Blog: AWmusic

Wish I knew what the words meant . . . The descriptors generally applied to Paavoharju's 2008 sophomore effort, Laulu Laakson Kukista include experimental, ambient, folk, though they all apply obliquely, as far cas I an hear. This LP has everything. The second track "Kevatrumpu" moves like a muddy dance song, while the fifth is a forty-nine second score to a very short film. The online literature proposes that this ten-member Finnish band is composed of ascetic Christians, and though I might not have thought so had I failed to cross the description, I began [...]

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