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Indie/Disco

DAS BOOT!!

DIGITAL + TAPE: 
kemiallisetystavat.bandcamp.com/album/sii…i-empii-2
VINYL:
ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/siipi-empii

Kemialliset Ystävät is a long running musical collective headed by Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén. The group's rotating contributors include virtuosic musicians, sound artists, mad electronic music professors, field recorders, singers, amateurs and professionals. Leaving Records presents the project's latest LP, entitled Siipi Empii (loosely translated from Finnish to A Wing Hesitates.) Anderzén explains, "The English translation unfortunately loses all the music and rhyme of the Finnish title but the meaning's still there, kind of. The title is aiming to describe the movements of a butterfly and the weight/heat of the idea that every single flap of the wing can cause a storm/revolution." He has described the group's sound as sometimes "like an orchestra flying around in a tornado." These themes embody Siipi Empii, a wildly weird dose of electronic folk music crafted through sheer force of nature, an abstract organism guided gently by Anderzén's deft artistic touch.

A collaborative spirit can be heard throughout each of the album's twelve imaginative tracks. According to Anderzén, "The music stays alive only because of the input from my collaborators … The method produces half random, half directed sound events where independent elements intertwine into unpredictable music." As part of the process, he sends out "musical skeletons" to his collaborators. They then react and contribute their own sounds and ideas. One batch of skeletons came with a motivational letter including a quote from Johan Huizinga, below:

'We moderns have lost the sense for ritual and sacred play. Our civilization is worn with age and too sophisticated. But nothing helps us to regain that sense so much as musical sensibility. In feeling music we feel ritual. In the enjoyment of music, whether it is meant to express religious ideas or not, the perception of the beautiful and the sensation of holiness merge, and the distinction between play and seriousness is whelmed in that fusion.'

Siipi Empii's compelling arrangements do contain a playful edge that softens its more experimental tendencies. Unpredicability is the order of the day, as dogs bark, springs boing, and electronic woodwind sections deconstruct themselves over beds of contemplative marimbas. Disembodied voices recite touching poetry, just more instruments playing freely in the endlessly mutating stream of sound. Every element feels perfectly weighed and expertly arranged, as if by gravity itself. Anderzén says: "Battles with gravity are a recurring theme in my work, something to do with changing perceptions of normal." Siipi Empii is a joyous and playful paradox, beckoning you to embrace its loopy strain of intensely original expression.

Leaving Records and Kemialliset Ystävät make sense together. Both entities have a passion for blurring the lines of genre and exploring creative new frontiers. In Anderzén's words, "The work needs to be free from predetermined themes or ambitions." Experimentation is the ideal, and the process is sacred. They strive to find a language to convey something that can't be expressed with words. You may hear and feel something you've never heard or felt before, and that is the aim. Perhaps Anderzén best encapsulates the album in his translation of the first track's title: "Äimä is an ancient word for a large needle with a big round hole. In an old Finnish saying äimä describes a reaction where one's jaw drops open in awe / confusion. Tähkä is an ear in the botanical meaning. So we are talking about some sort of potential for astonishment."

Siipi Empii is also be available on limited edition vinyl from the Finnish label Ikuisuus.

BUY ALBUM

Kemialliset Ystävät - SIIPI EMPII

The opening track from the upcoming album "Alas rattoisaa virtaa" (Dekorder 075).

Pre-order here: http://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/alas-rattoisaa-virtaa 


Alempana kuin enkelit

Comeme 009
Daniel Maloso - Hijos de Jose EP
All tracks by Daniel Maloso
Recorded between Mty, Mex and Bcn
Released 2011

Get the 12" at: http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/hijos_de_jose

3 discoteca cavernicola

from the album
Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa
(Dekorder 075)

Release date: May 12, 2014

Available on LP and download:
https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/alas-rattoisaa-virtaa

Kemialliset Ystävät "Naderbux & Sundergrund" (Dekorder 075)

http://www.mrbongo.com/product/beyond-the-rains-cd-1134 	

The album is an essential blend of soul, jazz, funk and Latin music united by a positive spirit. Russ Dewbury is the sole power behind the Jazz Rooms, Britain's longest running club session, attracting aficionados from the farthest corners of the earth with its unique blend of deep jazz, cosmic soul and Afro-Latin rhythms mixed together with the current musical mores. He is also the man responsible for Brighton's world famous Jazz Bops. As a DJ, Dewbury is also one of Britain's leading antiquarians of black music. His compilations of forgotten treasures, carefully dusted down and lovingly restored, have become must-own material for music lovers everywhere. He has worked with such jazz luminaries as Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders and folk-jazz legend Terry Callier, whom Dewbury managed.

Mitchell & Dewbury brought together an international line up for the album: Terry Callier, Navasha Daya and James Collins of Baltimore soul-jazz outfit Fertile Ground, cult Philadelphian-born jazz flutist Lawrence Jones, vocalists Billie Godfrey and Lizzie Rendall, bass player Jeff 'The Funk' Walker, pianist Mark Edwards, Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo (one-time student of Fela Kuti), Brazil’s Drumagick and Germany’s Hypnosis and Marc Frank. 
Beyond The Rains is thus one of those rare albums that succeeds in bringing clarity and relevance out of a melting pot of diversity – united and always driven by an uplifting theme and an optimistic view. Above all, Beyond The Rains evokes memories of the way albums used to be lovingly written and constructed and how they should be listened to from start to finish – the spirit of an old album, that of a musical journey with a beginning, a middle and an end. From when the moment the album starts you know this is a release you can't cherry pick from. The often mourned art of album making is not lost – it is alive and well, and living in Brighton.


The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - My Words

LIES-BLK 08
Lipelis-Weirdshit. Xu Paelk w.Simple Symmetry
to be released August 2015

Lipelis-Weirdshit Xu Paelk w. simple symmetry (LIES-BLK 08)

TTT SHOP

Aaron Dilloway – Psychic Driving Tapes (excerpt)

HVN036
Benedikt Frey - Out Of Here (Remixes)
Get it here: http://bit.ly/2bkOiKv


HVN036 Out of Here Remixes (12" versions) (320 mp3 mstrd promo)

Benedikt Frey - Out Of Here (Roman Flügel's Cosmic Disco Drama Rework)

COP DAT!!!

HATIN ON ME?!

compiled by toshiya kawasaki
mastering by kuniyuki
cover photo by mika kitamura

studio mule 1
2lp&cd(no digital)
distributed by kompakt

8 shohjo-tai & red bus st project/electric city

Kemialliset Ystävät on this track:

Jan Anderzén
Francesco Cavaliere
Petra Poutanen
Antti Tolvi

Ramses Kutoo

"Hose Head" 7" By Rubber Bottom On RB Records - USA, 1983 - SOLD

From 'Maraschino Mic Drop' by Honnda. 
Orange Milk Records, April 6, 2018. 
Digital and cassette tape.

Maraschino Zap

DIGITAL + TAPE: 
https://kemiallisetystavat.bandcamp.com/album/siipi-empii-2
VINYL:
ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/album/siipi-empii  

Kemialliset Ystävät is a long running musical collective headed by Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén. The group's rotating contributors include virtuosic musicians, sound artists, mad electronic music professors, field recorders, singers, amateurs and professionals. Leaving Records presents the project's latest LP, entitled Siipi Empii (loosely translated from Finnish to A Wing Hesitates.) Anderzén explains, "The English translation unfortunately loses all the music and rhyme of the Finnish title but the meaning's still there, kind of. The title is aiming to describe the movements of a butterfly and the weight/heat of the idea that every single flap of the wing can cause a storm/revolution." He has described the group's sound as sometimes "like an orchestra flying around in a tornado." These themes embody Siipi Empii, a wildly weird dose of electronic folk music crafted through sheer force of nature, an abstract organism guided gently by Anderzén's deft artistic touch. 

A collaborative spirit can be heard throughout each of the album's twelve imaginative tracks. According to Anderzén, "The music stays alive only because of the input from my collaborators … The method produces half random, half directed sound events where independent elements intertwine into unpredictable music." As part of the process, he sends out "musical skeletons" to his collaborators. They then react and contribute their own sounds and ideas. One batch of skeletons came with a motivational letter including a quote from Johan Huizinga, below: 

'We moderns have lost the sense for ritual and sacred play. Our civilization is worn with age and too sophisticated. But nothing helps us to regain that sense so much as musical sensibility. In feeling music we feel ritual. In the enjoyment of music, whether it is meant to express religious ideas or not, the perception of the beautiful and the sensation of holiness merge, and the distinction between play and seriousness is whelmed in that fusion.' 

Siipi Empii's compelling arrangements do contain a playful edge that softens its more experimental tendencies. Unpredicability is the order of the day, as dogs bark, springs boing, and electronic woodwind sections deconstruct themselves over beds of contemplative marimbas. Disembodied voices recite touching poetry, just more instruments playing freely in the endlessly mutating stream of sound. Every element feels perfectly weighed and expertly arranged, as if by gravity itself. Anderzén says: "Battles with gravity are a recurring theme in my work, something to do with changing perceptions of normal." Siipi Empii is a joyous and playful paradox, beckoning you to embrace its loopy strain of intensely original expression. 

Leaving Records and Kemialliset Ystävät make sense together. Both entities have a passion for blurring the lines of genre and exploring creative new frontiers. In Anderzén's words, "The work needs to be free from predetermined themes or ambitions." Experimentation is the ideal, and the process is sacred. They strive to find a language to convey something that can't be expressed with words. You may hear and feel something you've never heard or felt before, and that is the aim. Perhaps Anderzén best encapsulates the album in his translation of the first track's title: "Äimä is an ancient word for a large needle with a big round hole. In an old Finnish saying äimä describes a reaction where one's jaw drops open in awe / confusion. Tähkä is an ear in the botanical meaning. So we are talking about some sort of potential for astonishment." 

Siipi Empii is also be available on limited edition vinyl from the Finnish label Ikuisuus.

NEW ALBUM

Kemialliset Ystävät - Kuriton Painovoima

It's been a long time but we back with a new song entitled "FIRST BAPTIST" Produced By Alexander Spit.

Pac Div "First Baptist" (Produced By Alexander Spit)

Out now on DEAD LINK: deadlink.fanlink.to/aoyoru-24

Buy on vinyl

Moonlite

Kemialliset Ystävät is a Finnish collective setting into motion soundscapes with a wildy inventive voice. Their creative force is gently melded by conceptual music guide Jan Anderzén, who sparks a sense of energy balanced with freedom allowing for expansion. Siipi Empii, the newest album from Kemialliset Ystävät, out April 6th on Leaving Records, is at once a rhythmic wonder and a silvery noodle of mysterious essence slithering into the highest heavens. It's reactionary in all the right ways. “Pujottelua” was premiered on Open End, Frosty’s weekly, otherworldly Red Bull Radio show. 

@tomutonttu
@leavingrecords
@freeform-frosty
http://redbullradio.com/shows/open-end-frosty
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

SIIPI EMPII

Kemialliset Ystävät - Pujottelua [Open End Premiere]

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