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Avarus: Horuksen keskimmäisen silmän mysteerikoulu
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1. Keskimmäisestä silmästä
2. Mars on paljastanut salaisuutensa
3. Feeniks-lintu välitti muista enemmän
4. Filippiinien henkikirurgit
5. Eno muista mua
6. Taivaalla tapahtuu
7. Ballerina eksyi, mutta valaistui ennen kuolemaansa aavikolla
8. Kihara silmäpisara
9. Miksi huusit, Kimmo
10. Nännipihan lapset
11. Salaperäinen Imjärvi
12. Yö tuli ja beduiini
AVARUS LINE-UP:
Roope Eronen
Lars Mattila
Markus Mäki
Tero Niskanen
Arttu Partinen
Kevin Regan
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"From the first second I laid my eyes on the simple but effective home-made packaging for this all too limited disc, I just knew it was destined to be right up my alley. The six-numbered collective Avarus emerge as one of the more stumbling and stoned outfits from the fertile Finland free form community. What we get is improvised tribal free-folk that drones and hums its way in and out of psychedelic soundscapes, sometimes stumbling all the way to powerful jams and grooves. The spiritual "Mars On Paljastanut Salaisuutensa" builds an intricately patterned composition from organ, junkyard percussion and scraped strings while "Feeniks-Lintu Välitti Muista Enemmän" adds wheezing reeds to the mix resulting in fluent jazzish exotica that's as beautiful as it is strange and powerful. In "Ballerina Eksyi Mutta..." Avarus presents an otherworldly web of whistles, reeds and acoustic guitar that resembles Tower Recordings at their most damaged. "Kihara Silmäpisara" is possibly the best thing on the record with its strong Middle Eastern flavor. Imagine the folkiest side of No Neck blues Band's drugged out sound world and you're in the right place. This record is equal parts of the band mentioned above, Sun City Girls at theit most mellow and new Zealand free music, and if you've been reading this mag on regular basis you should know what that means. Horuksen Keskimmäisen Silmän Mysteerikoulu is probably destined to remain one of those obscure records people will be talking about but no will ever hear. If there is any justice in the world this record will be reissued on a bigger underground label, but before that happens it's up to people like you and me to make it go out of print. Contact the Lal Lal Lal imprint at roopealpertti@hotmail.com."
Mats Gustafsson / Broken Face
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"Will our love affair with Finland never end?!?! I sure hope not. And there doesn't seem to be any reason to worry. Certainly not with what seems to be more and more undiscovered AMAZING music cropping up all the time. First we discovered Circle and Mieskuoro Huutajaat and Keuhkot and Aavikko and the baffling and completely awesome Bad Vugum label. Then we learned of the dreamy clattery folk of Kemialliset Ystavat and their hippy percussion jam side project Anaksimandros. And let's not forget drone-doom lords Skepticism and Rapture and Tiermes. And now we have discovered Avarus and the adventurous Lal Lal Lal label. Avarus and Kemiallisett and Anaksimandros all share at least one member and definitely share an aesthetic, combining folk and Krautrock and free jazz and modern noise ala the Dead C into a totally mesmerising modern noise/folk. Avarus, while less percussive/clattery than Anaksimandros, is also less folk than Kemialliset, situating them in a unique musical position, unfurling lengthy meandering almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, motorik and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Wander into their dark forest and join the tribe."
Aquarius Records
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"This six piece band from Tampere, Finland make a glorious noise. With detuned guitars, off kilter flutes, primitive percussion, bent clarinet, no vocals but plenty of strange atmosphere. Not all that far away from the thick sonic haze that the Tower Recordings exude; which means there's a folkish starting point that rapidly gets lost in a smoky maze of improvisatory meandering. Chinese song fragments echo down long corridors past soft awkward machines that bounce on squeaking springs in the dusty corners of hidden attic rooms."
George Parsons / Dream Magazine #3