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While the name Jorma Tapio may not be familiar to you, the name Terje
Isungset sure as heck should. He's the man responsible for the Igloo
record, a past record of the week, recorded entirely on instruments
made from ice. We've been selling that like CRAZY, when all of a
sudden we got an email from Jussi (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, etc.)
letting us know that his label Ektro was releasing a brand new record
by Isungset, teamed up with some guy names Tapio. We were of course
intrigued, but had no idea what to expect. And had we actually
expected something, we probably never would have guessed how weird and
wonderful this record would be. No ice instruments sad to say, but
armed with flutes, bells, voices, kantele, percussion, Jew's harp and
lots and lots of drums, these two whip up a super wild and wooly,
ultra dense blast of what we can only describe as tribal forest folk
free jazz. Or something like that. Free jazz is probably the closest
comparison, the first few tracks are dense psychedelic percussive
freak outs, lots of splattery spastic free jazz drumming all over the
place, deep bowed bass, steel string zings, and super creepy strangled
and howled vocalizations. Everything sounds very primal and tribal,
thick swaths of rhythmic throb underpinned by shimmering washes of
cymbal sizzle and warbly mumbled melodies. Isungset proves to be a
pretty bad ass drummer, whipping up some seriously wild squalls of
spastic skitter, and octopoidal crash and bang. The vocals grunt and
chant, sort of yodel, and hoot and holler, very festive and just a
little nuts sounding. When the drums recede a bit, the band sort of
wonders through some ancient forest, fluttering flutes, simple subtle
percussion, distant drones. A bit reminiscent of Avarus or
Anaksimandros for sure. The 20+ minute centerpiece, the track
"Selainin Tuli / Sacred Fire" lets the duo spread way out, and lay out
an expansive tribal soundscape, like the earlier 'free jazz' tracks
but stripped way down. Hints of No Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand
definitely surface now and then, the track eventually building to a
howling shrieking psych drone freakout before settling back to almost
complete silence. then a gentle lilting smudge of soft flutes and
abstract clatter. That smeared clatter sort of drifts into the next
two songs, disembodied scrapes and creaks, random bits of percussion,
thick washes of low end thrum, quite dark an lovely. The final track
is a flittering flutescape, a spare landscape of woodwinds and distant
shimmer, which is soon joined by a buzzing Jew's harp, and the harp
and flutes get all tangled up into a strangely propulsive groove, some
sort of skeletal prog laced with primal psych rock primitivism and
festive Renn Faire revelry, like stumbling into some clearing in the
woods and finding some strange open air market, with a very strange
duo performing before a crowd of rapt onlookers. Weird, but pretty
darn cool as well. Finnish music obsessives need this no matter what.
Lovers of that modern free folk new weird America thing might just
find that this pushes all their buttons, and REALLY REALLY open minded
jazz heads might also want to give this a try.
Highly recommended!
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/jormatapio/
http://www.isung.net
Tracks:
01. Seita
02. Nocturnal Wind From The Lake
03. Alone In Public
04. Salainen Tuli / Secret Fire
05. Huh-Huh
06. Turja
07. Mana
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