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Everything ends eventually and so it should be.

Festival was great. We did a good job, although some minor things we could have done better, but so it is always.
Point of views.
I was happy to see so many dear people and some specially dear people and to see them happy. I felt happy too and feel still happy, and slightly sad, but in a good way.

Back to working life today, and it was good too. It’s nice to go to work where you want to go.

Jerome had send me Nadja’s Corrasion (+ other stuff) and it looks and sounds great. Of course.
Blue vinyl, ah.

There was again some thoughs that I should have written down, but I didn’t and I’m not sure can I recollect them now. Something about dancing, and love, and war, and communication.
To think world would change if everybody would dance CI is.. well true, but would it change for better and how much? I’m not so sure. I’m quite sure we would still have wars and fights and whatnot.
However dancing is great so it could help if everyone tried it.

But to think… I can be open when I’m dancing, but I’m not an open person. I keep myself to myself, often. Like in here. I tell a lie, but ask anybody. To make assumptions about anyone for what ever reason and not to recognize those to be Just assumptions, is stupid. Nevertheless I do it all the time.
So please tell me who you are and what do you want. And yet again we fall into the question of identity.

When I dance who am I? dance is dance, I’m not dancing the dance, dance is dancing me. When it’s good. Ilona was saying the same (I think) but at the time I though of something else. I think the problem I mostly fall with language is that the concept of I is totally wrong. It is me who is dancing all the time. And it is (I am) aware, It (I) does what it’s have to, no more no less, but it’s (I’m) beyond the questions of good/evil right/wrong life/death. And maybe for a human being that is not such a common state. Although it can be achieved, for me often with the help(?) of art.

Ok, let’s leave philosophy aside.

I might have done mistake today. I changed my phone operator deal and ordered a new phone. I really need one, since my old is broken and hardly working (sometimes people on the other end hear me, sometimes not), but I’m not sure was this a good deal or not. Let’s see. It’s always problematic when you’re “stuck” with something for 2 years. Well, let’s see how does it go. After all, it’s only money, I just “lost” 230€ because not being able to use the flight tickets I had on wednesday to barcelona. But I have rehearsals, and I want to be here, not in barcelona. Just couldn’t change the dates with reasonable price. So it goes.

Next summer looks full, but we are not there yet.

Please do tell me

Long time of no writing. No feeling to do it.
But there has been a lot going on somewhere I’m sure. Nothing here except on some level.

This meeting we ahd with the start of annoyance: Who’s annoying you.
I keep my filters/shell on not to annoy you even more? No I don’t know is that the answer.
I keep my filters/shell on because I’m afraid? No I don’t know is that the answer.
How do you know you’re afraid?

I’ve been so dissapointed to so many things. Mainly to myself and not being able to see way clear through. So much of what I just don’t know about myself or are not clear/certain of. Certaintity is a trap anyway.

And new music flooding in, Something that keeps me sane… or alive I think.
Well it’s not the only thing.
I should write more about September Malevolence‘s After this darkness, There’s a next and maybe I will. There’s is a great reason why it’s in top 08. And again great reminder why the genre of music isn’t important. They’re using so much typical “post-rock” sounds and arrangements, but the songs are brilliant unlike so many other “post-rock” act. And I don’t know where sweden get’s all it’s singers. SM’s singer could be from logh almost.. but adding vocals is good. specially because also their lyrics are, if not all, some really good. This album also helped me to get some of the sadness out I have stored in me. So what I do. I get the cd version of it too.

Helms Alee was a positive surprise, but you can read more from Aversion Online if you want a review. But I like it a lot.

Mouth Of Architect/Kenoma split is well.. MOA’s side is brilliant, it’s catchier than their new album I think, now.

Then there’s a plenty of stuff from electro side of things that I found from staalplaat when visiting berlin. One of my favourites is although buddha machine II. After getting it I had to get the first version also. But also from that you can read plenty just searching if you want. But it’s brilliant. I even ordered for my ipod touch which I don’t have! I’m just so sure I’ll get one and what would be better first aplication to install than BuddhaMachine.

So what about buddhism or Zen. yeah I’m onto it. After coming to the same conclusion about the “self” by rational thinking while being on a trip all of this has been very amusing for me. The proble with rationality is that it has very few connection to actual life. We think it is connected, but mainly most of us are still moved by emotions, urges, needs, wants, instincts. It’s ok. I know I need dicipline.

I have this huge project going on of getting all of my cd’s onto a hard drive. With iMac that reads about 3x speed one cd it will take ages.
One reason why I’ve been listening mainly vinyl lately.

Once upon the time dEUS was great. But all things pass. Well no, they might still be great, but their studio efforts haven’t been so. And this is of course, like everything, just my humble subjective perception.

Reading Endymion and the last sequel by Dan Simmons. It’s soap but keeps me entertained.

Please do tell me

I’ll do this even though shorter this time. These are Not in order, of any kind.

Capsule – Blue
Just brilliant. HC, melodies, energy, intensity, atmosphere.

Black Boned Angel & Nadja – Christ Send Light
So good. Makes me somehow happy and willing to give everything away because realisizing I have nothing and I’ll never have. This feels good.

Nadja – Bungled and Botched
After hearing Desire in uneasiness I as slightly worried, It didn’t really work for me, but after this my worries were blown away. Name song is such a massive construction of quality.

Nadja – Touched (vinyl)
Nadja – Radiance of shadows (vinyl)
Nadja – Truth Becomes Death (vinyl)

It’s just that releasing these on vinyl is such a right thing to do.

Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
I wrote about more of this earlier

Nice to have them back.

Virus – Black Flux
Nothing sounds like this? Does it? it’s so clear continuation for Carheart, it’s great. Where the hell else you can hear such a waves in the music? And who else can make a line “peacocks used to walk these lawns” so threatning filled with loss.

Motorpsycho – little lucid moments
Two first song are tremendously brilliant rock.

Spoon – Gagagagaga (2007)
07 release but I found it on 08. Made my summer so much better with “Finer Feelings” and “Don’t You Evah”

September Malevolence – after this darkness, there is next
Such a huge step from the debut. Melancholic and moody. Beautiful as hell.

Audrey – The fierce and the longing
Beginning of summer, Good. “Way your sking fits so well”

Ihsahn – angL
I’ve been having troubles with falling out from metal scene so totally, so hard to find anythign worth while and there’s so much that I don’t know where to start. This was a pleasant “find”.

Andrey Kiritchenko – Misterrious
Already Andrey’s previous one for Spekk was brilliant. THis continues in the same vein. I like it.

Bon Iver – For Emma, forever ago
Damn this grew on me. In all of the sadness or melancholy it’s just makes me feel happy that there is someone(s) who can and make music this good.

Please do tell me

While having these pseudo philosophical thoughs, hippie stuff, bloody buddhism and not writing at all I, of course, have been receiving a punch of music. Actually I’ve been having so much of it that I don’t know where to start and what to say about all of them, so maybe I just try to write about few I got a while back.

Let’s start from the fact that my record player, vinyl player is broken, or most probably it just needs new needle, and I’ll get that soon (saturday) and hope that will fix it, but mean while I not going to listen any vinyl I have. And as you can see from the pictures all the stuff I decided (more or less) to try to write about is on vinyl.
But not only.

Glös‘s [I hate myspace] Harmonium is something I had on my computer for a long while, I just never properly listened it through, then it came up and I read that it had same people than in Denali[I hate myspace], sister and brother. I really like Denali‘s first one, and the Glös vinyl was quite cheap and colored so of course I was interested. I listened the album through couple of times and noticed it’s good and ordered it, of course. What I mean when saying good? It’s good, it’s not blowing me away. It’s very solid in a way that I don’t pick up immidiate hit songs but at the same time I could play any song and it would be rather good example what you get. It certainly has connection also musically with Denali‘s post grunge (what ever that is) but more machines added. I miss a bit more vocals from Maura, but it’s ok. Good album.

Almost all of these are actually (co) releases of adagio 830. and I ended up ordering these… well I ordered something from them, but then cancelled it, and check out is there anything I could take with samo price, and all the colored ones we’re their own releases, so… it just kinda happened, also all of these were quite cheap (12€).

Ok but on witht the music. First one was actually …who calls so loud[I hate myspace]. Colored double 10″ with the cd was the catch, but because I’m very poor nowdays (and have always been) I tend to listen music first before buying (yes, seriously.. and no, not always). So I went to their myspace [I hate myspace] and listened the sample songs over there, and was interested, but not straight away. There is something very nice with the actual songs, guitars, drums, intensity, but the vocals are a bit challenging. So I went to explore the wonderful land of internet and found the album. I listened the whole album through couple of times, and started somehow like the vocals, wierd enough. Actually so much that I ordered their 12″ and I was about to order their shirt, but came to senses, and now I’m regretting it. (I think I’ll get the shirt eventually, it had tiger on it)
So the music, what? emo punk, well, maybe not so much of the punk. Emo? well maybe but I’m getting lost with all these genre settings and rules. It’s played with guitars and drums and bass, and somebody is, if not singing, delivering some form of human voice. It has rather catchy things going on somewhere, because even though not stright away sticking in to your head, they will stick to your head. I noticed that had these song playing in my head after those couple of listen throughs, and that was actually the final reason why I ordered it (have I ordered them in cd? good question)
Since thing is that they haven’t named the bloody lp’s, so both are (as long as I have figured out) …who calls so loud other 2×10″ and other 12″ the 12″ doesn’t even have the song names on it (at least I haven’t found them) but the song titles are on their myspace. last.fm loves this.

Then Gods and Queens[I hate myspace] were almost same kind of case, but this time I only listened through the myspace [I hate myspace] songs and ordered it. It also came with cd. Punkish art not so much art and eventually I would again say rock. Well always when there is these “choirs” of yelling I think of punk. Also G&Q don’t have any album title, let alone song titles. Nice. But I like the music nevertheless.

Then the one I didn’t know anything of Haram‘s Drescher. It was cheap and yellow vinyl. And this is the of course the positive surprise of the group. Again I would somehow categorize it to emo punk, but it’s really just rock. The album is really good, there something that reminds me of Swervedriver, something how the guitars work together. So again really good guitar stuff, solid drumming, ok vocals and Good songs. For some funny way this makes me happiest from all of these, not the music, but the fact taht I got it. It’s probably just the effect of surprise, but nevertheless.

The last album over there in the pictures are a bit different kind. I didn’t heard it at all before ordering it, but their previous album was and is really good. Mouth of the architect‘s [I hate myspace] The Ties that Blind has grown on me about every time I listen to it, so it was clear I will order their new one, Quietly. On the first listen I was already sure it is good, and it is. After more listening I’m not sure is it as good as the previous, but it is good. Right now I feel it don’t have as much hooks as the The Ties… but this might change during the time. I think Quietly is also a grower.

Other stuff I’ve been having:

• Boris & Merzbow – Rock Dream (more listen throughs)
• Omega Massif (more listen throughs)
• Fear Falls Burning (slowly we lift.. sound really good)
• Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (2 first albums are still the best)
• Eksi Ekso
• Bunch of others…. Argh

This basically means that I’ll try to do another post of other stuff, when if I have anything worth while to say.
Well… About Eksi Ekso‘s I am your bastard wings, It’s brilliant, specially the first actual song is blowing, it’s actually such a hit that it almost overshadows the rest of the album, but then, it doesn’t. Great arrangement and orchestrations, singer who has a voice, emotianally and musically powerfull (or is this the same thing?). It reminds me a lot of things, singer brings Bark Psychosis to my mind (if they have connection please tell me, but I think not), Somehow I come to thing that it’s somehow… well no, but maybe Thee Silver Mt.Zion could sound a bit like this too if the Efrim learned (or cared) to sing well, or if he just would step a side and let someone more capable to do the singing.
I actually do have picture also from Eksi Ekso (black/orange), but maybe I’ll post it later with that next bunch of albums.

I hope to get: A good Job with meaningful substance and good enough salary.

Sometime soon, hopefully, some thoughs about living&time

Please do tell me

Instead of writing my philosophical though (hah) I’ll post another song.
I got this “riff” yesterday I think. But I can’t play it and sing at the same time because I fuck up the rhythm totally so I had to use my fostex. I have no idea why the sound of guitars is so stuffed and muffled… and like usually I can’t be bothered. I wrote the lyrics today. Missing is something my lyrics have gone around for all these years.
I’m also having a slight flu, but somehow, I like to sound of my voice now. I specialy like the high notes…
Ok, so nothing new, but right now, I like the song.

I’m also going to post another version of Play My Name made with fostex, just because another voice. Soon. Meanwhile hear this.

The fact, it even occured to me, surprised deep within
Technique and all the cables involved, overwhelming
small square that shows the space so far, hard to believe in
but something important, the touch, is missing

so now we meet through the screen delayed and slightly blurry
you say you’re having a busy week and a lot of things around it
I tell I’m missing of the touch of your skin
and sound of breathing, reply: I miss it

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Ok.

I got something done, very little but still. This will be my second time releasing something my own here at wavetales. Yesterday I made this little song, today I wrote to lyrics and then just recorded it with my iMac internal mic. So it’s just a small demo but maybe you can get something out of it. And my songs don’t tend to change that much anyway over the times.

I’ll share you also the lyrics although those probably will change a bit

I go beneath the green and keep my eyes shut
Warmness surrounding
Slowly lifting towards the sky

As you say my name
I feel better I’ve felt in a long time
As you play your game
I feel like I am little lost child
As you say my name
I keep looking for signs of resurrection
as you play your game
Reassurance is all that I long for

Second version with another vocal track

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original demo

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Ok, somehow I think that this band has had a quite amount of publicity already.
But some more.
I got this from the internet.. yes sue me… oh, no please don’t.
I fell in love with the first song: Centennial. It has the qualities I always fall in… not really sad, but longing, somehow. And of course the first lines of lyrics helped: “this is skin you can wrap all of your arm and legs in”.
So when I found the album on vinyl I ordered it of course. And it had mp3 download coupon with it, with some bonus tracks. Way to go! That’s how I like it (BTW: Also Band of Horses Cease to begin vinyl came with download coupon). So I can legally listen the music with my iPod, as well as in home from vinyl.
Tak, somehow most of the song sound a lot like each others. Mainly I think because of the vocal melodies. IT’s ok though, when listening more they start to separate from each others. However I haven’t found as brilliant pearl as Centennial is. Enjoy, buy the album, shouldn’t be too expensive.

Tokyo Police Club – Centennial

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When I first heard Band of Horses I didn’t really get into them. Then I heard that tey formed from remains of Carissa’s Wierd and though that I have to, since Song About Leaving is such a magnificent album. So I borrowed Band Of Horses‘ Everything all the time from my good friend and fell in love with the first song, the guitar melody is so catchy, it’s brilliant, it alone justifies the whole album, but then I got the album for myself as a vinyl, and learned to love the rest of the album too, eventhough the first song is clearly the HIT for me.
Then their second album Cease to Begin came out, and for some reason I didn’t catch it. Maybe I read some review or something, I don’t know why, but I didn’t get it, or hear it at all. Then in the beginning of summer I was visiting my friend again and asked what he thinks about the Cease to Begin, He said is ok, so I got it from him. And I fell Totally in love with No one’s gonna Love You, it’s so sad, and so beautiful and so great, this time it’s not the guitar, just, it’s the whole chord loop and the melody, in the verse, Chorus is ok, but the whole thing is in the verse, and then the words:
“Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you’d be better off
Or you liked it that way”

Such a greatness, and still after the summer and even though I got this album also on vinyl, I can’t get pass this song, I only listen to this one, maybe at some point I can actually listen the whole album, but not yet.
So I want to share this Gem with you, who ever you are, and hopefully that will get you to buy both albums, and also to look into Carissa’s Wierd, eventhough it’s totally different.

Band Of Horses – No one’s Gonna Love You

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Right now Nadja‘s Stays Demons is pouring over me from 4 speakers. It’s awesome.

Updated wordpress, lost all my categories, from posts and links. Got into the datebase finally and tinkered a bit, now they should work again I guess.

I’ve gotten so much music that I can’t even remember what to say about those.

Well I got all three Nadja colored vinyl: Touched, Truth becomes Death and Radiance of Shadows. They’re all great, but that I already new since I’ve been listening those for a while. But somehow vinyl is so much more satisfying, specially when it’s colored. Yeah strange me.
But this I’ve mentioned already in the previous post. It’s so hard to remember what I’ve told already.

But sometime ago I got new Nadja releases. The first one, on their own, is the Bungled and the Botched which has two songs, title one and Absorbed in You. The title piece is absolutely Great! I was so happy since i really didn’t get into Desire in Uneasiness at all. I can’t remember anything from it. But the Bungled and the Botched is again the kind of Nadja I really like, somehow based on one simple riff that just works so well, brilliant! Then the second piece Absorbed in You is a re-make. And it doesn’t open to me so easily, not yet at least.
Other Nadja release is collab with Black Boned Angel Christ Send Light and it’s awesome!!, brilliantly simple, full and lush. Emediatly when I heard it I ordered more stuff from BBA and only after that I read that Christ Send Light is quite untypical track even with their collab (their recorded at least three tracks from which the two are going to be released later on) and that’s why it has been released separatly. Nevertheless it’s great. Strongly recommended.
I got one cd from BBA already and I’m just now listening it for the first time. If you’re into droome (doom and drone) it’s not bad. But I think I have to spend some more time with it before saying anything conclusive.

I also have got some new and old stuff from Aidan Baker. Old being rerecorded. I can’t say anything from them yet, seems like he keeps his standarts pretty well.

Apparently I previously also mentioned Spoon‘s Ga ga ga ga ga and the hit songs from there. Let me tell you taht unfortunately after a couple of listentroughs Gimme Fiction doesn’t show as much potential as Ga x 5

I also got (a long time ago) Audrey‘s The Fierce and the Longing as a yellow vinyl. The album is very good, but I do prefer Visible Forms. At the same time I got September Malevolence‘s new effort After this darkness, there’s a next (clear/brown). I heard a lot of praise for their debut album Tomorrow We’ll Wonder Where This Generation Gets It’s Priorities From, but for some reason I didn’t really got into that album at all. I much more preferred other Tenderversion artist, like Audrey, Once We Were and Scraps of Tape. So I was a bit sceptical towards the new one too, but it gave me a pleasant surprise. warm vocals that remind me a lot of Logh and good songs. It is of course rather melacholic (or that’s how I remember) so I’m always sucked into that kind of stuff easily.

With those I also got Gregor Samsa‘s Rest, and some other stuff that I haven’t really listened through even early well enough to say anything about them.

Visited Robotic Empire’s store and found ISIS live IV as honey colored vinyl. Well you know what that means. at the same time I got Giants‘ They, the undeserving and I found the Life and Times Suburban Hymns as a clear one.
Now, I haven’t really listened Isis or Giants anough yet but the Life and Times I have.

Long time ago (like 2005) I got this sampler from souhern records which contained Coat of arms from the Life and Times and maybe because of that I also stumbled on My last hostage video and I really liked it. I mean the song, video is ok too, but the song is great. Back then I wondered should I orde the album, but I never got around of it. Now when I saw the vinyl I though why not (clearness helped) and hey, the whole album is rather good. Of course I easily get stuck on the hit song, but because it’s being vinyl it’s quite easy to continue onwards. I am really pleased.

Another vinyl I’ve been listening lately is Ihsahn‘s angL, I just got it without listening. Contrary to most reviews in the net I always really liked Emperor‘s last one, Prometheus. To me is not chaotic it’s beautifully composed through out, with awesome riffs and melodies and whatnot, truly powerful work. And according to information floating Prometheus was mainly Ihsahn‘s work. However for some reason I didn’t get into the Adversary when hearing the samples. This time however I didn’t think much (it being vinyl helped) and got it. And it’s a bloody good album. Great pieces through out. I really should look much more into metal since it just always touches me so easily, at least when it’s good. Sadly it’s so hard to stay in tuned with all of the stuff happening in so many genres. I should be in the business, but I don’t know how.

Which springs to mind that I haven’t mentioned new Cult Of Luna, Eternal Kingdom. It’s hard to believe that CoL could dissapoint at this stage, and you know what? It Doesn’t Eternal Kingdom is yet another great album. However at the moment I do prefer Somewhere along the highway, but then again when SAtH came out I preferred Salvation and how wrong I was. So it might well be that Eternal Kingdom will continue rising. Strongly recommended to everyone.

And while I was ordering the rerelease of I fall into You by Aidan Baker“>Aidan Baker I happened to order loads of Wereju, drone and drone. I can’t say much about it. It’s drone, it might be good. It’s not bad at least.

Also new Bass Communion Molotov and Haze and old Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun on vinyl.

So how is life?
Full of music.

Travelling is nice but the downside is that all the lovely people you meet life far from you. And often you stay one week in somewhere and maybe on those last two, three days you start to feel that ok, this person I would like to know better, and then you never do because two days just isn’t enough. This causes more travelling. Ain’t it fun?

But life is good.

I’m trying to read about Tao and Te, and to me it seems that when reading William Blake, Buddhism and Tao they have more incommon than separate, If you really look at the principles. Everything’s the same. But let’s not be too hasty. Big things. Everything was, is and will be.

Do take part or apart.

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Oh oh oh.

I got meself a new pair of speakers.
They’re highly praised in their range of budget.
I was thinking of other ones, but for some reason the manufacturer stopped the model.
Okay some names. I got Magnat 503, I was thinking of Tannoy Fusion 2.

Now back home with magnat, yes bass is there, but some how I like the sound of my old speakers. it has more middle range and less bass, with magnat the middle range sounds so different. It is there for sure, but it just sounds different, more silent. I’m not sure do I like that really. I guess I’ll get used to it too…
Then again when playing both of them together sound is so full. it’s great. only problem is the space.

That’s sound for you.

Then trying to listen difference between 128 AAC and 191 MP3 is also so so so difficult. I can’t really hear much difference.

Anyway. I should write something about the music I’m listening shouldn’t I?

Well that 128 AAC is Spoon Ga ga ga ga ga which I got from my friend and then I bought it on vinyl since don’t you evah and finer feelings are such a great songs and the rest of the album is pretty cool too. and then when buying an album you get a free download, so that’s how I got the 191 MP3, now I just wonder which ones I should leave on my library?
Actually Gagagagaga is so good that I also bought their previous (i guess) Gimme fiction.
Haven’t listened to it yet though.

I finally got the packet of Nadja vinyl: Touched (silver), Truth Becomes Death (gold) and Radiance Of Shadows (white)

I don’t know.
I’m not sensible at all.

I got three “songs” I should do.
Ice Queen
Lack of selfconfidence
Collar Bones

The two first ones are inspired by A from Kiev, such a cold woman. I had a great time in moscow dancing with her and making up songs and lyrics at the same time. (edit: great time doing working on three different things at the same time: melody, lyrics and dancing. Dancing wasn’t that great though, I was going a bit on autopilot)

But I had even greater time in moscow because all the other people, because of the whole festival. It was great me thinks. Of course I think that things could always be better (a Bit bigger jam space could have been nice) but all and all and with all the trouble they have had, the festival and the people were Great. Thanks a Bunch.

I gotta go, camp starting soon. I’m pretty sure that some one will hack into this post also, but let’s see.

Take Care now.

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When returning from a trip there was a pleasant package waiting. New Audrey cd “The Fierce and the Longing”.

I have written about Audrey’s Visible Forms earlier. It was and is such a great album, it’s almost shocking to find such a quality on one small label, A Tenderversion Recordings (Once We Were, Scraps of Tape, Audrey)

But this new one. Well of course because the debut set up such a high standards and expectations that the new album has a lot of work to live up to them. So the first times it didn’t really catch me, but after hearing around 5 to 10 times I can say. It dies live up the expectations. I can’t really say it would be better than the debut, but I can’t really say it would be worse either.
They’re really quite unique set of people, there is a lot of resemblance to many other artist and at the same time I can’t figure out who would do music like they do. From the first cd they have their own sound and it continues fluently on this second one.
There’s only two things I could complain about: no lyrics, I want lyrics! and the lenght is a bit under 40 minutes, I want more of ths goodness. But at the same time, it’s nice that they don’t have any bad songs around. So I should be happy, rather keep it short and excellent than a bit longer and merely good.

Hit songs? well to me the fifth song, Bleak was an instant hit and got stuck in my head. That’s why I’m going to offer that one. Well I’m not offering really. You hear it here, go to the tenderversion pages and order the album (+big ships 3″ single), it’s about 18€ and that’s a bargain (thinking that many albums in finland are still around 20€). Denovali records have also pressed vinyl version (yes it’s coming to me) so if you prefer vinyl go there.

I’m so glad of this, as soon as I noticed new album coming I pre-ordered both cd and vinyl versions, without a doubt. And the album IS great (now I just have to get visible forms vinyl from sinnbus). Ah… music saves my life.

Audrey – Bleak

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On my last day in Kiev, this song started to play on my mind, luckily I had it on iPod.
Ever since (that was only yesterday remember) It has been playing in my head and in my iPod and on my stereos.
I’ve been writing already about Stina Nordenstam‘s album Dynamite. I still can’t find words to describe how good it is, such amazing productions, such amazing songs. Such a beautiful moods.
This last song wasn’t in my best list for a long time, since so many songs of the beginning are so catching. But somehow it’s sticks to your mind, doesn’t it.
And it reveals this such a beautiful sad hope that lingers around those ahahahaa’s around 1:27 and following distorted guitars. Everything is already said and done, and there’s nothing that can change the way things are…

If thinking the album as a whole, the new editions really suffer of the added “dynamite (soundtrack mix)“. Now that you’re leaving should be the last song on the album. I personally have removed the dynamite mix from my iPod and also kept iTunes from playing it.

I’m turning out the light
Now that you’re leaving
To see things black and white
Now that you’re leaving
To kill you in the dark
To give my last remark
I’ll stay up tonight
Now that you’re leaving
I’m running backwards on a train
All is coming back to me again
A crowd of people in my way
And everyone has got your face
Between what I was
And what I will be
I’m held back by your ghost
And what I couldn’t be

Stina Nordenstam – Now that you’re leaving

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Ok.

I’m not sure should I do this, The song is Karen Revisited by Sonic Youth, from the album Murray Street.
The song is magnificent, but unfortenutally, in my opinion the magnificent part is only that 3 and half minutes. the rest is ok, but doesn’t contain same kind of pop simplicity and beauty than the first 3 minutes.

I always get stuck to this song (those first 3&1/2 minutes) and play it over and over again until I either cry or just have to stop.
It has just the right amount of sadness and memory and longing and happiness mixed in a way you rarely hear (this is something what Aerial managed to get from SY for their first ep btw).
Of course the lyrics do their share (specially about memory), but more importantly listen this with headphones and hear how the guitars work together. The middle one giving the base, the right side is playing ultimate hook, but at the same time the left side is doing small hammering thingies that are just… and on the top Lee’s voice.

…Ask me if I care…

So I want to share this with you (who ever you are). I just want to share with some one. And I hope you get the same amount of emotions and movement as I do. There’s such many kinds of beauty.

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Ok.
So a lot of new music as always.
You can read reviews of the new Portishead from somewhere else. Let me just say that I like it. It’s clearly Portishead (well Beth Gibbons voice is so recognizable), but at the same time it’s something new.

Capsule‘s Blue is good. Nice mix of fastness and slowness, simplicity and complexity. It stayd on my turntable for quite a long time.

I didn’t really got into Caspian or Beware of Safety yet, but I’m not on post-rock mood, so maybe later.

Bossk‘s 1. is very very good. but 2. doesn’t move me so much. Why is this? Well it’s very hard to say because they’re quite a like, but maybe 1. just has more catchier riffs. But this I have stated already earlier.

I finally got into Porcupine Tree‘s Fear of a blank Planet. Yeah it’s good, I do admit that. Also We lost the Skyline is good. I like the name dropping part. I don’t know what is it. I liked In Absentia quite much, but I never got the hang of Deadwing. Maybe I have to try it again. Also I got Bass Communion‘s Pacific Codex, which at few first listens feels an dissapointment and I also got 2 cd version of Ghost on Magnetic Tape, other cd being Reconstructions by A. Liles. About this I was quite happy.

Jacaszek‘s Treny is really good. I got it because of comparisons to Max Richter and Arvo Pärt. Well to me Jacaszek is somehow simpler music than the comparison, maybe just because he is using loops quite a lot on the background, but it doesn’t make the album bad, no way. And someways if you think of the mood and feelings (which are most important stuff anyway) I can hear connections to MR and AP. Treny is actuallly an album that I have listened quite a lot and I want to listen to it more, I have this feeling that I really should listen to it more. Of course I have the same feeling about a lot of stuff, but where with others this feeling is sometimes somewhat reluctant, with Treny it isn’t. Somehow the closest comparison to this is actually Greg Haines‘ Slumber Tides which is good also. And no wonder since both are released by Miasmah, which is a label by the other guy on Deaf Center. It figures.

I got more Troum, but I won’t say much about that yet. Haven’t really listened enough except AIWS which I liked some much I got more, so that must tell you something. I actually got Equation records tan/halo version of Sen which is probably one of the most beautiful vinyl packages I’ve seen in a while… And Sen is awesome too. That I’ve listened.

With Troum and stuff I also got Pawel Grabowski‘s Arh. Lay out is so nice for a cd. Thanks for that. And the music is haunting but I was slightly annoyed to find out that track numer three is the exact same track as Cirr’s Song II. I want something new. Or at least I would like it to be mentioned either on Arh or Cirr’s Song 7″, that it has been used before (yes I can’t remember which one has been released earlier). But if you’re into ambient and drone and not too happy moods Grabowski is definetly someone you should check out.

After a very long while I also got some stuff from Temporary Residence Limited, and it reminded me why I like them so much. First when I got the package it was so badly torn that the cover of Sleeping People‘s Growing was also torn. Luckily the actual vinyl was fine, and it was colored (yes, it’s a big deal to me). I wrote to them and got an answer a next day where they offered to send me new one (cover) with my next order. It’s not really their fault at all (I said this to them), but they are still willing to make offers. It’s so nice. And then the music they are releasing is really great. Growing is an awesome album, although I tend to get stuck with the “last” song having, not just vocals, but Rob Crow on vocals which make all the difference. Other one from TRL is The Drift‘s Memory Drawings which is beautiful music and beautiful vinyl as well.

Then I got a couple of Nadja releases. they are releasing too much… too much I say… Or he is. It’s so hard to keep up just with Aidan and Nadja releases. God. Well I got 2002 version of Touched, from the internet of course. And Lo! it’s very different than 2007 version. To me 2007 is so much better that I don’t even have a words for it. 2007 version of Bliss Torn from Emptiness was better than 2005 version. Then about I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth I’m not so sure. I actually might like the 2004 version more than 2007 version which was on the Radiance of Shadows. (I was actually lucky to get the “original” cd-r version of I have tasted…). But all and all, my hopes of new and re-recorded Nadja releases have been high. I’m not so sure anymore. Nadja/Netherworld split isn’t really that good. I actually think that it could have been released rather under Aidan’s own name, but then again Nadja’s and Aidan’s solo material have never been too far away from each other to begin with and Leah is playing bass on those tracks so, err maybe that’s a reason enough. Then I got re-recorded Skin Turns to Glass. The “original” 2003 version has some my favourite tracks in it, like Slow Loss. So I as hopeful, but no. They have lifted the tempo, and thus lost the slow avalanche mass that covers the listener. It’s a pity really. I have to say I was dissapointed. And yesterday I got Trinity which has three songs 1st Aidan’s 2nd Leah’s and 3rd Nadja’s and.. well it’s not bad, I’ve only listened it to once but it doesn’t really… Well actually I should shut up. After all I listened Bodycage‘s Clinodactyl several times until I realised how good it was/is. But on Clinodactyl there are these small pieces of melody hidden underneath the mass, and those stayed on my head. I’m not sure does the new one (Trinity) have those. I know if you search you can find Desire of Uneasiness floating in the net. And I have actually found it already, but as I did with Ulver‘s Shadows of the Sun, I’ve decided to wait till I have the “original” on my hands. Then of course I’ll rip it to my hard disk anyway and listen it through the computer like everything else now days, but it’s the principle that counts. Oh with the Skin Turns to Glass came a t-shirt, which I’ve been using (almost) ever since, it’s so great.

I still have to mention this “new” stereo amplifier which has given me so much joy, really things DO sound better. I just got the Boo Radleys‘ Giant Steps vinyl back from my ex, and my good it sound good. There really is some bass stuff I haven’t heard so well with the old stereo system I had. Great great great.

So I’m a consumerist. that’s true.

Heyheyhey. At least one more thing about music: Audrey‘s new album is being released anyminute now by Tenderversion (cd) and Denovali (vinyl) I haven’t heard a single note, but I’m 98% sure that it will be great.
Other forth coming (or already released) stuff I should lok into are at least stuff from raster-noton (at least Kangding Ray is a must, and Ryoji), I also should look more into other Miasmah stuff (since Treny is grinding my brain right now, in a good way), I actually found Miasmah originally when searhing stuff from Encre, but it was already sold out, I hope they’ll get another press of it.

Ok other stuff except music. We have an premiere on next tuesday. Today’s rehearsals were ok, I’m slightly scared and nervous. Our musician keeps tells me how stuck I am, and it’s true there’s many areas where my muscles are stuck. like back thighs, hamstrings (is it really written this way). They’re tight, but I wonder what makes them tight? My breast muscles are thight too, and that’s probably too much of sitting in front of the computer (like right now). So there’s a lot of work to do.

As soon as I returned home I gained weight, too much weight, I want to get rid of it. I’ll try.

And after that (gaining weight) I was snowboarding for three days, thanks to Kati and Elena. It was great, I haven’t snowboarded about two or three years, and I honestly didn’t remember how great it is. There was all this hassle about going, like how is going, how much it will cost, etc etc. and for a long time I wasn’t sure about going because my low budget (all my money going to music that is). But I decided to go. On a second day it was very cloudy and foggy, and after three hills I had a small brake and then happiness just came to me. I was so glad that I came there. Then on our drive back to south I felt myself coming more and more tired and depressed more close we got to hellsinki. But it’s not just the place, it’s also this idea of being on a holiday and then coming back. So I’m not moving to north just yet.

Yesterday I was searching airfares to berlin, pretty expensive, but I’m late again, I know. But I just notice that with the same amount of money (into the travelling) I could also go to italy. Now the problem is that there is a week between stolzenhagen and oriviento, and that oriviento is pretty expensive, so maybe I’ll not go to italy… but I would like to. Then again who wouldn’t?

Please do tell me

I love this.

He has, no, had such a voice and talent to produce the vocal tracks. And ability to sing sharp. THere’s at least three voice track there. And such a talent for melody, and lyrics.

I love this.

Elliot Smith – St. Ides Heaven

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First of all I should take more photos, just for this site, and otherwise too.

I fell sick on tuesday (probably already monday actually).
Been in fever till yesterday, and right now I just hope it hasn’t risen again. I think not. I’m not feeling very good though.

But into the business. So what I’ve got.
New stereo amplifier, thanks to my dad mainly. Even with these old speakers things do sound better. I just hope that I’ll have some money to get new, smaller but better, speakers too.

I mentioned in last post that I got some albums, so a few words about them.

I got four first The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
For a long time I have been about to get those but I always wanted all of them (on vinyl) and if I ever saw them all on vinyl I didn’t have the money. Now I did. Wisely spent? maybe. Welcome to the Infant Freebase is first and already good, although there are somee song that clearly rise above others. Like Firmament Vacation (A Soundtrack of Our Lives), and Instant Repeater ’99. Very nice rock, like all the albums to be honest. The style doesn’t much change between albums, it’s just that on some albums songs are better than on others.
And they do progress, they seem to get better. No, actually the most hardest one for me to get into is the second: Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of Western Civilization, I can’t really say much about it. I have to listen to it more of course but it just seem to pass me by wthout leaving any recollection of it self to my mind.
The third was the hit. Behind the Music seems to inhold most of top songs Sister Surround being one very hard to get rid of once it has settled inside your head. Then Origin Vol. 1 is quite clear continuation, good songs there too.
This is almost too good mood music for me, but it still works. There is something very relaxing in their retro rock. And of course those couple of live gigs (probably from behind the music era) are still affecting my mind strongly.

But right now I feel that best purchase was Motorpsycho‘s Little Lucid Moments which is also quite clear rock. I already liked their previous Black hole/blank canvas, but it was really long and containing some good songs but also a lot not so great songs. In LLM they have long songs, but specially Suite: Little Lucid Moments (side A) and Year Zero (a damage report) (side B) manage to be such a beautiful mixes of hope, happiness, melancholy, sadness, regret(?) and great playing. There is something that reminds me of early Swervedriver which is never a bad thing for me. I really really like it. It’s funny, sometimes it’s just enough if there’s a couple of great riffs, specially if they understand to end (or start) with one. They have more than just a couple, but it’s those couple that stick to my mind and make me want to listen this album over (and over) again.

Got Shinings double lp, mainly because it’s beautiful I have both albums on cd, and then finally Supersilent 8, on cd though.

Then I got Leviathan/Crebain Split. I got it because of Leviathan, but quickly I noticed that I actually like Crebain lp more. It’s a funny thing I’ve got quite a few metal albums like this that I get something as a “side dish” of another and then I find out that I like the “side dish” much more than the main course. Hmm.. there’s so much black metal, and metal, when will I have will to look more into that genre.

then of course I got Aerial‘s The Legion of Dynamic Dischord ep, which is good, but doesn’t yet beat Black Rain from the Bombing and as a side dish got Greg Haines‘ Slumber Tides which I have to listen more.

What else is new? Friends in my head…

I wait for the summer, but somehow after this quite light feeling I notice the heaviness trying to crawl in. Oh well. It’s been autumn here in finland for so long. I hope that the spring would come already.

Please do tell me

Okay I got some vinyl that I ordered on beginning of december(or end of october) I knew it would take time because couple of those, like The Ocean, was pre-order and I ws told it was going to be pressed on january or february. Nice to have them now.

Of course I haven’t yet listen to it all. So just a few words. Ion Dissonance’s minus the herd is ok but hasn’t really impressed me yet, it might still do it though. Textures’ Drawing circles I liked surprisingly lot, so let’s see what I think after more listenings. Bossk’s 1 seems to be clearly better than 2, I don’t think this will change but it might, like everything will. All of them are colored vinyl. Textures is only thing I haven’t really heard before at all. Cheap price and yellow vinyl helped my decision, I know I should not admit this.

The Ocean’s Precambrian is very nice, massive of course but that’s just nice. And I didn’t know it will be colored edition, so it was nice surprise to open it and find orange, red and grey vinyl inside. Good stuff, but right now I only remember second song from the red vinyl. It’s such a huge opus that I think I can spend some time really listening to it.

I also got a few other albums, like Moss’ Cthonic Rites and Twilight. but I haven’t really listened neither yet so I don’t say anything about them

About Aidan and cd-r’s Thanks to Ulla I got Candescence and Nagual ripped and thanks to Jussi I got Traumerei and Dance of Lonely Molecules ripped. So all the Aidan’s in my iPod. And even scrobbling seems to work now.

Let’s see I’m going for a quite a long trip, wiht my iPod, All the Aidan’s will be there with me. I just hope that when I get back home scrobbling wil work and provide the lists of those weeks.

All my friends are getting new macbooks. I want one too.
and a bigger iPod for teaching things.

I found small friends in my head. Bugger all. Now I want to get rid of them and hopefully have got already, rid.

So I should already pack, but before I have to do some more laundry

Relationships light serious reasonable or not are always…

I should get some more film (iso400) and take my camera with me…

I had a great week after sos. Performance was good and performing was nice. Mamushka was good also except that one drunken jerk you get in every place.

Now, in the middle again.

Good night and good luck to you all

Please do tell me

Probably a small note.

This far scrobbling of my iPod has (usually) worked fine. To those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about go here.

But last two times it just haven’t done it. It’s deeply annoying, how the hell I supposed to be updated what I have been listening then? How the hell other people should be updated what I’ve been listening (like they care)? My charts are all wrong, Aidan should be more up! A great tragedy of times, you see.

Talking of Aidan, I’ve had some new stuff from him and have listened some old stuff as well (new and old to me, this doesn’t relate to release dates).

This far Figures has been clearly my favourite. It’s the most easiest one, having beautiful theme that keeps repeating (more or less) through out the whole albums. It’s poppiest and easiest to grasp. Green and Cold has come as a good second. Well, I’m not sure is anything changed yet, but clearly Scalpel is in the same vein as Figures and G&C being quite easy, a lot of singing, beautiful guitar stuff etc. Then on more atmospheric stuff I really like the Sea swells a bit… already because of the name and The Taste of Summer on Your Skin for the same reason. To be hones I don’t remember anything from the taste of summer… not theme, not rhythms (like there would be in ambient) I just know it’s good, and it has to be good because of the name. I would never forgive if somebody would use such a great name for something horrible. But when listen the actual music you’ll notice that it is good, so no worries there. It’s not just my fixation on great titles, it is really good stuff.

Great great. I also got Traumerei which sounded really nice, but I noticed that my computer has troubles ripping cd-r’s since towards the end of the album there is this rhythmic noise that I’ve noticed with some cd-players when playing cd-r’s. Then I noticed the same on the “Dance of lonely molecules” so it seems I have to rip then again and through analog input (cd player -> stereos -> iMac. No I don’t have digital input on my iMac, too old for that). And as for Merrel|Baker|Jordan – Nagual it totally refused to even recognize the cd. It has done it before with two cd’s and it’s still very annoying. It seems like I’ll have to get a new computer soon. Anyway I got Nagual as .zip from a friend of mine, so no worries.
I also just got Baker‘s Suchness. Suchness is a series from Gears of Sand and Aidan is the first contributor for the serie. I haven’t had time to listen to it yet though.
Let’s back up a bit. Both Dance of Lonely Molecules and Traumerei sounds really nice. Traumerei seems to be more song oriented than Dance… which is more towards ambient mass. But these are just tastes after a few listening so maybe I should be sharper here, listen a bit more.

He’s a funny guy. Releases a lot of stuff with his own name, arc and Nadja and at least almost all of the solo material and all of the Nadja stuff is excellent. I haven’t heard arc at all, and to be hones I try to avoid it since I have enough work as it is trying to find and get all of his solo and Nadja releases and listen to them all properly.

Ok, more when I know more. All and all, most of it is great.

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So I got loads of usbm a while ago but I haven’t wrote much about it, I also got Deathspell Omega and Drudkh and I haven’t wrote about those either.
Then what there is to write about? I’ll try.

BM is one of the first subgenres of metal I’ve listened. I have Burzum’s self titled as a first press copy. I got all fisrt four darkthrones (eventhough soulside journey doesn’t really count). But Burzum I really followed only till det som engang var, and after Transilvanian Hunger I forgot darkthrone too. Actually those two are the only things I have labelled as BM in my collection, but of course later after DHG’s 666 international I got all of their previous releases which are pretty much labelled as BM too. Anyway I was wondering about the difference between Burzum and Darkthrone, and at least on those early records to me Burzum is much more bleak, sad, hopeless, melancholious, where Darkthrone has really great grooves on their albums (really, listen A Blaze in the northern sky) and has some of this jeering and defiant quality in. On the overall atmosphere and mood they are, to me, quite different.

Some how I connect this with Xasthur and Leviathan. I feel that Xasthur has a lot of this bleakness in, like Burzum. It’s really hard to pick up songs from Xasthur’s album because they seem to be this one big mass of hopelesness. Where as Leviathan has great songs and I pick easily my favourites. And also has some great grooves there too, like Darkthrone.

All of the above doesn’t mean that Leviathan would sound like Darkthrone, or Xasthur like Burzum though. They all sound different (and to someone who isn’t into metal they all probably sound the same) But there is something in the mood that to me connects them in this way.

Anyway I’m quite quite glad that I got the albums because there is something so touching in them. It’s a funny thing somehow, but yes, I’m touched. Both bands (Xasthur, Leviathan) are mainly just one person, multitalents lie in everywhere. Well you just have to handle guitar, bass and drums. But more importantly they both make good pieces of music.

I often notice that at least in my mind, songs work through pop esthetics in a way. There needs to be one really good riff and that works almost like chorus, then the rest of the song might have sections that I don’t really care for, (but which I’m not disliking either) and the song is great. Maybe this has come through trying to explain to some of my friends why something is good. And it’s easy when there’s a good riff and arrangement, but then why do I like those bits that seems to be just a bulk of noise with somebody yelling their eyes out. Hell, it’s hard to explain, but I just like it.

Deathspell Omega. To be honest I have mainly listened Kénôse, which is an ep and easiest to access, I guess. It’s great, the main thing why it’s so hooking is the endings of both sides. Side A is only one song which they end such a nice guitar pattern, fading everything else slowly away. Side O has two songs and again they finish the latter so brilliantly, with a riff that actually brings Unholy to my mind. Through out the album they have really nice moving bass lines and guitars sweeps. Great album. About two other albums I can so far only say that “fa -…” is better than “si…” which isn’t really surprise Fa being newest and Si being oldest (of these three)

About Drudkh, no not much, Autumn Aurora is a nice album but it hasn’t really yet worked on me.

Lately been quite lonely, always when I go somewhere where there is people I’m often alone, and if I’m not then when I come back home I feel even more lonely. So I easily stay home. But to meet people is to go out. And metting people is easy, right.

My grants application didn’t go through, so I made application for childcare. I haven’t heard anything from there either. It would be nice to do some days there, to get some money to also gather it up a bit for the summer.

Nadja relases are coming in on vinyl this year + Aidan is releasing loads of stuff all the time. Oh boy I’m in trouble.
I want more things. I want to get rid of my want of wanting things.
I need a princess. Way too much fairytales for me.
I have tried this buddisth/newage/hippie/manipulating the ether stuff, but so for, no goal.
You can change if you can, could anyone say it better?

But the festival time is soon. That’s nice. Let’s see how lonely I feel after that one. Although with so many people around it might be that the being alone after is a blessing.

I wish I could write about music well enough, that I would have the vocabularity to express what is so great about all the music I hear and listen to, but I can’t really reach it. Rare people actually can and even them don’t really reach it but they get close enough, so it’s interesting to read. I can’t even speak well enough about it. But I still should go to radio. Who else would play you USBM and Aidan Baker at the same show?

Please do tell me

Well definite sign of No life is that I’m updating all the time.
Nevertheless this is because I just put Kongh’s Counting Heartbeats to my vinyl player and I have to advertise a bit.
Heavy riffs, mid tempos, great riffs, good songs. Only thing that needs a bit used to is vocals, they are so one sided somehow. So even me who is used of growling and yelling had some troubles, but eventually they win me n their side. Great album.

And just now I was trying to trash somethings on my desktop. For some reason it didn’t want to throw the folder to the trash so I tried again and again until finally it disapperaed and I hit empty trash. It showed multiple itmes to throw away and suddenly I noticed that whole “mother” folder had gone into trash. I hit stop, but lost 7GB of information. Deeply annoyed, eventhough nothing of the lost info (on the first look) doesn’t seem to be vital. Still, this machine is getting so slow. Grrr.

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