vapaa - se soi, soi! – ikuisuus – cass - 10$
Live recordings from :
18.11.2005 Rauhanasema, Helsinki, Finland
17.11.2005 Vastavirta, Tampere, Finland
10.04.2005 Telakka, Tampere, Finland
century plants - inversions – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga, melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh yeah, the guitars don't always sound like guitars!
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vlubä - the green lion great tapes vol. 4 – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
uton - suoniin, luihin, ytimiin (live) – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Live at Mental Alaska / Tampere, 25th september 2005. Ancient drones meets the ground. Performed by Uton & Kulkija, using synth, effects, electric guitar (bowed & without), recorder, tape recorder & radio-noises, violin, voices....
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matomeri – joys of summer – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
"First ever release by this new Tampere based unit. The halfhead-honcho of Ikuisuus, Timo, having real special time with his friends in an old slaughterhouse, jamming together & melting their brains away. Arctic freak-out improv psychedelia, droning dark-water diving, ancient stories from the age of dragons... adventures and heavy sound.
Hear this, the new wave of the finnish whatever!"
- ikuisuus
lead sister II –interplanetary craft – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
"Developing out of Austin Texas' best ever Carpenters cover group, Lead Sister, Lead Sister II explores the endless musical possibilities that exist beneath the inconspicuous exteriors of common household objects. Using such unorthodox instrumentation as the electric mailbox, weed eater violin, bicycle horn reed powered trumpet, bed springs, bobby pins and hacksaw blades, Lead Sister II are now poised to win the hearts of acid damaged basement dwellers the world over with this slab of their hypnotically repetitious and droning brand of psychedelia. Possible reference point for the unimaginative: Sun City Girls after listening to way too much Terry Riley, sprinkled on top with just a hint of tribal boogie-woogie and free jazz splatter." Sleeve arts by Jani Hirvonen (Uton)
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elektronavn – songs of impermanence – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
"More instrumental goodness dripping inwardly from the Danes, specifically Elektronavn who is Magnus Olsen Majmon, one of my personal favourite CDR-releasing, one-man band, geniuses of the drone, and a fellow who also has a convincing line in subtle electro-acoustic juxtapositions. While I’m still waiting to hear anything that delivers the depth and atmospheric richness of his 2004 CDR Rationale Mystique, this newie SongsofImpermanence (EMPTY SOUNDS REC ESR 008) promises a profound meditation on the great imponderables such as death, futility, loss and despair. Besides playing a ton and a half of reed instruments, strings, percussion and keyboards, Magnus also sings on this short half-hour record - a new side to his accomplishments with which I am yet to familiarise myself. Opening seconds alone were enough to persuade me he’s created a brace of gold-lined azure-enriched canvases in sound, fit to illuminate the darkest corners of these mighty abstractions of human misery that are his chosen themes. Hand-made cover has been produced using a raw, primitive version of the ‘decalcomania’ method, which in the hands of Max Ernst was used to create gigantic forests of post-war, angst-drenched doubt and lip-biting despair. In hands of Majmon, same technique produces little more than shapeless green blobs. No matter, because even if his painterly talents are slight, his musical gifts are beyond cavil."
- Ed Pinsent. The Sound Projector www june 2007
cones –ice skating elephants– ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Cones features Marcel Turkowsky and Ulf Schutte both members of Datashock and involved in other projects/labels like Aosuke, Tapetektoniks, UUHUU, Hui Tales Collection, Leo Mars and more. Their "Iceskating Elephants" shows four different cosmic soundtravels taken from their March Recording Sessions. When they are not parading into burlesque musicalia of beautyful underwater storiedrones read in muddy submarines floating to Kurosawa´s spiderwebcastle, they are visiting more concrete places like walking along howling swamps and forestlike playgrounds. And at the end we are still iceskating with Elephants on floating morellas to achieve a new freedom. Their Debut for Ikuisuus. In the mix: Contact Mics, Tapeloops and Goes, Memorytapes, Fieldrecordings and Electronics.
New sound from the land of kraut!
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family underground – salt of the sun – ikuisuus – cd - 14$
boris morgana – rotti frutti – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
I gave a kiss to a giant leech. It sucked me in. With a little effort, I wriggled to its opposite end and out into a different world, but I can't say how it differed from the one before. Likewise, all the atoms and other bits of matter that pass through us - that we swallow and transform - bear more or less fresh fruit, as they are reborn through us. Boris Morgana's Rotti Frutti is not just an oral delight, it's aimed at the whole organism. It percolates, hisses, comes and goes: gently as well. Furtively it infiltrates the brain through the ears and causes reactions. And maybe these inner oscillations move on to the hands, feet and other organs: maybe they carry the germ of a wholly new fruit. When it comes about, it's too late: everything has changed and one can't but accept it - allow the rotten fruit to issue forth.
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muuttuvat kasvot– s/t – ikuisuus– cdr - 10$
Muuttuvat Kasvot is another special project by J.Koho, who is better known by his groups Vapaa, Free Players (also Keijo & The Free Players), Aan (duo with J.Hirvonen / Uton), and Uton (mostly just live shows). His main solo project is called Kulkija, which has released few limited edition cdr's so far and he also appeared in Last Visible Dog's massive 6CD compilation Invisible Pyramid - The Elegy Box.
This Muuttuvat Kasvot cdr is originally released as a small print for Uton tour summer 2006 in Scotland, England, Netherlands, Belgium and France. It's a compilation of different projects by J.Koho, solo recordings, duo or even trio recordings from few years back to the day of first releasing date. 4 track recordings, forest folk drones & small rhythms, navigating from the tiny bushes of earth to sometimes even higher grounds of space atmospheres, still having the own unique sound. Really essential, and too good to be just forgotten as a limited edition. Taste this, dive inside the moment and see!"
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courtis - (the name of this drone is hidden in your DNA) - ikuisuus – cdr – 8$
One long hypnotic drone by ex-Reynols member Anla Courtis.
mutanea - sleepy sounds electric - ikuisuus – cdr – 6$
Mutantea is Anla Courtis (Reynols), J.Koho (Kulkija, Aan, Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan, Last Night On Earth) - recorded early 2006 in Helsinki, at the night time, in the middle of darkest winter, after the show in gallery, just before going to sleep. Three electric guitars, with differert effects and styles to play, together in this mass, which gave us this wave called 'Mutantea'. Includes also arts by Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes).
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quetzolcoatl - where are we going sister - ikuisuus – cdr – 8$
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last night on earth -s/t - ikuisuus – cdr - 8$ sold out
This is a first release by Last Night On Earth, the new "supergroup" of psychedelic free improvisation. Recorded at Castle Mountain High studio, Finland, 11/2006 by Ben Reynolds (Ashtray Navigations), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Aan), Arttu Partinen (Avarus, Anaksimandros, Hetero Skeleton), and Melanie Delaney (Ashtray Navigations, Sculptress). Weird sounds, drones & feedback space explosions. Thanks to Mary Jane and Mad Alice.
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uton - sacred hiss / ghost oracle - ikuisuus – cdr –8$ sold out
Recorded at spring 2005 in Tampere. Strange & dark atmospheric drones & dreams from the other side of mind. Specially for the late night processes - whatever that is, it's your way to use it.
Ask something, and the wind will tell you!
- ikuisuus
taurpis tula –cadillac sitting like a ton of lead – ikuisuus – lp - 16$ sold out
"Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead, the brand new album from the Taurpis Tula trio of David Keenan (Tight Meat Duo), Heather Leigh (Scorces/Dream Aktion Unit/Jandek) and Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo/Directing Hand/Jandek/Richard Youngs et al), represents the absolute apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-killing freedom. Further amplifying the malevolent narcosis of their debut LP on Eclipse, Cadillac… is a full blown rock record that full delivers on their vision of Yoko jamming with Red Transistor in a world where the conventional middle-brow ‘canon’ is pretty much upended in favour of primitive avant garde brut. There are grooves here that are as magnetic and future-visioned as The Magic Band circa “Big Eyed Beans From Venus” or the final seconds of amplifier meltdown on Mainliner’s Mellow Out while the playing is at an all-time ESP-channelled high, with the group generating glorious metal-inflected simultaneities without the slightest whiff of ‘dialogue’ or even listening with ears.This is a profound statement of the kind of freak-out freedoms inherent in the most primal blues/rock forms and a revitalising connection to the source of *it*, further building on the kind of form the group were packing during their monstrous jam at Thurston Moore’s Nightmare Before Christmas.
Features Heather Leigh on vocals, harmonica and pedal steel, David Keenan on electric guitar and Alex Neilson on drums. Packaged in individually silkscreened sleeves by disobedient Belgian artist Jelle Crama and featuring all-original artwork by Heather Leigh on the front, the insert and the labels, Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead comes in a limited edition of 440 copies." - Douglas Gully.
peter wright - desolation beauty violence- ikuisuus – cd – 10$ sold out
Born in New Zealand, currently residing in London England, Peter Wright has spent the past decade or more producing limited release recordings of drift-guitar space walks of mesmerising beauty. Desolation Beauty Violence is his third CD release proper, after Distant Bombs (Last Visible Dog, 2004), and Yellow Horizon (Pseudoarcana, 2005).
Recorded in London, spring 2003 along with Yellow Horizon, Desolation Beauty Violence is a very personal take on environment and landscape. Peter Wright uses a 12 string guitar and a handful of effects to illustrate an instrumental journey through the human detritus of city living juxtaposed with a wistful remembrance of pastural isolation, it's author torn between a desire to be part of a larger community and a need for space and solitude.
Far from being just another drone record, Desolation Beauty Violence is a dichotomy of music.
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a.m. – orla – ikuisuus – cd - 14$ sold out
One day in early 2004 I arrived home to find the biggest parcel I had ever received sitting on my doorstep, it was crudely wrapped and covered in stamps. I was amazed that anyone would POST something like this through the regular mail system.
I brought it inside and cut away the packaging. To my astonishment I found that it contained a large old 'Orla' chord organ and a letter from Marcel Bear (Empirical) saying that he had noted my recent enthusiasm for organ tones (see also With Throats As Fine As Needles and Sunken...).
He had found this one at a garage sale and thought that I might like it. My interest in organs had been at least in part inspired by my reading about Charlemagne Palestine and his concept of the "Golden Music". His idea of a stream of sound that may facilitate an ecstatic bliss of religious intensity has been hugely influential to me (in much the same way as Haino's 'sound of the universe'...).
I decided pretty much straight away that I would record an album using this organ as the predominant sound source (the only other sound sources are the field recordings of rain on the 1st track and scaffolding pipes on the 2nd).
As the recordings progressed from the straight ahead drone of the 1st track I stripped away more and more unnecessary components of the machine until on the last track I was bowing and plucking the spring pegs of the keys. One of my favourite sounds was that of the fan motor itself.-
Anthony Milton
ashtray navigations - four more raga moods - ikuisuus – cd – 12$ sold out
phil todd with help from
Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Mel Delaney, Chris Hladowski, Matt Cairns, Andy Jarvis and Pete Nolan of Magik Markers