PÄIVÄNSÄDE
POK-3 ½
Päivänsäde cassette
This is for everybody who hasn't got the Päivänsäde double
cassette released by POK earlier! It's basically a re-release of
the songs that you won't find on the LP Puhalluspelto, released
by Eclipse. Berry good! Quality stuff! Loved by many! Hand
coloured Xerox sleeves with nice silk paper.
"Päivänsäde shares members
of Rauhan Orkesteri, LL, and Kiila, and their flowing group
interaction shares elements of all three: from RO comes an
openness, LL a global influence and Kiila a pointillistic
density. The improvisations on their cassette unfold with the
gentle grace of the alap sections of Indian ragas. They use the
jouhikko, the kantele, flutes, voice and hand percussion to
create their earthy, yet expansive atmospheres. Ligeti-like
string layers emit a spectral, microtonal glow, while below the
surface kanteles rustle delicately. In other places, a spare drum
beat and wailing vocalizations lend the pieces a dramatic
urgency. Päivänsäde is concerned with evolution, and the time
limits of recording technology confine the group to glimpses of
their broad-minded explorations, as if the group is trying to
break their constraints in search of freedom." -Matthew
Wuethrich
"the dominant characteristic of this one is a rigorously
acoustic improvisation, whose roots tend to locate in the world
of free jazz, although they use native folk instruments from
Finland. In this way they manage to articulate a psychedelic
space from an acoustic improv that leans more in the silences and
the sudden structure shifts that in reverbs and mantra. For that
reason, the sound from the recording is very important, that
tends to give a unifying character to the whole album. That sound
is so fluid and opened that it gives rise to interesting tensions
and distensions that originate and dissolve without any evident
pattern, after which it seems to be a subtle atonal intelligence
in a precise frame of frequencies.
Different types from wind sounds, timbres, percussions and voices
[rise from unpronounced instruments] seem to create a kind
atmosphere so that spontaneous and vertiginous solo flutes or
other small instruments lead our attention to the details, while
more deep changes happen simultaneously. - José Miguel Salazar
Z, Loop