HT: Fonal Tour: Kiila + Es + Islaja
Saturday 25th March 2006
Venue: CB2 Restaurant and Cafe
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Finnish Free Folk
Price Info: £6
Time Info: 8PM
25th March 2006
Fonal Records Tour:
Kiila (Fonal)
Es (Fonal/(K-RAA-K) 3)
Islaja(Fonal)
CB2 Basement
8PM
£6
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ADVANCE TICKETS ADVISED OR GET THERE VERY EARLY. THIS SHOW IS EXPECTED TO SELL OUT QUICK.
For MP3s, video and more visit the Fonal Records site.
Well, after an amazing performance at Palimpsest Festival we are so very pleased to have KIILA play again, this time joined by more free thinking Finnish counterparts ES and ISLAJA.
KIILA
KIILA are a collective of musicians who play experimental music whilst maintaining (at times) pop song structures and workouts. Esoteric instrumentation and intrinsic playing between the musicians develop this slowing building and breaking folk music.
Sami Sänpäkkilä lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician, film-maker and the head of Fonal Records. Sami's fourth solo release is "Sateenkaarisuudelma" double LP released by the Belgian (K-RAA-K)3 records on 1st of november 2005. Sami has created 15 short films and music videos which have been screened in various museums, art gallerys and film festivals around the world. The films and the music are 5-30 minute experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope. Es has perfomed across North America and Europe at various festivals including Sonar 2005, Subcurrent and Itsenäisyysyö at the famous B2 club in Moscow.
ES
'Besides running Fonal, Finland's most consistently mind-blowing independent label, Sami Sänpäkkilä plays out as Es aka Experimental Songcycles, a solo project with its own solar system of guest players and contributors. Last year's Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys was his greatest zone-pitch to date, with huge assemblages of electronic zow intersecting with choral vocals and traditional folk chant to birth a supremely psychoactive trip. But this beautifully packaged double album tops even that and might just be the single greatest long-form statement to come out of modern Finland to date. Across four immaculately rendered sides Sami builds beautiful constructions of piano, electronics, chant and manipulated reeds that are as brain-exploding as Terry Riley's all-night flights while touching on bases as charged as Fripp and Eno circa No Pussyfooting and Neu circa "Leb' Wohl". If Alan Licht ever thinks of doing another Minimalist Top Ten, this sucker should sit comfortably in the top five. Features guest appearances from, amongst others, Jan Anderzen and Lau Nau and comes in a beautiful full-colour gatefold sleeve'. The Wire/David Keenan
ISLAJA
"Ginland's Islaja plays music for staring, so long as you don't expect your visions to coalesce into anything recognizable or "pretty" in the traditional sense. Her acoustic-based music soundtracks a hangover, or the scary part of a mushroom binge-- which is different than saying it sounds good when you're hung over or strung out. Rather, her kind of folk music is closer to real life than I want to be in the darkest moments, only intermittently letting the light peek through. Through blurry layers of harmonium, multi-tracked (though not always harmonized) vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, wooden blocks of percussion and bells, she's got more in common with an abstract expressionist painter than a folk musician, using her palette to fill in the details of subconscious experience. Somehow, this doesn't end up sounding overwrought or pretentious. It's a "naive" sound, even when I wonder how hard it is to be naive when you're tracking six instruments and polyphonic vocals on every song. Nevertheless, she's kindred to Charalambides, Syd Barrett, and many of her Fonal label mates in this regard: strangely accomplished, but alien and evocative of nothing in particular." - Pitchfork
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