Eric Boros & Fritz Welch - WHNZ: 63: LICHRE (2013)

WHNZ

FMA

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Improvised music
• Dada music
• Electro-acoustic
• Experimental electronica
• Live session
• Avant-electronica
• Spoken word
• Abstract

Outstanding tracks:

Time Saves Fatal Tip Tricks

No Guru - WHNZ​:​58​:​LAAL (2013)

We Have No Zen

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Psych-folk
• Experimental folk
• New Weird Australia
• Free folk
• Electro-acoustic
• Freak folk
• Improvised music
• Weird folk
• Avant-folk
• Space folk

Outstanding tracks:
All Thumbs

Keijo - WHNZ:16:MYTIME (2010)

Bandcamp
Free Music Archive

Lastfm

9.3

/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.

Alpha Couple - WHNZ:27:NJNYC (2011)

We Have No Zen
FMA

9.3

/New Weird Canada,Psych-folk, Crossover, Avant-folk, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Improvised music, Sound art, Free folk, Experimentalism, Non music/
Comment: it is thoroughly problematic to classify this 4-track issue because of having at least two or even more strong intentions and axes within it. At first, it can be handled as an instance of acousmatic explorations which used to comprise the elements of musique concrète, improvised music, radio station-ragged samples and noise, and of course, radical yet striking folk/psych-folk/dream folk contents. By its folk-ish side it is essentially restraint resembling of Charalambides, for instance. However, all these parts are expressed in equal extent. Despite this radical content the publication seems to be a domesticable one after many listening times. Thanks to its open-ended approach and borders it offers the listener possibility for further imagination.