Showing posts with label finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finland. Show all posts

Monday, 4 September 2023

JONSJOOEL — PIANO

⌾ LISTEN TO PIANO BY JONSJOEEL ⌾


Warped by dust and wrapped in nostalgia, 'Piano' by Berlin-based Finnish artist Jonsjoeel is not exactly a lullaby. The titular piano may be playing something resembling a lullaby, like something you'd hear plink and plonk its way out of an antique music box, but it is inextricably sad. And, like a music box melody, the mechanism slows and the playing gradually peters out.

Alongside the cold, almost harsh piano, strains of vocal leap out of the spirit-tinged keyboard, a muted skirling like the croon of one both in pain and self-soothing all at once. It crackles, it fuzzes, it crunches and crawls itself on the air, bearing the hallmarks of heartfelt lo-fi music with cold experimentalism crashing within. Ultimately 'Piano' is emotive and intellectual, soulful and mechanical, a tone poem that charts what it might feel like for a skeptic to see a ghost.


  • πŸ”” 'Piano' is taken from Jonsjooel's upcoming new album Lullabies for Younger Self, scheduled for release 22nd September via Kieku Records.

πŸ“ 
Jonsjooel Internet Presence ☟
facebookbandcampyoutubeinstagramspotify


Friday, 31 March 2023

MOSHIMOSHI — ANIME THEME

⌾ LISTEN TO ANIME THEME BY MOSHIMOSHI ⌾


A dynamic pendulum keeps time in 'Anime Theme', swinging between math rock-laden slabs of stabbing, syncopated guitar, bass and drums, and the portions where distorted guitars send out a wave after wave of sweeping fuzz. Gently jagged, no harshness in the fast-paced but digestible acrobatics of the melodies here, the track races along very much like a high-octane anime theme.

Finnish band Moshimoshi summon the sensibilities of early-2000s post-hardcore and the emotivity of emo, complete with punk-flavoured drums and throaty, screaming vocals. Warped by their own force, these screams blend with the guitar, becoming a part of the overdriven medley, providing an extra albeit shattered melody to the proceedings. It bounces, pops with precision, fizzes with energy.


  • πŸ”” 'Anime Theme' is taken from Moshimoshi's upcoming album GREEN, scheduled for release on 28th April.

πŸ“ 
Moshimoshi Internet Presence ☟
facebookbandcampspotifyinstagram


Wednesday, 21 February 2018

🐣 CLOZEE — HARMONY (AXEL THESLEFF REMIX)

As gentle and ostensibly ‘world music’ as this track appears to be, there is something darker within; it lulls you into a state of exotic pastoral bliss, with textures that swirl around like the spirit of a rainforest, percussive ticks and clicks amidst an organic drumbeat sailing through all the sights and sounds of typically beautiful Earth. But soon we are sucked into a swamp of mystery, clanging metallics in the thin air and mists crawling across the once green vista, the vision of cave mouths yawning craggy monstrous, the untameable force at the heart of everything.

These two universes inhabit the original ‘Harmony’ by globally minded French musicmaker CloZee - a sort of slow sashaying to some globular heartbeat mixed with a distorted synth drop - which is echoed in Axel Thesleff ’s treatment of the track, a minimal reworking that pits the languor of leafy slo-house against bare bubbling beats and stark synths, a contrast that retains a sense of exoticism but dilutes it out into something more generally beautiful, whilst creating tons of space in the existential thump of the drop, a wholly unnatural counterpart to the soft omnipresence of natural, forest-conjuring sounds.




πŸ“ 
CloZee Internet Presence ☟
facebooksoundcloudbandcampofficial sitetwitteryoutubesongkicktonedenAxel Thesleff Internet Presence ☟
facebooksoundcloudbandcampofficial sitetwitterspotifyinstagramsongkick


Monday, 19 January 2015

✿ RYCE ✿ – FLOWERS

One commenter on this track said "gotta watch out the young ones are murking everyone in the game right now." And to some extent that may well be true. Not necessarily that they're already better, or that they are actually actually murking everybody, but the sentiment still stands. Why is it that a younger person might be better? Well, firstly it's easier to learn things when you're younger. Your brain is more malleable, skills and things sink in more easily. Secondly, there's less bias! If you've only just started making music at 20-something, it might be the case that you're more biased towards one sound, or less inclined to experiment with other sounds.

If I had more time to explore the differences more thoroughly with actual evidence, etc. then obviously I would sound less like I am totally going on conjecture and "what I think" i.e. "my opinion". But I digress.

I speak of youth because the producer of this track is, apparently, 14-years-old. Really? If so, that's amazing, big talent. But it's not the reason I'm writing about the track. I'm writing about it because I heard it and liked it! :)

Created by Finnish producer ryce – or for brevity's sake let's say just plain ryce (no pun intended) – the track is called 'f l o w e r s' or 'flowers' and it's a slow melding of luscious sounds twisting together to a gloriously textured beat twinkling with metallic and glassy chimes of percussion. It's underpinned with supple columns of bass, a sample, with pitch-shifted vocals and slow guitar twangs, from I-don't-know-where winding its way gently across the track. It tastes like vaporwave with hints of hip hop, but it feels more unique than that. It feels like liquid treasure, a bypassing of ontological worries to simply float through life with bliss free-flowing all around you. If only〜

The real beauty of being this young and this creative and talented, however, is anticipating how these skills and this vision will evolve over time. Here's hoping for the literal best song ever from ryce one day in the future.




☟ ✿ ryce ✿ Social Media Presence ☟
SoundCloudBandcampTwitterYouTube