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KAARMELAUTAKUNTA

Alamaailman Vasarat

 

RIO/Avant-Prog

3.66 | 76 ratings

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snobb
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3 stars Finnish band plays metal/Balkan folk/klezmer/60-70-s movie soundtracks/classic and even jazz. All in one. In fact I like this music.

Whenever Apocalyptica some time ago opened for Finnish bands the way and formula to success, it is nothing strange to hear mostly classic strings sound there. More interesting is what for they are used. Not only pseudo-power metal sound, but many other styles, from all over the world. Great drumming, piano and brass adding to strings all are making the music much more different and dynamic.

It is possible to group album songs for few groups by stylistic similarity. First, Apocalyptica-influenced metal string attacks. Second - John Zorn influenced pseudo movie soundtracks ( to classic movies from your ( or possibly my) childhood)). Third - Balkan street bands, Goran Bregovič and klezmer influenced songs. This category often attract listener because of it's hot emotions and rhythms, but don't try to find deep interpretations of this music there. It sounds quite "on the surface", rootless, what isn't too strange for musicians from cold Finland.

All groups of songs sound quite interesting, but not too much connected between each other. Another problem, inside of the same group, songs are quite similar. So, being very eclectic, album is more collection of average ( and average +) songs. Even if many RIO bands (I believe under Masada and other Zorn's projects influence) started to mix same components at the late 90-s- early 00's, this album represents quite successful version of it. Around 3,5.

snobb | 3/5 |

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