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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : J.O. Mallander
t i t l e : More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Anoema Recordings (nocd020)
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : February/2005
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 46,7 MB
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collected together here are Mallander's EPs Extended Play,
Decompositions and one previously unreleased track, 'In
Reality' (1968). With original sleeve art from the EPs and an
essay by Leif Elggren.
originally released as:
J.O. Mallander: Extended Play (or "Kekkonen")
Eteenpain NG-97
1968
a) "1962"
b) "1968"
J.O. Mallander
Decompositions
LREP 108
Love Records
1970
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Anoema Recordings is proud to present a complete collection of
sound works by the influential Finnish artist J.O.Mallander.
More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 collects two
sought-after vinyl EP's Extended Play and Decompositions (the
only Finnish entries in Broken Music catalog), and a previously
unreleased piece. J.O.Mallander began his artistic activities
in 1960's within the blooming Finnish Underground movement,
taking part, amongst other things, in the notorious
music-performance collective Sperm. He has since assumed a
multitude of roles within the world of art, operating as an
artist, critic, writer, gallerist, and curator. Through his
international connections he became a singular node of the
Fluxus network in Finland. Extended Play, released in 1968, was
his debut as an artist. It is simultaneously an intriguing
aural ready-made, a mantra-like tape piece, and a commentary
echoing the Finnish cultural climate of the day. It displays in
torturing detail the drama surrounding the presidential
elections in 1962 and 1968. In these pieces the main
protagonist is Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the president of Finland
for a quarter of century, and without question the most
legendary politician in the history of independent Finland. A
caring father of the nation to some, a democratically elected
dictator to others, his career is not without parallelisms in
modern times. These pieces have haunted the Finnish popular
consciousness for decades, and probably caused more complex
reactions than any other Finnish sound work. In 1968 Mallander
opted for life in the more internationally inclined Stockholm.
Among other activities he composed a mind-boggling
plunderphonic collage In Reality at the prestigious premises of
EMS for Text-Sound Festival held at Fylkingen. And two years
after Extended Play, in 1970, it was time to confuse the
Finnish audience again. Mallander issued his second (and so far
the last) music release Decompositions on the legendary Love
Records. Applying scratching, looping, and other manipulations
on records he created a hilariously energizing work and
pre-dated the methods and attitudes of contemporary popular
musics. More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 comes packed in
the original cover designs and features extensive liner notes
by Leif Elggren. The times they are not a-changin'.
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REVIEWS
Years and year ago, a beautiful exhibition of records was
organised in Berlin: Broken Music. It delt with records (vinyl)
made by visual artists. The only Finnish contribution to the
exhibition is by one J.O. Mallander. He is an artist involved
in the Finnish Undeground movement, member of the
music-performance collective Sperm, but also a writer,
gallerist and curator. This CD contains his LP, his 7" and an
unreleased piece. The 7", from 1968, is called Extended Play
and both sides are called 'Kekkonen', the famous president of
Finland, to some a hero and to other a democratically elected
dictator. Both sides of the record are the same: the word
kekkonen being repeated for about six minutes. The unreleased
piece is for the Text-Sound festival in Stockholm from 1969 and
is a plunderphonic collage of various versions of 'I Got You
Under My Skin' - an utter stereo track, until it slips into
loops of 'In Reality', that somehow stays close to it's
original until moving into the phased loops. In 1970 he made
his last recorded work, the LP 'Decompositions'. On the six
tracks of this LP he works with other records as his source
material. Probably not an original idea by today's standards,
but maybe more so shocking in 1970. Mainly jazz records
skipping and other audible faults in the vinyl are manipulated.
Again by current turntable standards not the greatest thing.
Even though I thought this was a very nice, and can see the
historical interest in this, I wonder who would actually go out
and get it. True collectors would want the original and that's
a pity. It's a nice art record anyway. (FdW)
Address: http://www.anoema.com
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01-1962 [06:34]
02-1968 [06:52]
03-In Reality [05:43]
04-Untitled [07:01]
05-Bound [02:25]
06-Variations On A Theme By Haydn [00:06]
07-A fifth [05:37]
08-Blues-a-version [03:09]
09-Degnahc ev'uoy [01:42]
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39:09 min
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