tulasi

tulasi ~ exotic cocktail party (ikuisuus, 2012)

"exotic cocktail party; appetizer salad. moving magnetic tape. ether weaving sound tapestries. belly-dancers who disappear at the blink of an eye. bulgur with a snake of paradise wriggling in it. the rhythm of movement and breathing. 19th century orientalism in the 21st century Finland. an eye emerging from a beautiful hand. on top of the buffet enjoyed a day standing, but very extracted coffee." 

"perfectly described as Kutomo and Kulkija make music with Alice in Wonderland. rhythm carries everything slimey and bazaars gets on fire. sometimes pure madness, sometimes calm as sleeping corn field. not the duality, diversity. this flower pot carries every seed in new Noah's ark."

music & sounds by Tulasi: Ikävalko & Koho
recorded at Metsälä and Kallio, Helsinki, Finland in 2011-2012.
same tracks on both sides.

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glowstone

glowstone • todo está bien, todo va a estar bien [self release, 2011]

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las grabaciones caseras molan. son cercanas y reales. como el viento en la cara, como el pío de las aves o la mirada de tu gato o gata preferida ^.^

fotola: el nejo

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) 

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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the free players

the free players - the free players (last visible dog, 2006)

The Free Players are a super-group of featuring members of Finnish free-jazz pawnpins Vapaa, Kheta Hotem, Kundalini Snakes and the venerable Keijo Virtanen. While previous documents of this band exist, this is apparently the more democratic version (no longer is it 'Keijo and the Free Players'), a shift documented by the more accessible sound here.

What we have here is an hour long set of jams that seems more reminiscent of Floyd and the Dead than what we've come to expect from Keijo's previous output. Wild guitar leads and wailing sax (nevermind the space-organ) reveals immediately what cloth this recording has been cut from -- which is to say that The Free Players is a true psychedelic album!" last visible dog

foto: coquinete

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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

landscape vol. I: the forest

va - landscape I the forest (centre of wood 2008)

"Forestes, the most important influence for "Centre of Wood" label, of every kind and in every part of the world, are a magic place where to get lost and then find our deep relation with the nature. 14 bands from the acoustic, drone, lo-fi and free folk underground called to rappresent through music their relation with these places. The result is this cd-r that contains more than 60 minutes of weird music. The projects and the bands involved are : Tim Coster; Donato Epiro; Nebelung; Vapaa; Chora; Aalto; throuRoof; Eyes like Saucers; The Katie Winter; Belly Boat; Prague; Es; Las Vegas Club; We Wait for the Snow. Listening to this compilation is like getting lost in a immense green forest, walking through its trees, meet the eyes of its creatures...The packaging is composed of a brown and green heavy cardboard, closed with a small branch and a brown cotton thread, with an insert in perfect d.i.y. old style. limited to 120 numbered copies" centre of wood

por y para fans :)

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discos 2007

01. panda bear - person pitch (paw tracks)

02. asa irons & swann miller - s/t (spirit of orr)
03. james blackshaw - the cloud of unknowing (tompkins square)

04. hush arbors - under bent limb trees (digitalis reissue)

05. fursaxa - alone in the dark wood (eclipse)

06. wooden wand - james and the quiet (ecstatic peace)

07. valerio cosi - freedom meditation music vol. 1 (students of decay)

08. matt valentine & erika elder - mars delta (child of microtones)

09. barn owl - bridge to the clouds (self-released 2007) *download*

10. pocahaunted - rough magic (blackest rainbow) *download*

11. mike tamburo - dance enis dance (barlfire)

12. akron/family - love is simple (young god)

13. richard youngs - autumn response (jagjaguwar) *download*

14. joshua burkett - where's my hat (feather one's nest)

15. no-neck blues band - meets the clear people with mystery gypped live at ken's electric lake (locust)

16. hala strana - heave the gambrel roof (music fellowship)

17. voice of the seven woods - s/t (twisted nerve)

18. pulga - pulga loves you (fire museum)

19. vapaa - hum hum hum (last visible dog)

20. davenport family - at the foot of zodiac mountain (meudiademorte)
21. bill callahan - woke on a whaleheart (drag city)

22. cubs - stonewater (rusted rail 3 inch cdr)

23. amber lions - pink panther blood (house of alchemy)

24. six organs of admittance - shelter from the ash (drag city) *download*

25. electrelane - no shouts, no calls (too pure)

26. valerio cosi - freedom meditation music vol. 3 (cdr) *download*

27. fabio orsi & valerio cosi - not used not seen (root don)

28. goldmund - two point discrimination (western vinyl) *download*

29. kuupuu - unilintu (dekorder lp) *download*

30. starbird - nanook of the north (sloow tapes) *download*

31. grails - burning off impurities (temporary residence)

32. joanna newsom - & the ys street band (drag city)

33. silvester anfang - echte vlaamse geiten (eclipse)

34. pefkin - lie on the ground and breathe (cook an egg)

35. jana hunter - there's no home (gnomonsong)

36. pocahaunted & robedoor - hunted gathering (digitalis)

37. hush arbors - live, heeley institute, sheffield (blackest rainbow)

38. meg baird - dear companion (drag city) *download*

39. michael flower - returning to knowing nothing (qbico)

40. christina carter & pocahaunted - split (not not fun vinyl)

41. glenn jones - against which the sea continually beats (strange attractors)

42. volcano the bear - amidst the noise and twigs (beta-lactam ring) *download*

43. ghq - crystal healing (three lobed vinyl)

44. wooden wand - more from the mountain 7'' (release the bats)

45. mariee sioux - faces in the rocks (grass roots)

46. hush arbors & wooden wand - swappin' (great pop supplement 7 inch vinyl)

47. pantaleimon - mercy oceans (durtro) *download*

48. tom carter & robert horton - monsters of felt (preservation)

49. kemialliset ystävät - s/t (fonal) *download*

50. the trees community - the christ tree (hand-eye records reissue)

51. giant skyflower band - blood of the sunworm (soft abuse)

52. tom carter & christian kiefer - a rather solemn promise (great pop supplement)

53. headdress - turquoise (totem songs)

54. twinsistermoon - levels and crossings (self-released) *download*

55. the golden oaks - paradise (music fellowship reissue)

56. tom carter - whispers toward infinity (wholly other)

57. cloaks - a crystal skull in peru (atheistsa records)

58. mike tamburo - language of the birds & other fantasies (music fellowship)

59. isengrind - golestan (tiliqua)

60. claypipe, pekko kappi, the blithe sons - the amazed map (music fellowship)

61. harris newman - decorated (strange attractors)

62. lost in hildurness - mount a (12 tonar)

63. islaja - ulual yyy (fonal)

64. visitations - s/t (time-lag)

65. pj harvey - white chalk (island)

66. rio en medio - the bride of dynamite (gnomonsong)

67. richard youngs & tirath singh nirmala - s/t (hp cycle vinyl)

68. julianna barwick - sanguine (self-released)

69. anna kallio & rokkiryhma - balladi neidosta joka rakasti varjoritaria-sinenmaa (sloow tapes)

70. uton and valerio cosi - kaarmeenkaantopiiri (fire museum)

71. eluvium - copia (temporary residence)

72. the valerie project - the valerie project (drag city) *click & click*

73. siren - living light (buried valley)

74. josé gonzález - in our nature (peacefrog mute)

75. devendra banhart - smokey rolls down thunder canyon (xl)

76. tight meat duo - vanishing fist (bo' weavil)

77. terracid - pinnacles upon aesthetes in glorious rows (mymwly)

78. religious knives - remains (no fun productions)

79. time life - geminis (blackest rainbow)

80. tom james scott - red deer (bo'weavil)

81. lichens - omns (kranky)

82. sons of noel and adrian - cave ep (cdr)

83. laughing owls - bad knees (killer unicorns arts & crafts)

84. spectre folk - get in the box (arbitrary signs)

85. scout niblett - this fool can die now (too pure)

86. the north sea - on the endless golden skyway (black petal) *download*

87. milenasong - seven sisters (monika)

88. cold bleak heat - simitu (family vineyard)

89. dopo - crossing birds (foxglove) *download*

90. arbore - greta (self released)

91. el oso goloso - colmenar viejo (self released)

92. la jr - dos casas (acuarela)

93. the solo joint - 2 (foxglove)

94. anvil salute - all the animals of the forest (lofi shit)

95. belly boat - dear robert handy (not not fun)

96. the one ensemble - wayward the fourth (secret eye)

97. the north sea - exquisite idols (type)

98. justin shay - vocalizations (foxglove)

99. henry flynt & nova'billy - s/t (locust)

vapaa

vapaa - hum hum hum (last visible dog 2007)

"members of the Free Players appear once again under the banner 'Vapaa'. classic psychedelic improv much again to our Krautrock favorites, though with less structure. great feelings of nostalgia!

Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic "core" group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and The Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel)-- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the 'LVD sound', this is fairly definitive."

harían falta varios días para explicar todos los motivos por los que este disco me parece tan bonito (Keijo Virtanen...Uton...), así que me conformo con escuchar una y otra y otra vez las flautas de juguete tan queridas por Kuupuu (¿es el viento o los cánticos de los monjes fantasmas?) de 'sarastaa'' y las palmas entrañables y a destiempo de 'tuhannet vuodet'.

...es posible que hum hum hum se convierta en una parte importante de la vida de vapaa la :)

sarastaa (mp3)

el disco entero aquí (gracias adrianus!)