Antero Honkanen, Åke Andersson -  / Ode To Marilyn
Antero Honkanen, Åke Andersson -  / Ode To Marilyn

Antero Honkanen, Åke Andersson - / Ode To Marilyn

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Label:    Creel Pone - CRP 197-197.5
Format:     2CD
Country:    Finland
Released:    Feb 1977
Genre:    Electronic
Style:    Experimental

A pair of mid-70s Finnish Experimental Electro-Acoustic gems featuring "Suomalaista Elektroakustista Musiikkia" 's Antero Honkanen, masquerading as 1). a picturesque "Music To Accompany Paintings" affair and 2). a straight-ahead jazz-fusion session. 

The first disc here covers "Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat," a wonderful set dovetailing pieces by Honaken & Åke Andersson, composed after paintings by Reidar Särestöniemi at the Experimental Studio of Yleisradio. With a production style owing to the formative works made a few hundred kilometers away at EMS in Stockholm, this set is rife with ghostly voices & errant, floating, bubbling electronics laid out in song-length nuggets, with occasional détournement into "Song of the Second Moon" -esque melodic figures and rhythmic filigree.

The second disc offers the entirety of "Ode To Marilyn," a red-herring if there ever was one; essentially a "Headless" studio session involving Finnish jazz legends Edward Vesala & fellow "Suomalaista Elektroakustista Musiikkia" contributor Jarmo Sermilä taken over by Honkanen's Electronic production, to the point where little of the original instrumentation remains. Honkanen's liberal application of studio effects & filtrations all but eroding the timbral & iterative characteristics of most of the "Playing" here, leaving a spectral slime-trail that's as removed from anything remotely "Instrumental" as imaginable.

Tracklist

Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat 
A1        Lapin Kylä Jää Tekojärven Alle 5:25
A2        Kevään Kukka Suopursu Tuoksuu 7:25
A3        Viuluniekka 9:17
A4        Isähahmo Agraarikylän Patriarkaalisen Taivaan Yllä 3:35
B1        Tapporaha 5:28
B2        Ruskea Syksy 5:50
B3        Kaukonen Ennen Vanhaan 7:05
B4        Luostari Lumipyryssä 7:00

Ode To Marilyn

A1        Painajaisia = Nightmares 5:50
A2        Nuken Itku = A Doll’s Cry 6:35
A3        Lohdutus = Consolation 8:15
B1        Öinen Vaikutelma = Nocturnal Impression 6:15
B2        Aallokko = The Waves 2:15
B3        Myytti Itkee Jälleen = The Myth Is Weeping Again 6:05
B4        Keskiyö = Midnight 6:00