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Finnish free jazz veteran Erkki Joutseno has been delivering rumbling beats and an unhinged attitude since the 70's in various line-ups and style variations, but always coming across with a method to his madness. Discipline and humor meet in his music as they do in his life. This is the first album of Erkki's own compositions and improvisations, compiled over a lengthy period of time since the mid-00's. The improvised pieces deliver atonal moods on prepared solo piano, a beautiful ballad and some noisy metal junk duets with woodwinds. The composed pieces range from stillstanding tripping to stomping noise-rock. Erkki Joutseno has played with Alan Silva, Riko Goto, Tapani Varis, travelled across Europe, played on stages and street corners and nowadays lives amidst nature in a small forest house. The compositions on this album are purification trips into different personal infernos and back. The people involved include players from finnish underground powerjazz long-liners Sound & Fury, Astro Can Caravan and Kuhmalahden Nuubialaiset. The instrumentation ranges from drums, reeds, piano, double bass, etc, to metal junk, alarm clocks and toys. The album was not recorded in any studio, but slowly pieced together from group sessions at the practice room and smaller scale home recordings.
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