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Artist:
TOMUTONTTU
Title:
Tomutonttu
Label:
FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FR 066CD
Fonal Recods re-releases this long sold-out debut by
Tomutonttu
, originally released in 2007 by Beta-lactam Ring and previously only available in a 400 copies-only 220 gram vinyl format. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called
Jan Anderzén
, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group
Kemialliset Ystävät
. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom-flow -- a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early
Die Tödliche Doris
and
Meredith Monk
, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientist's table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums. Tomutonttu has collaborated live with
Mike Bernstein
(
Double Leopards
,
Religious Knives
),
Joshua Burkett
,
Tara Burke
(
Fursaxa
),
The Skaters
,
Glenn Donaldson
(
Jewelled Antler
),
Sami Sänpäkkilä
(
Es
) and
Clay Ruby
(
Davenport
), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland.
Artist:
TOMUTONTTU
Title:
Tomutonto
Label:
FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FR 067CD
Fonal re-releases
Tomutonto
, a long sold-out gem by Finland's
Tomutonttu
(
Jan Anderzén
), previously released on LP in 2006 by the Ultra Eczema label. Anderzén is a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde group
Kemialliset Ystävät
, whose primitivism and tribal noise inclinations are reflected in these recordings. Echoed, chanting vocals, ethnic flutes, droning or rushing electronics, ritualistic mantras, low intonations, oscillations, ululations, sped-up tape squiggle, blistered bass tones and thudded percussion are just some of what you'll encounter here, creating a pastiche of sound of that will accompany you as you delve further and further into the neon cave.
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