ypotryll / olli arni / jorge vicario / brian green

ypotryll ~ yellow smoke (jozik, 2012)

"meditative drones looping their way into your sub-conscious mind. soft poly cases with hand-stamped inserts. limited to 50 copies."

sintetizador, loops, voz, guitarra y flauta

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olli aarni ~ pohjoisen kesä (jozik, 2012)

"so distant, yet so close and warm. relaxing sounds of radio frequencies. ambient music for nights and days, mornings and evenings. soft poly cases with hand-stamped inserts. Limited to 50 copies."

 "soft, strikingly beautiful ambience from Olli Aarni. two side long tracks that mark a stunning balance between shimmering, cloud-like melody, and warbled, damaged, almost disintegrating production. eerily touching and sublimely listenable. I have yet to hear a piece from Aarni, either under his own name, or the Ous Mal moniker that doesn't immediately transfer me into a cloud like dream state.t he liner notes state "RM radio, wine glass, tapes, etc. Recorded with one hand." guide me little tape

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jorge vicario ~ broken music (jozik, 2012)

"tape dust, record skipping, cd glitches ~ all the “broken” sounds become something new and beautiful on this tape. soft poly cases with hand-stamped inserts. limited to 50 copies."

 "Jorge Vicario es un improvisador/intéprete orientado a la música experimental, realiza composiciones con guitarra preparada, grabaciones de campo, fx, dsp (digital sound process). también desarrolla un proyecto de ruido y performances utilizando especialmente metales amplificados y equipos de audio domésticos: cintas de cassette, tocadiscos. es miembro de keilahnaio, un grupo de sonidos acústicos concretos en lugares abandonados o destruidos. aquí y aquí podemos ver algo más de información sobre su trabajo de manera individual y de manera colectiva" eac

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 brian green ~ 112011 (jozik, 2011)

"Brian Green is a sound artist living in South Carolina, USA. for this half an hour long tape Brian recorded various instruments in an improv session and then processed them further on a computer. the result is a distant sounding ambient collage of acoustic instruments, tape hiss, bowed drones and keyboard sounds, all drowning in reverb. poly boxes with artwork by Sasha Kretova Limited to 60 copies."

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tibetan singing bowl meditation: session 46

emoción tras emoción. si hay un sello que se merece sold out en todas sus cintas es jozik. pero en todas todas.

lichen gumbo

lichen gumbo ~ zoom zoom ohm umpha (full of nothing, 2012)

"Lichen Gumbo is a rock’n'roll duo from unmapped rural Finland, where mystical muddy swamps and aurora borealis lit skylines mix with low signal sitcoms from overseas. no time for mumbo jumbo, just straight forward shredding here. these songs are about existential longing for god forsaken roadhouses and weird bohemian parties. Lichen Gumbo is the sound of blasting through the dusty roads of Savo with Pappa-Tunturi. recorded with dictaphones, tape decks, a reel to reel machine and an mp3 player bought from Lidl. from the damaged minds of Olli Aarni (Nuojuva, Ous Mal) and Ville Oinonen (Vo Motars, Tanec Hrac). Blue see-through tapes with full-colour J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Edition of 100." fon

recuerdo aquel post, tiempo ha, en el que adrián nos descubría el snow-folk de ous mal, y desde entonces y de forma recurrente no puedo evitar escuchar y seguir los pasos de olli aarni. lo que hace a lichen gumbo tan especial como nuojuva, aún siendo tan distintos, es su belleza inexplicable, ese clima indescriptible, el toque mágico, la sensación de atemporalidad.

zoom zoom ohm umpha suena a clásico sin serlo, y me recuerda a the fall y the lyres versión crepuscular. hay desvaríos psicodélicos, wow wows, guitarras anti-folk, canciones cortas y pequeñitas que se mezclan de forma caprichosa con el universo ducktails vs gorky's zygotic mynci y con sonidos más orgánicos y bucólicos: el trino de los pájaros, el kikirikí de gallos vespertinos y  el eco celestial de unas voces que viven y juegan en el mismo bosque encantado de matthew himes. pero sobre todo me recuerda a los discos de wild gunmen y the cherry blossoms (the hank tapes!), ése es el espíritu, naif, crujiente, nashville, casi infantil. 'orange myrtle' me hace sonreir de felicidad, tan bonita, lisérgica, radiante. 'goggles' es absolutamente keijo virtanen y unos rambling boys entusiasmados y acelerados. 'bertha', de temperatura cálida y acogedora, es danzarina, optimista y tropical, aunque mi corazón pertenece a 'swampaye', bonita con mayúsculas, única e irrepetible. pero ojo a las guitarras macguire~julian lynch de 'typical dreamer'. zoom zoom es como un cuento para niños, dibuja paisajes tropicales pero con ruidos de fondo, es cavernoso y al mismo tiempo ensoñador, es travieso e inmediato como el primer disco de ganglians. es jangle pop, es jangle folk, garage atmosférico, lo-fi, surf, new wave...pero ante todo es exaltación y felicidad

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nuojuva

nuojuva ~ otavaiset otsakkaha (hooker vision, 2012)

"Olli Aarni, the young Finnish mastermind behind the Ous Mal project has shed his former skin and settled comfortably into the Nuojuva moniker. his pastoral loops are further enhanced with vocals from Anya Kuts (Love Cult) and Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel)." hooker vision

cómo describir dos canciones como 'punapuola kankahalla' o 'ikina'. es hooker vision, el astronauta olli aarni (todo lo que hace es bonito, no importa el estilo), rachel evans y anya kuts en las voces. como acercarse a leyland kirby a través de jonna karanka, sala~arhimo o los delfines del futuro. envolvente, cinemático, ensoñador,...y muchísimoss adjetivos atmosféricos más

foto: laura kiernan

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nuojuva

nuojuva ~ valot kaukaa (preservation, 2012)

 "As Ous Mal, Olli Aarni’s debut album Nuojuva Halava took the early promise of his cd-r releases into a beautiful realisation of a unique sound that evoked both a curious nostalgia and a sense of future pathways, combining classical overtures, narcotic beats and warm atmospherics into blissful song.

Aarni’s beguiling vision holds sparer focus on Valot kaukaa for a more overtly ambient space filled with delicate instrumentation, including cello, piano, flute and violin, as well as a new interest in the possibilities of voice. Spacey and intimate with wintry and autumnal shades, its whispered melodies and open drift making for an heightened state still somehow grounded in downhome feeling.

The gliding vocal textures of Rachel Evans aka Motion Sickness of Time Travel, as well as one half of duo Quiet Evenings, is a recurring highlight, while Sophie Hutchings’ dazzling, rolling piano propels Laakso into a wonderful orbit.

Honing a special path explored on Nuojuva Halava, Valot kaukaa feels like one long, suspended, beautiful moment." preservation

aéreo, etéreo, elegante,...the caretaker

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ous mal

ous mal - viime talvi (under the spire, 2009)

"Even if it wasn't for the song titles you'd still be able to tell this record was Finnish. Like all that country's finest musical exports, be they Hannu or Paavoharju, Ous Mal's recordings carry a certain grainy lo-fi charm, sounding like some gnarled old 78 you might find in an enchanted attic. Vinyl crackle, weird old field recordings and weathered instrumental sequences all come together to make beautiful collages on tracks like 'Meidän Piha', which comes laced with faded string samples, glockenspiel melodies, wispy voices and the tolling of bells from a distant church. The glistening ambience of 'Tähdet' persists with the magic-realist sense of wonderment, sounding a bit like a haunted version of The Avalanches as it makes way for the equally ethereal strains of 'Tumma'. By the time you arrive at closing track 'Ukkonen' (whose curious sonic profile seems to shift from a spectral sea chantey into a demonic ice cream van) you'll be totally hooked on this record's creaky, tuneful and endearingly decrepit constitution. Highly enjoyable Scandinavian lo-fi melodicism from the ascendant Under The Spire imprint, limited to a mere 100 copies. boomkat"

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