Browse by Label: FONAL (FINLAND)

Artist:	KIILA
Title:	Heartcore
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 015CD

Fonal is the leading label of new outsider music from Finland and here are some of their most significant releases to date. The first full-length by the Finnish duo Kiila, released in 2001. Packed in a beautiful 6-page digipack, it contains 9 tracks and a total of 39 minutes of music. Kiila makes music with everything that's around, and a massive array of instruments have been used here: clockwork, bowed saw, bowed guitars and bass guitars, drums, percussion, computers... you name it. The album is full of heart and has received many warm words from all over the world. As Niko-Matti Ahti explains in the liner notes, "Heartcore has preserved a lot of sustained work and spontaneous expression. We have spent time and energy on listening to music, talking and thinking about it. We have listened to these songs as to our favorite records: critically, carefully and with devotion, often and for long periods of time, in many situations and states of mind. The main difference between these processes -- listening to our favorite records and listening to Heartcore -- has been that we have changed the sounds on Heartcore whenever necessary. We have omitted sounds, played new ones or modified existing ones. We have thought about arrangements, searched for sounds and altered structures. The whole time, however, making music has been subordinate to listening to it." Last copies of this edition, licensed to the Say Hey label in the U.S.

Artist:	ES
Title:	A Love Cycle
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 017CD

2006 repress; new cover artwork and a bonus tracked added ("Suuri Hoyhen" from a K-RAA-K label sampler). The second album from Es aka Sami Sänpäkkilä. On this album, the main source of sound is three turntables bought from flea markets for $10.00 a piece. Those, and a few effects are the only sound sources that have been used. The atmosphere maintains its course of melancholy through these romantic, and at times heartbreaking sound collages. The adjacent loops that you hear begin to create new dimensions and layers of sound. And when you listen to the songs, you can almost hear those forgotten melodies that you have always searched for in your heart. Recognizable (and acknowledged) exemplariness can be heard when thinking of such artists as the loop 'n' scratch artist Philip Jeck and Terry Riley.

Artist:	KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT
Title:	Kellari Juniversumi
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 021CD

Reissue of this album, originally released in 2002. Kellari Juniversumi has been hailed as a masterpiece and has been out-of-print for a long time. Reprint includes a new 24-page booklet. Many are the rumors that revolve round the Tamperean tribe called Kemialliset Ystävät ("Chemical Friends"), regarding, for instance, the recipe for their brand of magic potion and their ethnic background. Contradicting common beliefs, this group does not consist of elves, gnomes or some lesser-known folk of the forest, but is mainly the product of one human risen from the rotten ditch of Nekala (a Tampere suburb). With his vast set of allies, he has by the power of his spirit carved a whole multitude of caves into the cellar of an otherwise unsuspect-looking house. From that "Cellar Yuniversum" (a rough translation of the disc's name) originates this record, which is actually their first, as its many predecessors have been either halves of a long player, or virtually unobtainable partial re-releases. "Now, at last, as we venture deeper into the cellar than ever before, we see the aforementioned elves and gnomes in their festivities, as the urbanization process has cut down the Tampere backwoods and has thus forced them to flee into the caves of Kemialliset Ystävät, who naturally are on good terms with all tiny earthlings with pointed ears." --Ralf Normaali, a lowlife from the capital area.

Artist:	ES
Title:	Kaikkeuden kauneus ja käsittämättömyys
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 028CD

This second print includes a bonus song. Kaikkeuden kauneus ja käsittämättömyys ("The Beauty and Inconceivability of Everythingness") is the third solo album by Sami Sänpäkkilä, released in 2004. Features members of Kemialliset Ystavat and Avarus. As the artist describes, "There are many sources of sound that can be interpreted as music concrete: pulsars and noise culled from my SETI-at-home processes, hammering in the apartment downstairs, C-vitamins wheeze and scissors cutting my hair. I also used many conventional instruments on this album. One of the most important was a piano which is heard on most of the songs. I do not have a piano, so I had to go to my friend's to record all the piano parts." Guest collaboration on this album includes Ville Leinonen, who wrote lyrics to the title track and who sings. The songs on this album explore the same themes heard on the previous two Es records; melancholy, pathos and hope. The overall mood is darker, gloomier and more ominous. The album is self-reflective -- it is about trying to create a better place to live in instead of explicitly judging or criticizing the world. This album is dedicated to the sad, the depressed, the insomniacs, the strayed, the fearful and the lonely.

Artist:	KIILA
Title:	Silmät Sulkaset
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 030CD

Originally released in 2004 on (K-RAA-K)³. On the second full-length release by Kiila, the band gently conjures up mildly otherworldly tunes with a peaceful air and feathered eyes. What was once free-pop played by two is now free-folk played by seven. The language of the songs has reverted back to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully-arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article.

Artist:	ISLAJA
Title:	Meritie
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 032CD

This is Islaja's debut, originally released in 2004. Islaja might well be a forgotten islet somewhere or a name of a courageous sword-swinging heroine in a forgotten fable. For certain, Islaja is a young woman that has sang and played an album full of heart-rending, intimate music. On Meritie, Islaja whispers in a fever and sings an Oriental monkey. At times, it is impossible to tell where the sounds are coming from. The variety of instruments is vast, but all have their space. Islaja has exceptional sense of harmony that alone makes the album a magical listening experience. The voice of Islaja sounds bravely over the screaming, crazed seagulls. It is stunningly honest. This is a great victory in these times of sadness.

Artist:	KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT
Title:	Alkuhärkä
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 033CD

Their second full-length album on the Fonal label, originally release in 2004. "After recovering from a long illness, I started searching through the shores and woods. I finally managed to locate Mr. Anderzén in the middle of an Arctic desert. He sat there cross-legged, eyes closed, calm as if on top of a mountain or in the bottom of the sea. No trees nor any other objects apart from ourselves interrupted the plain white landscape. Sun dragged itself slowly over the horizon. The air was still. 'My retreat will soon be over.' His husky voice seemed to emerge from the field of snow itself. I didn't see his lips moving. As I asked about the last nine months he had been away, he mumbled something about contemplation. 'Remember what Cocteau wrote in Opium about revealing the essence of plants? -- I have gained sights of that different kind of speed of vegetation and I have heard the screams of plants he talked about.' After six long days of silence spent mostly eating reindeer meat, Mr. A spoke again: 'I had the strangest of dreams. There was no space, no people, no traces of action, just this plasmoid machine out of which erupted sounds. And then, as I was receiving those aural secretions of an ultra-physical automaton from the seventh uppermost world, I woke up due to a butterfly itching in my ear. There I was, all covered with sweat, heart beating furiously, yet the ear was empty. It took a long time to be able to sleep after that night.' Heed my words, dear friends; that butterfly preserved in the ears of ours which weren't there, is Alkuhärkä." --Ralf Normaali

Artist:	ISLAJA
Title:	Palaa Aurinkoon
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 036CD

This is the second full-length by Islaja, originally released in 2005. Palaa Aurinkoon was born in two different places that have been sewn together with a binding of words within a rich sound world. Here and there, Islaja's friends have lent their voices to this world. Loose guitar paths, long strokes of wind instruments, glasses and toys that clink, rattle and tinkle, rhythms, keyboards and Islaja's wonderful, many-faceted voice coo in a miraculous net. The album is a spontaneous texture of muscle, cartilage and liquid, everything organized in such a surprising way, that one can't believe right away that it's a human being, but soon enough, it becomes clear that it's a most ingenious creature. It evolves by itself. It tells us how everything metamorphoses, it relies on itself and infuses belief into the listener that one can change the world.

Artist:	PAAVOHARJU
Title:	Yhä Hämärää
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 037CD

This is the first full-length release by Paavoharju, originally released in 2005. Recorded during 2001-2005, Yhä Hämärää reflects inner landscapes. Concrete places inform and partially create those inner views. Some highly inspiring places: Durde, densis, home, Pöllänlahti, toilet, graveyard, sewers, disco, the beach at Redpoint, rooftops at night, an alcoholic's home, churches, Uukuniemi, foggy fields, sauna, bed. As the band themselves proclaim: "Everything the light touches (and doesn't touch) is our home."

Artist:	PAAVOHARJU
Title:	Yhä hämärää
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	FR 037LP

LP version. This is the debut full-length release from Finland's Paavoharju. CD originally released in 2005. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. The sound is something between Bollywood music, church hymns, beautiful pop tunes and ambient esoteric noises. The lyrics are very spiritual in sound and text. Paavoharju sing of branches touching the surface of the water and walking down a black street to an old inn. Waves of static and echo mingle with acoustic guitar blistered by electronic hum, haunting female vocals are backed by broken piano interludes, weirdo electronic harpsichords mingle with chiming organ in a rococo, medieval pastiche set as devout forest singalong. Probably one of the most eclectic releases of 2005, and a true testament to the burgeoning Finnish scene. Fonal Records hosts a fierce new force and sound into the world.

Artist:	KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT
Title:	Lumottu Karkkipurkki (Vapaa Systeemi)
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 038CD

Originally Lumottu Karkkipurkki was released on cassette on the Huutomerkki label, and re-released on double 8" lathe-cut on the Celebrate Psi Phenomenom label. Now finally available on CD, remastered and remixed, originally released by Fonal in 2005. Notes from Ralf Normaali: "Lumottu Karkkipurkki ("the enchanted candy jar") is a musical work with two concepts: a song cycle based on an obscure Finnish children's book of the same name. The plot is simple; a boy buys a candy jar from an old, witchy shopkeepress. Every time the boy takes a colorful drop, his surroundings change unexpectedly and completely. He meets strange beings in the nearby forest. The atmosphere is exciting and slightly scary. Ville eats all the drops and craves more, but the woman with the shiny green ring is gone and so are the candies. The other concept, 'Vapaa Systeemi' ('free system') has something to do with plucking stringed instruments." Lumottu Karkkipurkki is for the creepy, late hours of the night.

Artist:	SHOGUN KUNITOKI
Title:	Tasankokaiku
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 041CD

Originally released in 2005. This is the debut release by Shogun Kunitoki, a quartet based in Helsinki, Finland. They have been exploring the frequency spectrum since 1998, patiently perfecting their own idiom, a music of a past-future that draws from the myriad synthetic sounds of the 20th century. Elements borrowed from '50s electronic pioneers, '60s psychedelia and minimalism, '70s experimentalism and '90s revivalism, come together in concise, instrumental compositions built on rhythmic interplay between simple, repetitive motifs and between the players. Rejecting the cold bleakness of the digital domain, Shogun Kunitoki choose to craft their sounds using worn analog equipment in order to give electronic music a soulful, human warmth.

Artist:	VILLE LEINONEN & VALUMO
Title:	Varpunen
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	7"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FR 042EP

"During summer 1998 Ville Leinonen & Valumo made their first visit in a recording studio in Savonlinna, their hometown. Now this almost eight years old session of two songs has been released by Fonal Records. 'The Sparrow' is the same fragile little bird that appears on two old classic Finnish Christmas carols (Freezing to death on Christmas morning and locked in the cage of Sylvia). The poor bird is dying, the end is near. Will the famous gunslinger save it in time? 'Hey, my sister' leads us to late '90s smalltown-angst, too small circles. To a turning point of the darkest sequel of this reality show. Big Brother is about to lose his mind because of his little sister."

Artist:	ES/SAMI SANPAKKILA
Title:	Early Filmworks 1996 to 2006
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	FR 045DVD

"As an artist, Sänpäkkilä is someone who transcends conventional boundaries: film, music and visual art each vie for his attention. In fact, these separate areas are integrated in his work to such an extent that he could with equal justification be considered a visual artist, a filmmaker or a musician. His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspension is also present in the soundtracks to his works. The resulting entity is hypnotic, trance-inducing. It has been said that every trance is an attempt to solve a problem. This should be understood broadly: a 'problem' could be anything, positive or negative, that calls for a decision or a solution. For the artist, it could be a problem or a challenge related to his work, and whilst dealing with it he falls into a state of waking dream. The spectators, however, do not have to concern themselves with the artist's problems. Each of them has a trance of their own, a train of thought that produces the ideas, solutions or answers for which they are prepared and which are useful to them. A trance does have an intrinsic value, though. It is a creative state in the twilight zone between sleep and a waking state. Trance can also be described as movement, like the jumps in 91: 11-12 or the running in 'Surrealistin Kaksi Vasenta Kättä.' This movement can lead to the recuperation, as well as the regeneration, of the mind and the senses. While it may initially be less obvious, another prominent quality of Sänpäkkilä's art is spirituality." Region Free. PAL & NTSC (double sided for worldwide play).

Artist:	CHAMELLOWS
Title:	Rat Hearts
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 046CD

This is the first full-length release by Chamellows (aka Sleeping Bags), originally released in 2006. Chamellows is a project by Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) and the visual artist Mikko Kuorinki. Some of these songs have been recorded as far back as 10 years ago. Some were previously released on 50-150 limited edition 7"s and cassettes. They still sound fresh and new today, almost like a more demented Moldy Peaches album or The Shaggs at their best. However, they are more experimental, weaving amazing melodies and rhythms into songs that will keep playing in your head as often as the top 10 record of the week.

Artist:	ISLAJA
Title:	Ulual YYY
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 049CD

Islaja's third album, originally released in 2007 on the Fonal label. Ulual YYY, to the listener, is a journey deep into dreams and fairytales, but to the artist herself, it is a reality. Her songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet, she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free-folk super trio with members of Lau Nau and Kuupuu.

Artist:	KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT
Title:	Kemialliset Ysävät
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 050CD

This is the fourth full-length album by Kemialliset Ystävät on the Fonal label, originally released in 2007. Pulsating, radiant and turbo-charged, this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. It's a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defiant message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking out for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past, this record would not exist, and there's still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix, too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Lots of energy went into the mixing: a million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic, over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows in every direction, resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power -- it is like shooting up echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible.

Artist:	PACCHU, FRICARA
Title:	Stories of the Old
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	7"/Book
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 051EP

Includes a 7" vinyl and a 40-page full-color book. Fricara Pacchu started out as a rapper in The Backdoor Funkers, as a member of Slow Convulsion, Rorererot, Avarus, etc., but not until techno-rock-trio Maniacs Dream was Pacchu able to find his shattered inner plectrum. Hence, the music on this 7" is the consequence of using a plectrum. On his earlier cassette releases: "Where do you go after you've single-handedly destroyed the entire canon of recorded psychedelic musics? Into techno, apparently."

Artist:	ES
Title:	Sateenkaarisuudelma
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	FR 052CD

Originally released as a 2LP by the (K-RAA-K)³ label in 2005, Sateenkaarisuudelma is Fonal label-head Sami Sänpäkkilä's fourth solo album under the name Es. The 2CD release is a trilogy containing three independent parts: "Sateenkaarisuudelma," "Maailmankaari" and "Pianokaari." Sateenkaarisuudelma was conceived from live songs performed on tour with Black Forest/Black Sea's Miriam Goldberg on cello, Jeffrey Alexander on guitar and effects, and Fursaxa's Tara Burke on vocals and keyboard. "Maailmankaari" I and II were recorded at Boston's WMBR radio station. Featuring rushing piano cadences and stabs, the sounds of burbling streams and static, softly chanting vocals, spectral, psychedelic ambience, dark koan/drones and endlessly looped guitar and electronics, this double album is a contemplative journey into a sound quite beyond freak-folk or Finnish quaintness. Other musicians include members of Kemialliset Ystävät, Kiila and Lau Nau.

Artist:	LEINONEN, VILLE
Title:	Suudelmitar
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 053CD

Originally released on CD by Poko Records in 2004, this is the debut full-length release by Ville Leinonen. This is a musical journey to the shores of imagined inner lands and to the Scandinavian forests of hopes and dreams. These songs are moments of beauty from nature, cities and villages. It's autumn in Finland. Freezing wind blows from Itämeri -- the sea. Rain washes the streets of Helsinki. Suudelmitar expresses knowing and understanding foreign cultures as they appear in common everyday life and music. Sweet and nostalgic flamenco-styled guitar and strident, trilling flute evoke a troubadour, street musician vibe. Bossa nova grooves are carefully orchestrated with horns and male and female jazz duets, and there's even a surprising sitar jam. Laid-back indie lounge for world travellers riding on a joyful breeze.

Artist:	ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA
Title:	Vainajan Muotokuva
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 054CD

This is the debut full-length by Eleanoora Rosenholm. Eleanoora Rosenholm comes from Pori, Finland and is a project began by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö. They crafted a genius pop album with murderous lyrics inside the dark stone walls that surround SS-Palace studio. The time came to take the show on the road and the band evolved into a full 8-piece. Weird, almost avant synth-pop harmonies with creepily-sweet Finnish vocals, sometimes vocoded. Combining the best of karaoke-backed dance tracks with propulsive '80s sheen and tastes of Bow Wow Wow/Lizzy Mercier Descloux-esque tribe-pop irreverence. Totally addictive and hook-ridden, like you can't stop eating candy -- this is weird-disco any housewife serial killer would be proud to dance to.

Artist:	PAAVOHARJU
Title:	Laulu Laakson Kukista
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 055CD

This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. Sources of inspiration include Tuote Savonlinna, Saimaa, Miekkoniemi, Tove Jansson, Caspar David Friedrich, John Bauer, William Blake, Hugo Simberg, The Shadows, Burzum, Spede Pasanen, Boards Of Canada, luola, Es, Tapio Rautavaara, Raamattu, Deaf Center, Ville Leinonen, lo-fi, Portishead, Joose Keskitalo, Winsor McCayn, Pikku Nemo, Miasmah, Ingmar Bergman, Deathspell Omega, Ragnar Rock, and Ed Gein. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests.

Artist:	PAAVOHARJU
Title:	Laulu Laakson Kukista
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 055LP

LP version. This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. Sources of inspiration include Tuote Savonlinna, Saimaa, Miekkoniemi, Tove Jansson, Caspar David Friedrich, John Bauer, William Blake, Hugo Simberg, The Shadows, Burzum, Spede Pasanen, Boards Of Canada, luola, Es, Tapio Rautavaara, Raamattu, Deaf Center, Ville Leinonen, lo-fi, Portishead, Joose Keskitalo, Winsor McCayn, Pikku Nemo, Miasmah, Ingmar Bergman, Deathspell Omega, Ragnar Rock, and Ed Gein. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests.

Artist:	ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA
Title:	Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 060CD

This is the second full-length release from Finland's Eleanoora Rosenholm on the Fonal label. Campy synth-pop melodies, dramatic guitar riffage and simple programmed beats dance over sweet Finnish vocals. It all sounds like a score to a happily-weird Euro disco-musical, but underneath it all is this vague threat or dark fear, which may explain the band's own description of this album: "Eleanoora Rosenholm and her six orphan brothers step up on the altar hunted by an unexplainable grief and misery. The nun has been desecrated in the monastery and the school's principal mutilated in the primary school's woodshed. A Russian prisoner of war draws his last breath on a snowy potato field. The relentless fist of war strikes fire in the horizon. We will never understand why things in life turn out the way they do, for they form and grow deeper meaning despite us. Chaos has its own will and its boot does not step to the General officer's lash." Yup.

Artist:	ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA
Title:	Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 060LP

LP version. This is the second full-length release from Finland's Eleanoora Rosenholm on the Fonal label. Campy synth-pop melodies, dramatic guitar riffage and simple programmed beats dance over sweet Finnish vocals. It all sounds like a score to a happily-weird Euro disco-musical, but underneath it all is this vague threat or dark fear, which may explain the band's own description of this album: "Eleanoora Rosenholm and her six orphan brothers step up on the altar hunted by an unexplainable grief and misery. The nun has been desecrated in the monastery and the school's principal mutilated in the primary school's woodshed. A Russian prisoner of war draws his last breath on a snowy potato field. The relentless fist of war strikes fire in the horizon. We will never understand why things in life turn out the way they do, for they form and grow deeper meaning despite us. Chaos has its own will and its boot does not step to the General officer's lash." Yup.

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Artist:	TV-RESISTORI
Title:	Serkut Rakastaa Paremmin
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 044CD

Artist:	RISTO
Title:	Aurinko Aurinko Plaa Plaa Plaa
Label:	FONAL (FINLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FR 047CD