Aaolto is a new 6 piece Finnish
psychedelic folk rock band. All the info in the digipack CD is in Finnish but
the band plays a lot of diverse and interesting musical instruments from all
around the world and sings in Finnish. Uulu Records is a cultural collective
that is involved in a lot of really cool and different artistic things,
including releasing music. The CD features 8 songs in 50 mins. Ikaro starts
things off with a repetitive line played on a string instrument and a drone
slowly creeps in as the tension slowly builds up. The voice begins to creep in
and then the drums and other instruments as sort of American Indian like tribal
feeling takes hold. What a super cool track and it fades out the way it faded
in. Vapahtaja is next and has a clarinet that takes the lead to start this trip
to Morocco or a similar place. The female vocalist sings the lead on this track
in another magical trip, which has a really cool middle section with harp and
other cool instruments. Now it is time for Heijastumia and to go a bit further east
with a bit of sitar and some sort of other string instrument leading the way to
start before the male Finnish vocals come in and is traded with the female
voice. Wonderful psychedelic music. Kastepisaroita I and II are next and it
starts pretty mellow with just hand drums, clarinet and female vocal. The 2nd
part has a sort of funk riff played on a string instrument and then the sitar
comes in.Antero, who plays sitar, tambura and other instruments actually writes
nearly all the songs. He had gathered together a great group of people to
execute his vision. Sateentuoksuisia Unia features acoustic and pedal steel (or
slide guitar), digeridoo and floating vocals. I really like the guitars and
folk music vibe on this one. Metsätaloushöömei features some throat singing and
an uptempo rhythm and also features banjo! Kuum Tytär ends the album. It starts
very slowly with bits of almost all the instruments you have heard on the
record at times mixed into a very melting, floating, breathing psychedelic
flow. I was just melted away completely while listening to this… This is for
sure one of favourite record I have heard so far in 2014…
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