Antti Tolvi: Liitävä saunatonttu

track from cassette release "Aina se soi" (c40, Ikuisuus, 2015)

KEIJO - Raaka blues helpottaa

Track nr.2 from forthcoming vinyl album Fragments Of High Sensitivity (Ikuisuus, 2016)

Grykë Pyje - Fragments Of High Sensitivity LP
"The title of the record combined with the organic paraphernalia may provoke the image of a „touch me not“, a sensitive plant. That's a bit misleading since Grykë Pyje, the duo of Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin), are not exactly fussy when it comes to bustle around with a lot of stuff - sometimes not exactly musical instruments. Together they built a soundworld as colorful and detailed as a field of flowers in the summer. On first sight one may be overwhelmed by the vast amount of impressions but the more time one takes the more detail can be experienced. So, enter the world of Grykë Pyje, get lost in a lovely and psychedelic pasture, but be careful: don't step on the daisies!" - Holger Adam

Gryke Pyje - Ocean Bay Treasures

Track Nr.5 from forthcoming vinyl album Fragments Of High Sensitivity (Ikuisuus, 2016)

Grykë Pyje - Fragments Of High Sensitivity LP
"The title of the record combined with the organic paraphernalia may provoke the image of a „touch me not“, a sensitive plant. That's a bit misleading since Grykë Pyje, the duo of Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin), are not exactly fussy when it comes to bustle around with a lot of stuff - sometimes not exactly musical instruments. Together they built a soundworld as colorful and detailed as a field of flowers in the summer. On first sight one may be overwhelmed by the vast amount of impressions but the more time one takes the more detail can be experienced. So, enter the world of Grykë Pyje, get lost in a lovely and psychedelic pasture, but be careful: don't step on the daisies!" - Holger Adam

Gryke Pyje - Ether Life

"Bersabea is a collaboration between Niko-Matti Ahti and Birgir Örn Jónsson. The music follows an open-ended inquiry. Improvisations, samples, voices, field recordings and other aural flotsam gets collaged into bite-size pop donuts, and vice versa. Niko-Matti and Birgir live in different countries in the northern hemisphere. The music is stitched together somewhere in between. Nothing is premeditated, nothing is arbitrary. Everything is playful, joy and terror abound. "The Newest Historic Site" is Bersabea's first full length."

Lite Bulbs from BERSABEA: "The Newest Historic Site" LP

Water Table from BERSABEA: "The Newest Historic Site" LP

Double cassette. Recorded (one take, no overdubs) in old 
church of Kemiö, Finland 23.9.2015. Edition of 100 copies.

buy here: http://ikuisuuslabel.blogspot.fi/
digital version: https://anttitolvi.bandcamp.com/album/church-organ

Antti Tolvi - Church Organ (double cassette * snippets)

Baldruin – Vergessene Träume (Ikuisuus, 2018)

"It’s said that German philosopher Immanuel Kant hardly ever left his home town. Yet he managed to pull off some of the most influential thinking to date. How did he manage to do that? Well, a daily routine based on reasoning interrupted by long walks did the trick and – voilà! – another “Critique” was done! Johannes Schebler’s body of work released under his Baldruin moniker may not exactly be as groundbreaking as the old geezer’s from Königsberg, but it’s fair to point out that his discipline is comparably versed and experienced when it comes to making his music. During the years past he hardly ever left town, avoided exhausting and time consuming nonsense such as touring and instead stayed inside preparing and releasing over a dozen albums since his first recordings back in 2009. He snuck out for a walk once in a while – especially to have a cheap lunch or dinner downtown – but other than that he kept himself busy watching Midnite Movies and messing around with a myriad of musical instruments. (And yes, an occasional painting was finished here and there, too!) In short: Johannes is quite a regular guy following a well-arranged, unhurried 24/7 routine. Given this almost boring day in, day out one might wonder how he manages to piece together his colorful, imaginative and meticulously manufactured sonic miniatures? Well, it’s obviously that kind of untroubled artistic existence that leads to a mindset to create a slightly unsettling music quite far from the artist’s own experience. It’s not real, it’s phantasy. It’s art, it’s entertainment – and it’s meant to be fun. Keep in mind: Listening to „Vergessene Träume“ („Forgotten Dreams“) is like visiting a fairground’s Tunnel of Horror or a field trip to an other-worldly theme park: Tracks like „Begegnung im Labyrinth” („Encounter in the Maze“) or „Das Mysterium der Kreidefelsen“ („The Enigma of the Chalk Cliffs“) hint at the playful and surreal character of the music. Music that is deeply informed by the colorful works of composers like Franco Battiato and the iconic and imaginative horror-movie soundtracks of Goblin („Susperia“) and the likes. So, don’t mistake Baldruin’s fanciful, vaudevillian approach with the omnipresent depressive and dystopian post-postmodern aesthetics. Baldruin’s far from being a bleak bloke and such is his music: It’s the brainchild of a rich, child-like imagination, a celebration of the comical ‘n creepy yet life-affirming forces in life. Enjoy the ride!"

IKU-052. Available in February 2018.

Baldruin - Vergessene Träume (Album Preview)

Edit from the first track of Bird People's Water Buffalo cassette (IKASUS-057). Edition of 75 copies.

Originally released by Sloow Tapes in 2013.

Buy & listen here: https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/water-buffalo

Bird People - Lord Yama (edit)/ WATER BUFFALO CS

Excerpt from the cassette album Whenever (IKASUS-060)
Edition of 75 copies.

https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/
http://ikuisuuslabel.blogspot.fi/

TASOS STAMOU & ALAN WILKINSON - Whenever *album excerpt*

IKASUS-059 
Released on cassette, October 2018 
Edition of 75 copies

Recorded at Kusis, spring and winter 2017 
Mastered by Heikki Järvi, 2018 
Sleeve pics by Elina Rantasuo 

Varropas is: Samuli Kytö & Juuso Paaso

order here: https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/rakuuna

Varropas - Rakuuna *album excerpt*

IKASUS-065 
Released on cassette, December 2018 
Edition of 60 copies.

http://ikuisuuslabel.blogspot.com/
https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/already-you-if-beyond-flying

Keijo - Already You If Beyond Flying CS *extract*

IKASUS-063 
Released on cassette, December 2018 
Edition of 75 copies. 

"Italy and Argentina blend together in slow motion and atonality: the collaboration of Italian music explorer Devid Ciampalini, and Argentinan free sonic experimentalist Pablo Picco have a voice and a path of their own: dense layers of analog synths erupt from every layer beneath the ground, field recordings of explosive apparatus, and smokey transmissions of percussion, strings and voices find their way to the cliff of human voices which appear to be broadcasted from inside a giant wolf’s nightmare."

http://ikuisuuslabel.blogspot.com/
https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/el-origen-del-pensamiento-m-gico

Bardo Todol & Devid Ciampalini CS *extract*

Cassette, released in March 2019. Edition of 100 copies.

"Natural Screenery" might sound unnatural to some, but this is the second Black Trumpets album. The songs are first and foremost based on a key moment shared playing together, but then this becomes the basis for stretching time in every way possible. Keijo, Alex, and Tuomas play whatever it takes to get the message across: hopefully saving 'pop' from the drooling jaws of populism; putting the boogie back in blues; and fiddling with the lesser-known electronic knobs of folk.

"Natural Screenery" -  näkymä voi jonkun mielestä olla luonnoton, mutta tämä on silti Mustien Trumpettien toinen kokoelma. Laulut ovat lähtöisin yhteisistä soittohetkistä, mutta ne venyttävät aikaa kaikin tavoin. Alex, Tuomas ja Keijo haluavat pelastaa pop-musiikin populismin kuolaavasta kidasta; he palauttavat boogien bluesiin ja sormeilevat folkin vähemmän tunnettuja sähkönsäätönappuloita.

Treedom

IKU-055 
Released on LP, 2019 
Edition of 250 copies. 

https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/grey-orders-distant-trails

Improvised soundtrack to a non-existent Western, recorded in the late ‘90s by James Kirk, Nathan Thompson and Tim Cornelius. 

"Deep South kitchen-sink explorers have been circling the drain in counterclockwise fashion for at least half my life and yet I am still reduced to shameless gobsmackery in the presence of this sterling new collection of historic treasures. Committed live-to-tape in the comfy climes of a living room/recording studio/temple affectionately known as 'Canongate' (a kinda homespun CBGBs of Dunedin's out-sound universe) Sandoz here bristle with the million-ideas-per-minute glory that hovers over their finest blossoms. Unrivalled in their inventiveness and the seemingly infinite permutations of 'shouldn't work but does' instrumentation, 'Grey Orders...' creaks and rattles like ringing spurs on the empty bar floor of some unseen antipodean western. Whether this makes more sense envisioning the cactus-pronged wastes of Arizona or the deserted main streets deep in the blistering badlands of central Otago is best left to the ear of the beholder, but one things for goddamnsure... there's gold in these here hills and I'm gettin' me a mule and a pick-axe." - Campbell Kneale

Great Orders, Distant Chalmers

Four Knocks for No

Trail of Ears

Long Arm

Released on vinyl LP
co-released with Hyster Tapes
IKU-056 / HYSTER27

Edition of 300 copies

Originally released on cassette by Corpus Hermeticum (Hermes003), 1994. 
All sounds by Alastair Galbraith and Bruce Russell.

A Handful of Dust - The Eightness of Adam Qadmon LP *extract*

Released on cassette, June 2019
IKASUS-067, edition of 60 copies

Muuton Koto is a collaboration work of Finnish musicians Veli-Matti Ikävalko (Kutomo, Tulasi) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton). The recordings of this album started already in 2010, but it took almost 10 years before it was fully finished (but there was also many years when "nothing" really happened). It was recorded & mixed partially in Chantepie (France), Brisbane (Australia), Kotka, Helsinki and Turku (Finland).

Muuton Koto's music is a colourful psychedelic folk; with a mix of sweet lullabies and stranger experimental noises. Several electric and acoustic instruments were used and modified. Melodies and abstraction.

Sleeve art "Balduin in Wonderland" made by Johannes Schebler.

Muuton Koto - Satumainen Avaruus *extract*

Released on cassette, June 2019
edition of 75 copies
IKASUS-068

players : Virginia Genta, David Vanzan, Seif Gaber
recorded July 2017 Handhabung, Santa Maria in Punta, Italy
artwork (sculpture) by Salah Abdel Kerim

Polonius - Taurus *extract*

IKU-057
Released on LP, February 2020
Edition of 200 copies

Tracklist:

1. Slapping Populists
2. A New Place In Hell (For The NRA)
3. Nazi Crusaders Fuck Off
4. No Xmas For Islamophobes

******

Bruce Russell and Noel Meek return with their second harsh noise collaboration. Their first, 'Classical Music'  (2018) was an all-electronics wrestling bout that simulated engine testing on a long-haul passenger jet. Their new album combines guitar, violin and electronics and was recorded in a wood workshop. You can hear the power tools, even though none were actually used. Extreme noise can sometimes be associated with offensive, racist or extreme-right views. The New Zealand duo have chosen to spotlight  that problematic tendency by recording their new record in Christchurch, scene of that country's worst right-wing terror atrocity, and calling it 'Say No to Hate'. It is an affirmation of life and collaborative solidarity, one of the signature characteristics of the fully international scene from which it springs. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug.

Noel Meek & Bruce Russell - Say No To Hate [preview]

IKU-060
Released on vinyl LP, January 2021
Numbered edition of 102 copies.

https://ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/split-6

ALTAAT: Palava palaava
M.B., J.K., N.K. / 2014-09-27 Helsinki

EUTER: Slowly Underwater / Magnetic Mammals
2018-2019

Mastered by Pentti Dassum.
Sleeve printed by Letterpress House, Turku
Layout & art by Sakari Männistö

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Altaat is a Finnish duo by Niko Karlsson & Miki Brunou, that has been active since 2011. On this album they are playing with Jari Koho, who is known from his own solo projects, and also from Vapaa, Keijo & The Free Players, Aan, Uton etc. Their track "Palava palaava" was recorded in 2014 - and now finally released on Altaat's first vinyl release. 20 minute long improvised track, with bowed strings & droney synths, melting in a cosmic mind.

Euter is a mysterious duo, and these two tracks are from their
recordings from 2019-2020. Experimental psychedelic noise - droning, crackling and rumbling from various sound sources. Strange encounters with a charm & carefully composed.

Euter 'slowly underwater' & 'magnetic mammals' *preview/edit

Altaat 'palava palaava' *preview/edit

A Finnish label releasing mostly experimental, psychedelic and ambient music on CD, CDR, CS and LP. Since 2005.

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