Circle :: what album is their best

Just had a check on Discogs, including the collabs but excluding cassette-only releases I make this their...47th album? Plus a bunch of singles. And about 15-20 Pharaoh Overlord albums. Also who knows how many other related releases.

I started trying to draw a 'rock family tree' for them (and the various related artists) years ago, but it was super complex and I never got very far.

Oh man, I would love to have seen that!

I'd have loved to have managed to actually draw it, but it very much got the better of me, sadly! It was a fun idea though.

It seems to have stabilised now, but even just tracking the Circle membership in the earlier years was a head scratcher, let alone connecting up all the other acts.

Aside from a low key cassette release last year, 2017's Terminal is still the last Circle-proper album. I think Jussi has released a ton of stuff in that time, though, not to mention the Aktor, four PO albums (plus the instrumental version of PO 6.)

I'd love to see that (attempt at a) family tree!

It's been a long time since I went through my Circle collection, but I think my favorites are Andexelt, Hissi, Alotus, and Sunrise. I used to rate Katapult highly, but I listened to it tonight and tbh found it pretty annoying and half-assed in places. May just not have been in the right mood. Black Black Never Never Land used to be the song I tried introducing friends to Circle with for some reason.

surprised at that alotus. to me it was always the ploddiest one where they don't "go" or achieve lift off in any sense

I dreamed last night that I was watching Circle playing to about 20 people in an attic somewhere along the UK coast. A young, late-60s era Michael Shrieve was on drums. As Michael was about to go into his minimal snare drum solo (that I was very much looking forward to seeing) he was interrupted by Joe Biden, who told me sternly to be less rigid in my beliefs and vote for Keir Starmer. The dream concluded with me being endlessly lectured by Biden on the subject of soft-left politics as the gig ground to a halt around us.

Anyway, best Circle album? Sunrise. Although I can hardly say I've kept up.

I don't even think I can pick a single favorite. It has been relatively quiet on their front lately, so it's been easier to keep up. I've spent a ton of time with Henki, so that might be my current favorite but I'm due another discography run one of these days.

OK so i see i'm not the only person who thought this was about anthony braxton's band with chick corea. i have never heard of a finnish rock band named circle!

if you like braxton/corea/holland/altschul, you'd probably dig at least "infektio" & "golem/vesiliirto", maybe "tyrant" & "miljard" too.
circle doing judas priest breakdance music with braxton on contrabass sarussaphone would be a dream come true for me

― massaman gai, Friday, August 12, 2016 3:33 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

we will see

INFEKTIO sounds Necks-y to me

the vocals are fucking horrible though