Luomo

I have Orchestra of Bubbles but did he sing on that? Every time I've listened to it I love it but then i forget to listen to it again for ages.

Not that I'd want to stop you from listening to Propaganda, but that was my initial reaction as well.

Great album.

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A few tracks from Convivial are on his MySpace page.

grrrrr pls to hear whole album

he sang on 'leave me alone' which to be fair i always skip too.

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"Sleep Tonight": The slightly baleful house pulse sounds almost harsh coming after the rococo "Slow Dying Places", but in fact it's very much of a piece with that track and "Nothing Goes Away" - meticulously detailed and very very pretty. The pinging sounds put me in mind of early Akufen a bit. Some cut-up diva vocals here but they're somewhere between the first album and what you might expect on a very good dub of a house track (actually this also reminds me of my beloved Mei Lwun Uno Records mix). The stronger house pulse makes me think this'd be irresistible on the floor. When the beat kicks in after the breakdown it's like "let's go!". Then there are these weird space invader synth wobbles fizzing and defraying everywhere. As much as all of this stuff sounds totally natural, I really like how Delay has discovered a certain level of unpredictability in his sound design, so much of the fun here is wondering "what is the next sound gonna be?" I also like how the production seems to get more like that as the record progresses, like it's a tightly wound coil and you're slowly approaching the centre.

"Gets Along Fine": This strts off more predictable in that if I'd been asked to dream up Luomo making the perfect piece of affirmative house-pop I would have imagined this down to every precise detail. "We all get along!" But then... Watch out for the propulsive snare action! It's like the outro on Ada's "Each and Every One (Blindhouse)" but better, surrounded by these slithering bleeps that are simultaneously melancholy and joyful. Holy shit this just keeps getting better, forgive the immediate-reaction hyperbole but I cannot say for certain that this is not the best piece of music I have ever heard in my life. And then a brief respite. And then the snare section again. It will blow your minds I promise.

What label is this new one going to be on? The downloads from his huumerecordings site have been great for all the recent releases, and reasonably-priced, I kind of hope he still self-releases this album too.

"Lonely Music Co.": After all that, a relatively relaxed outro, all subdued chords and a wistful digi-dub beat and lovely female vox. And I'm thinking "take a rest man, you've earnt it", when all unexpectedly at the end it threatens to turn into woozy 2-step.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

wow

What label is this new one going to be on? The downloads from his huumerecordings site have been great for all the recent releases, and reasonably-priced, I kind of hope he still self-releases this album too.

Huume, yeah.

ha Andy, I thought I was imagining the Propaganda connection.

tim did you get your (i am assuming) promo copy through an australian pr house?

also there are too many albums of the year now. last year could have done with some of these

wow. have gone from not planning to bother with to anticipating more than anything in a long time. great stuff, tim.

like what, lex? i've kinda given up on new stuff this year, really.

Brought this with me into work today for an initial listen. Should be good...

"tim did you get your (i am assuming) promo copy through an australian pr house?"

Nope, pitchfork.

like what, lex? i've kinda given up on new stuff this year, really.

erykah badu, mariah carey, lindstrom, lil' wayne, young jeezy, the-dream, wiley, the bug and anja schneider would all be comfortably in my 07 top 2. danity kane, akiko kiyama, tinchy stryder, ear dis and shed not far behind. and jazmine sullivan was astonishing on one listen. and still awaiting ciara, t.i., crazy cousinz, beyoncé and obv luomo! plus great mixes from ellen allien, plastician, appleblim, ame...

It's been a good year.

and i forgot ne-yo

Matthew Dear's Body Language 7 mix is very good also.

I still haven't heard the Lindstrom. ;_;

i shld give that the bug album a listen

more info:

Luomo - Convival
http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?code=HUUME016CD

A new Luomo! His best ever! Hyper pop house of highest grade. Featuring Apparat *******
Huume (HUUME016CD)
This item will be released on October 20th, 2008

OUR FAVOURITE LUMBERJACK & DUB NOIR PILOT RETURNZ WITH HIS LUOMO PROJECT ***** “Convivial" is the 4th installment in project LUOMO from a Finnish producer known as VLADISLAV DELAY & UUSITALO on his own label HUUME. Convivial features vocal appearances from CASSY, SASCHA RING AKA APPARAT, JAKE SHEARS, SUE CIE, ROBERT OWENS, CHUBBS and long time partner JOHANNA IIVANAINEN.

SASU RIPATTI is the producer and head writer behind the project LUOMO, his musical outfit that has redrawn the very boundaries of what "house music" can achieve. Always a shy man, RIPATTI returns into view to introduce to the world "Convivial"; his latest, and fourth, album as LUOMO. For his relief though, this time he doesn't have to arrive alone. In addition to a long-time collaborator JOHANNA IIVANAINEN (From Helsinki, Finland), this time he lands with a semi-underground star cast; CASSY (Panorama Bar), SASCHA RING (APPARAT), JAKE SHEARS (SCISSOR SISTERS), ROBERT OWENS, SUE-C and one anonymous singer who hides behind a name CHUBBS.

The album in question is not so much of an assembly as a series of commentaries, interspersed with contemporaneous studio stylings and entries from travel diaries he kept while working on the album. It is for the first time that there's a real collaboration between him and the singers; where he didn't write all the lyrics himself but left sometimes plenty of room for the collaborators to bring in the lyrics and musical ideas. The title refers to rather convivial vibe and social atmosphere that surrounded the making-of the album; something new in LUOMO'S production history. The main hub to record and create the album was again Berlin as is in so many cases today, but since then the artist has decided to relocate to his home country, Finland, where he finished the album and is currently living.

While beginning the production for "Convivial" RIPATTI went back to recall thinking how fascinating and strange it was when he first begun making his version of LUOMO'S dance music, and how difficult it has sometimes been since then while trying to search for more and newer ways to lay down the seemingly simple formula of so-called house music. With "Convivial" he wanted let go off the structures and rules, as well as the pressures and aims as to what one should create and instead just took a moment to enjoy making the kind of music he felt strongly about. Often together with other people. The network of artists and singers he worked with for the album bring about strong song characteristics and wide range of electronic music to experience.

CASSY is participating on a dancefloor-friendly song "Have You Ever", while SASCHA RING makes a touching appearance singing a semi-ballad "Love You All". JAKE SHEARS does add a piece of glamour in "If I Can't" while a long-time friend from California, SUE-C does great lead vocals in "Nothing Goes Away", a song probably everyone can relate to. Classic house vocalist ROBERT OWENS gets treated and processed in soulful "Robert's Reason", while JOHANNA IIVANAINEN both brings back and takes further than before what vocals can do in experimental pop music.

As always in his productions the vocals rarely speak out on narrow or specific issues, preferring sweeping hyperbolic statements all about seasonless emotions and about transition and exchange, because that is what people have in their lives, and it is his wish to reflect on that in his music. Aside from great production, the charm of listening to LUOMO’S music lies in his ability to put people at ease even when he doesn’t share a common language or theme with them, with vocals becoming like instruments among synthesizers, effects and other machines. For some people he might be irreverent for his lack of deep knowledge of house or club music and its history or how he creates his own style effortlessly mixing things up, as though he is willing to embody for the new world all the traits they so eagerly use to stereotype the old world: sensuality, knowingness, an alluring combination of earthiness and high culture. But avoiding the genre-licking is almost meaningless as these days the dynamics have changed anyway and the fusion is about. More than anything, his kafkaesque productions come with wonderful petulance about it bringing in more depth and certainly growing the meaning of the dance music in bigger picture.

His medium as LUOMO is a little bit canned but also equally sincere. Indeed, if the lines sometimes sound vaguely pre-packaged, it’s mostly because SASU RIPATTI, 31, has been proselytising like this for a decade now, jumping back and forth electronic and experimental works and each time he comes back to making LUOMO productions he has no guilt going all the way to the medium he sees for him to explore; pop and everything it carries around. He is nothing less than a great tragedian, holding a mirror before a music society that sometimes would like to hear less stories.

Nevertheless he finds the dance music medium most suitable for his pop explorations, which makes sense when you consider his heavy-hitting resume in the electronic and experimental music mediums. He resists pigeonholing and is against market fundamentalism but still loves to cross over to pop worlds. For him the fear is never an option and somewhat through all that he has a remarkable ability to endure, with a respectable and wide-ranging catalogue of unique no-frills releases, with "Convivial" certainly being no exception.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Have You Ever (w/ CASSY),
2. Love You All (w/ SASCHA RING aka APPARAT),
3. If I Can't (w/ JAKE SHEARS),
4. Nothing Goes Away (w/ SUE CIE & JOHANNA IIVANAINEN),
5. Robert's Reason (w/ ROBERT OWENS),
6. Slow Dying Places (w/ JOHANNA IIVANAINEN),
7. Sleep Tonight (w/ JOHANNA IIVANAINEN),
8. Gets Along Fine (w/ CHUBBS),
9. Lonely Music Co. (w/ JOHANNA IIVANAINEN)

Tim's take on "Love You All" said it better than I ever could. Amazing, amazing song.

off topic, but would appeal to Luomo fans

Shaque Lilli
http://www.myspace.com/shaquelilli

Influences: Kraftwerk - David Sylvian - Karl Lagerfeld - Josephine Baker - Beyoncé- Joy division - Prince - My bloody valentine - Cocteau Twins - Andre 2000 - Luther Vandross - Moondog - and many more

signed to the danish label:

Speed of Sound
http://www.speedofsound.dk/SOS%20-%20Artists.html

Luther Vandross - Moondog

Of course

TIm, your short bits on the new tracks has left me drooling

Album gets a touch sleepy in the middle for me but picks up with the final tracks. Then again we'll see what relistens prompt.

OUR FAVOURITE LUMBERJACK & DUB NOIR PILOT RETURNZ WITH HIS LUOMO PROJECT

"Album gets a touch sleepy in the middle for me but picks up with the final tracks. "

For me only "If I Can't" and "Robert's Reason" are weaker tracks.

AGF talks about moving to a remote island on her website (xpost)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

― Tim F, Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

truth. it's up there. on repeat.

cant wait to listen to this when i get home

yeah, this is awesome.

is this out? or is it "out"?

This item will be released on October 20th, 2008

to the internet!

can't wait to hear this item!

it's a good item

count me in for this one item or less

this may be album of the year for me as well, sublime! listening to 'kohde' off entain now, he really has a pretty trajectory from primordial ambient goo dub to gorgeous, full bloom pop, doesn't he? how well do these records sell outside of strictly dance circles i wonder?

<3 but im missing two traxx it seems ... :D

"Robert's Reason"

i think this is gr8

wow, this album.

yeah i thought maybe there was some tim f hyperbole going on but no

"yeah i thought maybe there was some tim f hyperbole going on but no"

You act like the two things are mutually exclusive.

never lose the hyperbole!

"get along fine" is some serious ((((((d-_-b))))))