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Maniacs Dream
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This wild group is a distant relative of Avarus. Maniacs Dream think they are playing punk rock but all they can catch on tape is dizzying, swirling and tumbling lunacy. They don't know how some of the sounds ended up on tape, the sounds have just somehow emerged from somewhere. But still there is a logic deep in all this. Relentless energy and a constant flow of ideas, some of them good, some of them something else. And these are hi-fi 4-track recordings. This is the fresh and exciting sound of the 21st century!
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”These recordings are celebrations of all things earthly, cosmic and strange. Members of the Turku Goat Milking Union, Avarus, make merry with their friends and accidentally create more joyous forest punk. Clanking, chiming strings, ringing tangle, buzzing electric fzzzzz, someone kicks over the drumkit, the casio explodes, everyonesmiles, big stoned grins all around. AND it’s only on cassette; this warms my heart. Until the next Avarus LP, dream this dream.”
- Glenn Donaldson / Broken Face #18
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"Maniacs Dream is the more electric, deranged cousin of groups like Avarus and The Anaksimandros, the one they want to keep locked in the attic with only cans of chicken soup and a checkers board with pieces missing. The quartet records improvisations to four-track and then overdubs additional textures. Packed with ominous electric keyboards, dense pockets of percussion, swirling feedback and biting guitar riffs, this detailed cacophony blazes a trail that connects rock, free jazz and noise. The logic of Maniacs Dream is that of the mentally disturbed outsider, rearranging the world’s input into unheard of combinations. But the clear recording and restrained playing envelops the listener in a surreal soundscape that hits like audio shock treatment."
- Matthew Wuethrich, All About Jazz