FMA
9.6
9.6
/Forest Folk, Sound art, Psych-folk, Avant-garde, Krautrock, Avant-folk, New Weird Finland, New Weird Europe, Abstract electronica, Musique concrète, Acousmatics, Experimentalism, Free folk, Improvised music/
Comment: Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu is one of those obscure Finnish artists who often is being tagged as "Forest folk", "New Weird Finland", the most powerful and radical folk movement worldwide (by the way, I think Paavoharju`s Laulu Laakson Kukista (2008, Fonal) was the most eminent release in the 00`s. Absolutely captivating, otherworldly music). More profoundly, this is a sort of folk which comes together with the definition of folk in very indirect way. With Islaja, and Lau Lau, however, Karanka represents the movement`s female point of view. There are represented 6 tracks which are made up of a minimalistic, repetition-heavy approach of improvised music fringed with tight concrete sounds. At times Karanka`s sound used to be more mathematics than music because all these patterns and progressions are subordinated to algorithms. Or it is more sound-art than general sort of song structured music reminding of the experiments by early krautrockers (Conrad Schnitzler, for instance). The release will be ended up by a lush vista of mellow running krautrock undertaking. Superb!