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Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on Today at 10:32:57 AMMOLJEBKA PVLSE "An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost" cd taas yllätti. Projekti kävi Suomessa keikalla jo varmaan parikyt vuotta sitten ja vaikka jokunen levy kertynyt, ikinä ei ole ollut sellainen erityisen haussa oleva artisti. Nyt täytyy hieman mietiskellä onko tullut missattua jotain olennaista.

Dvnkl on hyvä! IMO paras mitä näiltä olen kuullut. Soundtrack-musan ongelma voi olla, että sen pakostakin yhdistää elokuvaan eikä sitä osaa ajatella omana teoksenaan. Tässä tapauksessa mitään elokuvaa ei ole, mutta syntyy miellyttävä Blair Witch Project -fiilis ja assosioin levyn sen kaltaiseen kuvastoon mielessäni. Äänimaailma kun koostuu oksien räsähtelystä, luonnon äänistä, sirisevästä dronesta ja alkupuolella selkäpiitä karmivasta naisen hönkäilystä.
#2
Viime päivinä soinut noisen ohella myös jonkin sortin ambient / drone hommat aika paljon. Kristoffer Oustad saattaa osalle Suomessa olla tuttu lähinnä Stromstad collaboraatiosta, jossa Strom.ec ja Oustad kimpassa. Kova levy. 10 vuotta omasta edellisestä levystään, tämä uutukainen soinut jo kolme kertaa ja fiilikset on sellaiset että... tämähän on hyvä! Contrastaten jäsen vetää hitusen puhuttua pätkää levyn lopussa, mutta muuten kuulostaa että voisi olla jonkun leffan soundtrack.
Se on itselleni usein se dilemma. Tavallaan kun on hyvää ja korvanmyötäistä kamaa, mutta samalla on fiilis että ei tässä kuuntele levyä tai artistia, vaan jotain filmin taustamusaa. En edes tiedä miksi tästä fiksaatiosta ei pääse eroon, sillä toisin kuin monet intohimoiset soundtrack kerääjät, itse taas pidän oikeaa musa albumia ihan eri tasoisena asiana kuin soundtrackiä. Ei sille mitään järkevää selitystä tai kovin pitäviä perusteluja ole. Pelkkä pers' tuntuma, jota ei tähän mennessä ole voinut karistaa.
Siitä kuitenkin seuraa että Oustadin levy on erinomainen juuri siinä kategoriassa, etten miellä tätä sinne noisen, death industrialin, ambientin jne UG musan standardeille, vaan tälläisen nykyajan syntikoiden mahtipontisten mattojen ja siistin tuotannon levytykseksi. Siinä kategoriassa ja tällä kuvituksella, jossa eeppistä pohjoista luontoa jne, kova levy.

MOLJEBKA PVLSE "An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost" cd taas yllätti. Projekti kävi Suomessa keikalla jo varmaan parikyt vuotta sitten ja vaikka jokunen levy kertynyt, ikinä ei ole ollut sellainen erityisen haussa oleva artisti. Nyt täytyy hieman mietiskellä onko tullut missattua jotain olennaista. Uusi albumi on 4 hengen kokoonpanon nykymusiikki/drone teos, jossa elektroniikasta vastuussa olevan Mathiaksen lisäksi on basisti ja sitten harpun ja pianon soittajat. Hitaasti vellova ja harkitun riisutun oloisesti etenevä levytys kuulostaa todellakin sellaiselta "oikealta taidemusalta", ilmaisun positiivisessa merkityksessä. Ts. soittajilla on ajantajua ja tyylitajua ja ei vaan roiskita jotenkin... vaikka sinänsä pohjavire onkin staattinen ja sisältää vielä sen "UG musa" viban jolloin ei tarvitse pidellä naamaa myötähäpeästä kun musakoulu nörtit heiluu kastanjetit ja triangelit kädessä vaikka koko maailma parempia soundeja täynnä.

Taidemusasta puheen ollen:
https://sonoluminuslabel.bandcamp.com/album/ubique
Hieman vituttanut kun Anna Thorvaldsdottirin uutta levyä ei tunnu saavan oikein mistään. USA:n lafka ei vastaa jos siltä kyselee tukku mahdollisuuksia tai kuka olisi nykyään euroopan tukkumyyjä. Ennen osaa levyistä sai Sonyn kautta, ei ehkä ollut riittävää kysyntää. Suomessa ei Fuga kaupittele. Euroopassa jostain nihkeästä saksan amazonista voisi tilata. Ehkä albumin tuoreus tarkoittaa että sitä on vielä jossain vaiheessa fyysisesti saatavilla, mutta 45 minsan albumi on ihan kannattava tsekata bandcampistä tai muista striimeistä. Vaihtelevampi kokonaisuus, jossa monia lyhyitä pätkiä peräjälkeen. Huilut, jouset, elektroniikka, ihmisääni. Monesti kuulostaa kuin pärskittäisiin didgeridoon kautta mutta sitä ei kreditseissä mainita. Kontrasti on hyvä kun lähes hahmottomasta kokeellisesta äänestä siirrytään melko nostalgisen sentimentaaliseen jousi sävellykseen ja toisinpäin. Toivottavasti levyn saa ihan fyysisenä hyllyyn!
Anna Thorvaldsdottir on tällä hetkellä residenssissä suomessa. Syksyllä meni jo ohi Aerial esitys. Tiedossa oli, mutta kaikkea muuta touhua niin paljon. Tulossa vielä useampi muu. En ole vielä muuta ehtinyt kuin katsella että osa päivistä näyttää osuvan omien keikkojen kanssa päälekkäin joten se siitä..
https://www.annathorvalds.com/performances
https://helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi/fi/residenssisaveltaja
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he had very varied feeling about it. As many times as he would say no to suggestion, he would actually come forth and suggest doing something. Such as Indecent Liberties. I got email when he says he is sending masters and trusts my judgement on how to treat his legacy. Tyler from Ajna can verify Keith's wishes as he was the Keiths named contact person on these matters.
I have permission to keep in print all Mania tapes I did (which I should.. they are currently OOP) and I personally feel Keith was open to discuss represses of recordings that were made for bigger audience. Several of those were reissued already when he was alive. I don't think he wanted to reissue everything. Not the private material, nor making anthology box-sets out of things that was meant to be scarcely available in first place. Therefore, my conclusion is that the small edition private stuff is not meant for re-issues, but the already fairly large run albums that were meant for larger audiences is ok. There has been already many discussions and things are under work with the original labels who were putting out the stuff. I would appreciate if none of the newbie fanboys feel they are somehow entitled to put out whatever, but leave it to people who Keith was personally dealing with when he was active. When they come out, I am sure any reissues will be available fairly easily in USA and Europe.
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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Best of 2025
Last post by groesk - Today at 07:33:07 AM
i've been trying to find what I can outside of the forum. here's the little I got.

teeth dreams - endlings. (harsh noise with drone influences)
Sukeban - Antagony (chaotic harsh noise, loses steam by the end)

yeah those are the two i found, i need to find labels or something to follow up on things.
#5
From what I understood at the time, he didn't want any Taint reissued. Toward the end maybe he changed his mind, I don't know because I never talked to him about anything like that.
Mikko, did he give you any permissions for reissue? I feel like you might be the only one he gave them to.
#6
I think one thing that rings true about Keith's work in Mania in particular, is how profound and relatable those uneasy feelings are, that are being meticulously being projected and expressed through the noise itself, through a foreboding sense of anxiety, desperation and isolation that continue to escalate. This time a year I've got terrible anxiety from season change to winter. I find myself drinking a lot earlier, a lot more often and going to bed almost always with nightmares and then waking up everyday to this depressed and anxious ridden state that makes you feel very guilty, self ridiculing, isolated and alone in those feelings and takes hours in the morning to return to a semi normal state of mind. I think Mania is the banner to those types of feelings and is precisely why it's so magnified to certain individuals, cause it feels so authentic to those types of experienced emotions. I never knew Keith, as I was late to the forum before he passed, but he's no doubt somebody I'd of easily been able to relate to on various topics. I'm glad he was able to communicate those feelings of anxiety so well with Mania to the point that it demands the listeners immediate attention.
#7
I'm still hoping for a Vice CD reissue, that would be essential! I hope to see that sometime in the near future and also still holding out in hopes for a big CD compilation that consists of a series of compilation track appearances and rare tracks. In my opinion, some of his best and most harrowing stuff in both Taint and Mania have been executed very well through various compilation appearances over the years.
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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: BLACK METAL
Last post by Cranial Blast - Today at 04:31:13 AM
Another really great black metal demo to check out is the most recent Traum demo tape entitled Diminishment In Perpetuum, released by US black metal label Torture Palace Productions. Filled to brim with cold sardonic atmosphere and lofi production! Definitely something to check out, especially by those who have enjoyed much of the Blood Crescent catalog.
#9
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on Today at 03:37:56 AM
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on November 16, 2025, 06:33:33 PMRautakymi – Ei Tästä Maailmasta (Freak Animal)
This continues the very raw straight to 4-track noise approach. It has a warmth and slight murkiness from recording straigh to tape. It's not easy to tell what each source is which adds to the enigmatic nature of the sounds for me.

I hear a lot of metal scrapping tape loops manipulated in a variety of manners. There are also a lot of filter sweeps and/or phaser effects of some sort. Backward tape loop sounds and very murky crumbling textures.

I wouldn't say it's straight harsh noise, it's definitely a little experimental while playing in the harsh noise sandbox.

I was curious about the titles so I asked Google to translate. The album title "Ei Tästä Maailmasta" in English roughly translates to "Out of this world" which is a very fitting title. The sounds do actually feel somewhat alien...

Just wanted to note that I keep returning to this release. It's funny because I had a hard time making heads or tales of it the first couple of spins and wasn't even sure I liked it. It's really unique and doesn't sound like anyone else to my ears. It's very primitive and very alien at the same time somehow.

I often find the releases that confuse me reveal themselves with further listens, and this one has really opened up for me.

That's a really well written way of putting it, as I feel the same way about this album. It did not strike me immediately upon first listen. I didn't dislike it or like it, but I felt left feeling that perhaps I'll check this one out again real soon to see how I feel about it on a second listen. It's like how you described, it didn't grab my attention immediately or maybe how I thought it might, but maybe needs another listen and maybe a more focused deeper concentrated listen. Rautakymi's tracks on Freak Animal International vol. 5 didn't grab me immediately either, but after hearing them a couple times after first hearing, it became immediate to me after some more listens that this stuff is really good! It had then anticipated me big time for this album, perhaps Rautakymi is one of those artists that needs closer ear to attention, perhaps needs a closer examination to fully appreciate. I think at least in my experience that perhaps this is the case with Rautakymi.
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Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on November 16, 2025, 06:33:33 PMRautakymi – Ei Tästä Maailmasta (Freak Animal)
This continues the very raw straight to 4-track noise approach. It has a warmth and slight murkiness from recording straigh to tape. It's not easy to tell what each source is which adds to the enigmatic nature of the sounds for me.

I hear a lot of metal scrapping tape loops manipulated in a variety of manners. There are also a lot of filter sweeps and/or phaser effects of some sort. Backward tape loop sounds and very murky crumbling textures.

I wouldn't say it's straight harsh noise, it's definitely a little experimental while playing in the harsh noise sandbox.

I was curious about the titles so I asked Google to translate. The album title "Ei Tästä Maailmasta" in English roughly translates to "Out of this world" which is a very fitting title. The sounds do actually feel somewhat alien...

Just wanted to note that I keep returning to this release. It's funny because I had a hard time making heads or tales of it the first couple of spins and wasn't even sure I liked it. It's really unique and doesn't sound like anyone else to my ears. It's very primitive and very alien at the same time somehow.

I often find the releases that confuse me reveal themselves with further listens, and this one has really opened up for me.