Laulu laakson kukista

Sounds of raindrops falling on sheet metal roof melted together with old television’s random-dot-pattern-noise. Leena Uotila’s soft voice echoed in empty, dusty rooms. Catowls gathered to the sky, appletrees were blooming and waves rocked a barrell against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette’s magnetic tape. I finished our work with prayer only a moment before the cold winds rose from Saimaa. Laulu laakson kukista (A song about flowers of the valley) is dedicated to Marja Ainala. – M.Jamson Ssources of inspiration: 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, Siionin virret, Badding, Ingmar Bergman, Pupsi-Jussi, Deathspell Omega, Ragnar Rock, Ed Gein, kuolema.

Finnish collective on the Fonal label scatters Europop, rustic folk, pastel electronics, and woolen drones like a tossed deck of playing cards.

Paavoharju is part of an intriguing scene that subsists in Finland but seems to hail from a spirit world where the natural and the ethereal blur. The latest of several notable offerings from the Finnish label Fonal, Laulu Laakson Kukista finds the group studiously adrift, with impressionistic glimmers of sound (bird…

And how, you may ask, did we all come to be paying attention to a semi-reclusive bunch of ascetic born-again Christians, making music “from the deepest...