 2011)

"new ethereal recordings by the finnish duo of Kulkija (Uton, Keijo & The Free Players, Vapaa…) and Kutomo. Waves of flutes, voices and bubbling ambience drifting away on a soft whispered breeze blowing it out into thin cool air." sloow tapes

"this is gorgeous haunting music, easily at atmospheric as the Free Players stuff but with a totally different character. it sounds ancient and ghostly, like forest spirits floating in dense air. Lovely stuff." boa melody bar

collage: fugga

olo olemattomuudessa (mp3 sample)

uusi aika (mp3 sample)

para ir haciendo boca dos discos como dos soles: 

huomen tuone y tulasi~maa autaa (sloow tapes2007) 

keijo & uton

keijo & uton ~ alun ääniä (om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam 2009)

"space ambient drones meets the blues, simple and out there" om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam

"first duo collaboration of keijo & uton. here is seven songs of droney and spacey blues jams, sometimes far away in cosmos, sometimes rockin' the ground again"

armónicas, palos de lluvia, percusiones, pajarindos...no podemos pedir más, el encuentro perfecto y soñado

foto: eylowrance

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saturn finger

saturn finger ~ s/t (crier dans les musées 2009)

"Debut release for Saturn Finger (Enfer Boréal + Uton), recorded during winter 2007 / 2008, previously released as a very limited tour cdr during their last France / UK / Netherlands tour. Psychedelic drone, mystic chants, shamanistic percussion...those tracks were made looking a the far east where both SF members spent some time wandering and listening. uton hidden in the sea of wind" crier dans les musées

foto: lady in the radiator

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tulasi

tulasi - huomen tuone (bumtapes 2009)

"Bumtapes is proud to give you another chance to hear this incredible album, plus another previously unreleased track from the same sessions, and with all new artwork. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 118 copies by Troglosound in 2008 (now totally sold out) Finland’s Tulasi crafted an album drenched in Eastern drones and Finnish backroad folk meditations. The two musicians who make up the band have also featured in bands such as Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players, Aan, Uton, Kulkija and Kutomo. And have also previously released a cassette on Sloow tapes.

To quote the original write up for the LP...."One of the most harmonic expressions of spiritual freak-folk coming out from Finland, Tulasi spreads around warm and positive feelings, created through spontaneous junctions of flute, guitar, violin, percussions, tambura and voices. So, the perfect sound to bring our Souls peacefully inside the wintertime is coming directly from the North”. bumtapes

foto: neil krug

maravilloso de la pe a la pa y en especial untitled V

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tulasi

tulasi - maa autaa (sloow tapes cassette 2007)

"Ethereal recordings by the duo of Kulkija (Uton, Keijo & The Free Players, Vapaa…) and Kutomo. Waves of flutes, voices and bubbling ambience drifting away on a soft whispered breeze blowing it out into thin cool air. Artwork by the band in an edition of 90 copies." sloow tapes

"Tulasi are a Finnish duo featuring Kulkija (Uton, Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players) and Kutomo." . This is gorgeous haunting music, easily at atmospheric as the Free Players stuff but with a totally different character, maybe more similar to Xenis Emputae Travelling Band. It sounds ancient and ghostly, like forest spirits floating in dense air. Lovely stuff." Boa Melody Bar

way of the cross

way of the cross - mind of the dolphin (phoenix vinyl 2008)

"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."

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aan meets eyes like saucers

aan meets eyes like saucers - kristallivirta (lvd 2008)

"West meets North in this live recording, historic meeting between former Urdog keyboardist (Jeff K.) and Aan (Uton + Kulkija). West meets North and mostly produces music that is either wildly experimental or traditionally psychedelic in that Angus MacLise sort of way. Challenging, weird, and at moments reminiscient of Angus MacLise..." lvd

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uton

uton - mystery revolution (digitalis, 2006)
 

"Uton is a genius & I always love his art, album titles & cryptic noise mud-slides. Great forestdrone, shortwave, bowed guitars? ... I don't know what he uses, but it all sounds mysterious & subconscious, dreamlike."--Glenn Donaldson, Jewelled Antler

"Tampere, Finland has become quite the musical hotbed over the past few years. Staples like Avarus and Kemialliset Ystävät make their beds in the gnome-infested waters throughout the city. Uton is perhaps the country's best kept secret. Mystery Revolution is a sonic excursion through the Finnish forests unlike any other. Massive drones are balanced by the hypnotic dance of flutes, bells, and keyboards. Underneath everything runs a mind-altering stream of fuzzed-out brainwaves. Every corner you turn, there's another smiling nymph, begging you to follow the golden path into the mystic woods. Uton's minimalist rumblings are there to infect and enchant, and Hirvonen never fails to impress. The mask is off with Mystery Revolution, and Uton will remain shrouded in obscurity no more. This pine-scented excursion may be mysterious on the surface, but overall is a thing of beauty, lying in wait for the perfect time to infect you. Mystery Revolution is proof that Uton's dreamy soundscapes are one of Finland's finest exports."

buscando lazos con las cosas más básicas del mundo, como la luna y el sol, Jani Hirvonen (Uton) cultiva un folk espacial que se estropea cuando tratas de describirlo con palabras. su sueño es condensar en un túnel acolchado y sonoro el corazón del bosque, llegar a través de sus nocturnas grabaciones imposibles a lo que existe y a lo que no. búhos, ondas expansivas de platillos volantes, drones, pedales y subfrecuencias, árboles que hablan, húmedos paisajes bucólicos, vibráfonos, Finlandia,...todo a muy baja fidelidad, moviéndose en círculo, como dormido, cruzando la puerta sin abrirla, atrayéndote hacia el centro. viendo las fotos, las portadas, escuchando su música, tengo la misma sensación que Glenn Donaldson. Jani no es de este mundo, ni de Finlandia, ni tan siquiera un 'habitante del mundo', sino una criatura de los bosques de ninguna parte. un alien

aan

aan - salamaa (ikuisuus cdr, 2006)

'Aan is a duo by Kulkija and Uton. These recordings are from their first meetings ever (at least in these psychophysical bodies) in Helsinki and Tampere, late 2004. Music is full of strange sounds and dark atmospheres, deeply in the very heart of the so-called mystical forrest folk illusion. Astral travelling, dreams from the other side... some beings in the source, dancing their song for life, death & mysteries.' 

disco concebido en el mismísimo corazón del bosque, adictivo y envolvente. es el sonido naturaleza, de las gotas de agua, de la humedad, de las cuevas, de los arroyos, de los charcos que se forman después de una lluvia torrencial. flautas y murmullos, drones que de tan delicados hacen cosquillas, grillos, búhos, campanillas...el clima. y aunque sólo la mitad de la mitad de lo que diga sea verdad, salamaa seguirá siendo un disco maravilloso.