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Remastered version of This Empty Flow's debut album "Magenta Skycode"
(1996) with Bonus CD, enjoy!
This Empty Flow was formed in 1994 by Jori Sj÷roos (voice, guitar,
programming) and Niko SirkiΣ (keyboards, lyrics) in Turku, Finland.
They shared history in the seminal funeral-doom metal band Thergothon.
Later in the year they were joined by Aku-Tuomas Mattila (bass), the
leader of then rising local goth-electro band Sad Parade. The first
This Empty Flow demos were recorded without a computer, i.e. Jori
played drums live with the keyboard directly to the tape running in a
Fostex 4-tracker.
During 1995 This Empty Flow made the first proper demo versions of
several songs (still with the Fostex but drums programmed with a
computer). Four of them were compiled on a tape and sent to Italian
Avantgarde Music (eventually, the only label who received the demo).
In April This Empty Flow and Avantgarde Music signed a record deal.
Between September and November This Empty Flow spent 12 days in studio
U96 in Pori, Finland and recorded the debut album Magenta Skycode.
Magenta Skycode was recorded and mixed by Jukka SillanpΣΣ (known from
Lavra, F, As Divine Grace etc.) who also co-produced the album with
the group. The album was recorded from Nowafter to Sweet Bloom of
Night Time Flowers in the order which was already decided to be the
final running order. Demo version of the album was recorded in summer
and the demo included a song called Angels' Playground which was
changed to Snowblind about a week before the group went to to studio.
Magenta Skycode, the band's debut album was released in March 1996 on
Avantgarde Music. During the autumn This Empty Flow started to record
the follow-up for Magenta Skycode. Four songs were finished but
Avantgarde showed lack of interest so the sessions were never
finished. In November This Empty Flow made their gig debut in Lahti,
Finland. The line-up was strenghtened by guitarist Jukka SillanpΣΣ,
the producer of Magenta Skycode. The set list was made up of three
songs from the autumn sessions (Blear, Drops, Dive Nothing) and two
songs from Magenta Skycode (Useless, Snowblind). Towards the end of
the year Niko grew increasingly dissatisfied with the direction the
band's music and inner chemistry was going, and finally in December he
left the band to concentrate on his own music in other projects.
In January 1997 This Empty Flow played their second concert in
Helsinki, Finland with Jukka on guitar and Hanna Kalske (the singer of
As Divine Grace) on keyboards. The set list was similar to the
previous one but the gig was opened by an untitled chaotic song
including only voices from tape and JoriÆs singing. During the summer
the band made some demo recordings in studio which showed that band
was going ever further away from the original idea of This Empty Flow.
Jori and Aku-Tuomas decided that there's no point in going on under
the name of This Empty Flow. So the band dissolved, but a number of
posthumous releases surfaced.
In March 1999, an out-take album called Three Empty Boys was released
by Plastic Passion ù a label owned by Aku-Tuomas. It included the four
songs finished for the second album and seven rehearsal demos recorded
in 1995-1997.
In March 2000 Plastic PassionÆs sublabel Muovi 111 released another
out-take album, or rather a mini-album (34 min), called Useless and
Empty Songs (cd-r, limited edition of 111 copies). It contained three
rehearsal demos, Of Blossom And Decay (a track previously released on
a compilation album) and a trip hop remix of Useless made by Jukka
SillanpΣΣ.
In February 2001 Italian Eibon Records released an album called
Nowafter - a compilation of rare and unreleased material. It included
tracks from Three Empty Boys and Useless And Empty Songs as well as
six songs recorded during the summer of 1997 in Studio Studio Sputnik,
Turku i.e. the final studio recordings of This Empty Flow.
In March 2006 Eibon Records released The Album, a double-CD containing
a remastered version of Magenta Skycode and 11 previously unreleased
demo recordings recorded in 1994 û 1996.
After This Empty Flow Jori has released solo material as Fu-Tourist,
Funtourist and Scsio as well as made remixes for the national
favorites The Crash, world-wide million sellers Bomfunk MCÆs and many
other artists from Finland and Sweden. He has also produced and
written music for the two albums of Finnish chart topper duo PMMP.
Niko is a very active underground artist and he has released dozens of
records under many pseudonyms (Niko Skorpio, Haeretici 7o74, Kaaos in
Eccentris, Rajapinta, Reptiljan, A..H, Cold Once Turning Dust). He
also runs a record label Some Place Else and works as a graphic
designer (for example record covers for Plastic Passion and Fu
-Tourist). Aku-Tuomas has released some (more or less) solo material
as Sad Parade and runs Plastic Passion label which is one of the most
active small independent labels in Finland. One of the latest releases
in the Plastic Passion catalogue is an EP from Magenta Skycode, a band
led by Jori.
http://nikoskorpio.net/musick/?id=thisemptyflow
http://www.myspace.com/thisemptyflow
Scans: Front/Back
Tracks:
CD #1 - Magenta Skycode (1996)
01. Nowafter (6:41)
02. Useless (8:51)
03. Stream (6:35)
04. Towards Distant (8:22)
05. Snow Blind (5:01)
06. Distress (4:42)
07. (But I Am) Still (6:25)
08. Sweet Bloom Of Night Time Flowers (4:53)
CD #2 - Magenta Lost (Bonus CD)
01. Serpents (5:22)
02. Highest Of The Angels (5:17)
03. The 14th (5:09)
04. (But I Am) Still (Disco Demo Version) (5:38)
05. Untitled (5:51)
06. Distress (Version 0.2) (3:54)
07. See Nothing (5:04)
08. Nevermore (5:02)
09. Untitled (5:39)
10. Distress (Version 0.1) (8:50)
11. The Circle Did Close Indeed (6:08)
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