a r t i s t : Paavoharju
t i t l e : Uskallan
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Type Records
c a t : T7PE002
s o u r c e : Vinyl
g e n r e : Lo-Fi
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 9,6 MB
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The second in Type's ongoing series of limited edition 7's
comes from the remote frozen countryside of Finland. The band
in question is Paavoharju, a collective formed around two
brothers - Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of
associates. After unleashing their incredible debut album
"YhΣ hΣmΣrΣΣ" on the wonderful Fonal label last year, the
world's alternative press suddenly had another bizarre group
to write about, and once they pulled out the born-again
Christian card, it was just icing on the already decorated
cake.
The band's music is a quite unexplainably twisted concoction
of pop, electronics, folk, Bollywood soundtracks and classic
easy listening. It's not a list of genres you would usually
expect see married, but Paavoharju manage to do it without the
need of a guidance councillor, just. On this exclusive 7öthey
contribute two tracks, the A Side is "Uskallan" and veers
towards their blistering pop side. This is the sort of track
the 7" format breathes for - unashamedly cheesy but containing
enough crunchy lo-fi abstraction to keep the most po-faced
nu-folk junkie happy, we would like to think that "Uskallan"
is Finland's alternative entry to the Eurovision song contest.
Who knows, it might happen one day! The flip side however goes
for a different feeling altogether, with a slow and distorted
piano line taking us blissfully into a magical world of
creaking wooden cabins and hidden snow-caves. Paavoharju usher
us into their crumbling frosty land like a gang of mysterious
Finnish Pied Pipers, and who are we to resist their charms?
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01-Uskallan [03:13]
02-Yllaeaen On Aamu, Korennot Ja Kesae [03:33]
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06:46 min