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