UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Awesome! Pics?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow, I need to get to Dr C.

― Ed, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Various Artists - Psychedelic Phinland - Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974

wo of our favorite words! (Though we normally spell Phinland, Finland.) The current Finnish psych
phenomenon -- Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Kiila, etc. etc. is of course a major AQ obsession. As is vintage psych from, well, heck just about anywhere, but certainly Scandinavia. So this double-disc compilation, subtitled "Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974" has got us all excited. There's 29 tracks from almost as many artists, a fantastic trip into the early daze of the Finnish freak-scene. Perhaps another good subtitle would have been: "When Drugs Came To Finland". There's even a few songs about marijuana to set the mood, starting off disc one. But Psychedelic Phinland is just as political, and parodic, and perverse as it is potheaded. There's plenty of Flower Power pop and/or fuzzed-out blues rock, but you'll also find jazz-damaged prog and mystic folk, revolutionary theatre and electronic insanity. There's so much here, we can't mention it all, but look out for heavy psych jammers Baby Grandmothers, "rocking lavatory anarchists" Suomen Talvisota 1939-40, and progrock pioneers Wigwam... then there's there's Eastern-inflected psych-folk from Pekka Streng and the Yippie ranting of Markku Uto...
And then on disc two things get REALLY weird. Yeah this one's even further out, crossing over a bit into "Arktinen Hysteria" territory (you maybe remember, that great collection of early Finnish avant-weirdness from a while back, also released by Love Records). It starts off innocently enough with our new favorite band(name), Those Lovely Hula Hands. Really, that's their name, and they included several 13 and 14 year old sisters playing violins and recorders, singing gently amidst tape-recorded bird-twitter... a song about Tarzan! Then we hear from Pekka Airaksinen and also his band The Sperm, doing extended feedback and tape music experiments. We remember The Sperm from that Arktinen comp and had wanted to hear more. Later on, there's some wonderfully primitive, ceremonial hippy jamming, particularly from a band called Sikiot, who have a krautrockish vibe like Siloah or Amon Duul. And there's plenty more, some other names of note on these cds include J.O. Mallander, Charlies, Topmost, Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int, Apollo, Blues Section, Hector & Oscar, and Kruunuhaan Dynamo...
All of this is pretty much totally obscure, in fact a lot of it consists of previously unissued archival recordings from the vaults of Finland's Love label and other sources... A true labor of Love. Comes with a twenty page, full color cd booklet with English-language notes on each track and tons of cool old photos and graphics.

Who wants cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Damned stoners.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Send me cookies.

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

OMG ARCADE FIRE *melt* they did no cars go second (it seemed like they were doing their setlist backwards for a little while) so i ended up at the front with the jumpingpeople for pretty much the whole set. WUV

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Who else wants cookies? I'll do em now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Were you jumping about Emsk?

cookies are on their way, ed. Do you think Kate The Hippy will want them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yay cookies. And later I'm off to a fine meal but right now I'm listening to drones recorded in Texas.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

yes i was jumping! like a 14yo boy! i think the last time a band * made* me do that it was pixies at the same venue. my clothes are all blech.

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

I still jump about or dance(it's less tiring).
I don't have emsks email to send cookies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh i still dance about a lot, all the time, and jump about fairly often - but if it's jumping about there's usually a bit more impetus from me - "i want to jump about!" this time i knew i was gonna end up doing it but thought i'd watch half the gig from halfway back then wriggle down the front for the rest. but when no cars go started i couldn't stay still, and then i couldn't leave.

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Do you want cookies, emsk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

Then Emsk took the stage and rocked out. Surely.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Ed's mandolin is a MANDOLIN OF DOOM!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's a sure sign that when you see the word cookies and think of the internet that you have spent too long online.

Yahoo was searching for America's best cookie earlier and all I could think of was how I wouldn't be able to log in to oink.me.uk if that cookie ever got deleted.

I'm a complete saddo though. Continue your business.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Cookie is a code word (for cookies honest)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Code schmode

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

hello peeps, gosh, isn't 'children of men' a good film?

currently having my mind blown with countless doom metal recommendations via MSN and the goodfolk who have posted immediately before I.

and to think i still regard SFA's 'Rings Around The World' as one of the pinnacles of post-2000 music...

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Now e need to get louis started on dronerock

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

dirty drone rock boys uniteeee

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

yay @ isis, neurosis, red sparowes

best dronerock = last four minutes of Soft Machine's 'Moon In June'

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

not forgetting that pelican EP I have,

or Jesu

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hari is Devons finest dirty dronerock boy I heard

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure if this is ok to post in teh watercooler threads but this is the most dronerock i've ever looked.

Especially while playing pop music.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9066/meeditdq5.jpg

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kate likes photos of dirty dronerock boys. Don't you fear! she also likes posts of Benjamin Curtis and Howard from The Mighty Boosh.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

And Alex James.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Kate's weekly crumpet quota has just been filled in one fell swoop, I suspect.

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Are you wibbling out there, Hari?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

What's wibbling?

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kate will need to answer that one.
I just hope Kate scrolls up, todays posts might have vanished by the time she sees it on monday!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

What pedals do you wibble with?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't do much 'widdling' in that band.

My new ones I'm gonna use my voice and guitar through a DD6 and several different tremelo pedals offset to make insane stuff happen.

Possibly a bass distortion pedal on the guitar too.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

in my new bands i mean.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

If you do play the ILX gig you and the Shimura Curves need to play together and take a ride to wibble heaven.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

With Ed on the MANDOLIN OF DOOM

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

you wait till I release a track for the ILX, it'll be dirtier and dronier (ok, maybe not, but definitely proggier) than all you guys combined :-P

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

But Shimura Curves can wibble while the others fall down...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

1st part of a 2 cookie set has been sent..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Cookie part 2 now done and i can go to bed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

disk 1 doesn't really kick in until about track 6. Then it gets great.
Im off to bed now though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

kate, why oh why did you have to alert me to the existence of things like this?

http://www.8stringbass.com/Images/BCRich8/images/BCRich8b_jpg.jpg

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ed> Did you get those cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I got cookies, but not digested yet. 2nd one being very slow.

WANT:
http://www.12stringbass.com/Tennesseeda_1_sbl.JPG

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I am accessing them cookies now.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

For those who wanted to see my instruments, the pickup one is on the left.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/425247508_a96c46d816.jpg?v=0
alt image link

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Bass or Sitar?

http://www.12stringbass.com/vox2.gif

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants cookies?
Sabu Orimo
Susabu
Subjective Spirit Sound SSS-105
CD-R
£8.99

Amazing new limited edition solo album by this young Japanese shakuhachi avantist who describes himself as playing "Japanese old stone age style" and "noise shakuhachi". Orimo plays with natural bamboo flutes using no F/X whatsoever but he tears through the instrument with distorting force, blowing teeth through the valves with the kind of power-thinking more commonly associated with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson or Masayoshi Urabe. Susabu consists of nine pieces recorded in March of 2006. Some tracks here work locomotive growls and roars into truly ferocious forms, while other juggle meditative tonal puffs, long, elegiac single notes and pregnant iceberg silences ala Kaoru Abe. The point where Orimo's straining against the instrument finally breaks into screaming vocals and barked ecstatic wows is truly spine-tingling. Pretty much explodes the idea of what you would expect a 'solo shakuhachi' record to sound like. A major discovery and highly recommended.

I don't have the other album yet sadly.

Sabu Orimo
Ichi-On
Subjective Spirit Sound SSS-106
CD-R
£8.99

Amazing new limited edition solo album by this young Japanese shakuhachi avantist who describes himself as playing "Japanese old stone age style" and "noise shakuhachi", a companion album to Susabu, also released by SSS. Orimo plays with natural bamboo flutes using no F/X whatsoever but he tears through the instrument with distorting force, blowing teeth through the valves with the kind of power-thinking more commonly associated with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson or Masayoshi Urabe. Ichi-On feels more intimate than the preceding Susabu, with Orimo's long, deep flute tones working delicate gravities of growl and drone while environmental aspects creep in around the edges, most affectingly during "Yure" where the dance of rain provides a highly atmospheric counterpoint to Orimo's elemental performance style, flashing from rage to silence in the tiniest of eternities. A beautiful performance with little parallel on the instrument. Highly recommended.

Who is going to be brave?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe we could calm down a little with the cookies and get back to the chatter? I don't want to get PTW in trouble.

How was everyone's weekend?

I had a nice, quiet weekend - spent most of it writing my Plan B article - it was actually quite difficult to write. It's hard having to confront your own prejudices head on. But I namedropped some ILX0rs, ha ha.

Went out to see Rocktor C on Saturday night and got rather drunk by mistake. But my god,I don't know if it's spring or what, but that pub was like Night of the Silver Foxes. Hottt older dudes everywhere - Ed said it gave him hope that people can stay cool (as in interesting, individual) as they get older. The Fractured were great fun. And I was bopping like a FULE to the Fallen Leaves, they were a lovely beat/early garage pop combo. Inspired me to get out my bass on Sunday afternoon (oh my poor neighbours!) and play every garage riff ever. (OK, there are only 4 of them,but I improvised a bit.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, 8 and 12 string basses. I actually kinda want one. The 8 string bass coz of Curtis the Elder, I've no idea what a 12 string bass would sound like, I'm kinda scared. But then again, I have been listening to Steve Hillage all weekend so bring on the PROG. (I am carolanning on the Aftaflid.)

I like the look of the mandolin brothers by my LEAD amp!

Welcome to the 'Cooler, Hari!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

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