Artist : Ous Mal
Title : Viime Talvi
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 11/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 06
Label : Under The Spire
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 34:07 min
Size : 45,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Kanas 04:57
02.Meidaen Piha 04:00
03.Taehdet 05:14
04.Tumma 07:39
05.Oksat 05:46
06.Ukkonen 06:31
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34:07 min
Even if it wasn't for the song titles
you'd still be able to tell this record
was Finnish. Like all that country's
finest musical exports, be they Hannu or
Paavoharju, Ous Mal's recordings carry a
certain grainy lo-fi charm, sounding
like some gnarled old 78 you might find
in an enchanted attic. Vinyl crackle,
weird old field recordings and weathered
instrumental sequences all come together
to make beautiful collages on tracks
like 'Meidôn Piha', which comes laced
with faded string samples, glockenspiel
melodies, wispy voices and the tolling
of bells from a distant church. The
glistening ambience of 'Tôhdet' persists
with the magic-realist sense of
wonderment, sounding a bit like a
haunted version of The Avalanches as it
makes way for the equally ethereal
strains of 'Tumma'. By the time you
arrive at closing track 'Ukkonen' (whose
curious sonic profile seems to shift
from a spectral sea chantey into a
demonic ice cream van) you'll be totally
hooked on this record's creaky, tuneful
and endearingly decrepit constitution.
Highly enjoyable Scandinavian lo-fi
melodicism from the ascendant Under The
Spire imprint, limited to a mere 100
copies.
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