This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..
Monday, August 9, 2021
Superfjord- For the Moment Vol 1 (Fruits de Mer strange fish 24)
Superfjord is a very good Finnish band with some progressive and psychedelic tendencies. The band has a couple of full length and 7” releases out. This is the first in a series of live recordings to be released to show case a bit of improvisation that the band does live. The 3 tracks here were recorded at Helsinki´s G lively in Jan 2020. The CD starts off with Moment 1 which is quite jazzy with some nice piano playing as the rest of the band slowly follows the lead. A bit of delay guitar here and there and then synths make it a bit spacey while the drums, bass and piano make it jazzy and increase the energy a bit. There is a really nice stereo separation of the instruments that sounds great on my 5.1 system with the two guitar well split left and right. The track is really getting quite intense by 5 mins as the jam progresses. At 7mins Olavi comes in and plays a long sax solo which then becomes the focus til the end. Moment 2 starts with the synth taking the lead and then the sax as the beat and groove slowly build. It is a very dynamic track but then drops down to just sax and a few instruments in the middle for a bit before building back up again. Great track… Around 9 mins, after a short vocal section, they seem not sure where to go but they find a new direction that then fades out but is cleary the same jam that continues into the track Rainbow which is a quite happy guitar lead track to start. Nice melody and also some vocals about Rainbows. Great guitar on this one and more uptempo until the band spaces at 10mins or with a bit more sax before building up again after 13mins into something very hypnotic and CIRCLE inspired. This is the longest track over 19mins before it fades out. Also some great bass lines cut through the mix nicely at times. Can’t wait to hear the next volume…
The band on this release is:
Sampo Fagerlund: drums, percussion Mikko Kapanen: vocals, guitars Juho Ojala: vocals, keyboards, synthesizers Jussi Ristikaarto: vocals, guitars, electronics, percussion Teemu Soininen: bass Olavi Töyli: tenor saxophone, percussion
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