3/16/2012
Keijo - WHNZ:16:MYTIME (2010)
/Psych-folk, New Weird Finland, Improvised music, New Weird Europe, Forest folk, Free folk, Weird folk, Avant-folk, Experimental folk/
Comment: the Jyväskylä-based musician Keijo (Virtanen) is a godfather for nowadays Finnish experimental folk musicians, also known as the representatives of so-called Finnish forest folk (the equivalent for Finnish psych folk/New Weird Finland). By his contribution to the Finnish and other countries underground scenes Virtanen can be compared to the likes of Erkki Kurenniemi, and Pekka Airaksinen. However, there are represented a handful of long-running tracks (6 notches spreaded out over 37 minutes) which are profound ones due to their running on flickering incantations and exorcized, shamanic appearances-improvisations. In a word, classic.
