ARPEGGIO

Environmental recordings from public events greet the listener, facing hypnotic electronic loopings from another mysterious incarnation of Rättö, Lehtisalo and their musician friends. The precise drumming unites smoothly with synthesizer loops and allows perspective to plastic sceneries of industrial landscapes. Funky bass tones are round, and overall feeling of the record is quite optimistic and hectic with the constant movement within the minimal schemes. I liked personally most the relaxed lounging of song "Interpol", slightly reminding tones remembered from Taipuva Luotisuora's concerts. Also the ambiences from 1980's Tangerine Dream recordings could be one reference from my limited perception. Technically a fine recording, but aesthetically not matching my own tastes of listening. Though I enjoyed this kind of sound realms much on the group's previous work on a film, the loss of further impulse dimensions leave me alone with my own inner desires, and create a conflict of these two different worlds clashing in an unfruitful manner. Friends of fresher monotonic electronic music should check this record out, I personally ventured for their monumental "Ukkossalama" album, which in my opinion changed the musical approach from this Circle project band completely.