Label: Creel Pone

自国のアヴァン録音ものも多く残した60年代より続くフィンランドの老舗Love Records。このレーベルが77年に出版したÅke Andersson & Antero Honkanenのどマイナーにして激レアな二つの物件[Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat]、[Ode To Marilyn]をCreel PoneがカップリングでCD-R化。他の作家も参加した[Ode To Marilyn]は一応ジャズ路線との事で若干緩さがある様に感じますが、[Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat]はメロディアスな曲を含めナゼか全体通して非常に冷徹で恐ろしいイメージ。





A pair of mid-70s Finnish Experimental Electro-Acoustic gems featuring "Suomalaista Elektroakustista Musiikkia" 's Antero Honkanen, masquerading as 1). a picturesque "Music To Accompany Paintings" affair and 2). a straight-ahead jazz-fusion session.

The first disc here covers "Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat," a wonderful set dovetailing pieces by Honaken & Åke Andersson, composed after paintings by Reidar Särestöniemi at the Experimental Studio of Yleisradio. With a production style owing to the formative works made a few hundred kilometers away at EMS in Stockholm, this set is rife with ghostly voices & errant, floating, bubbling electronics laid out in song-length nuggets, with occasional détournement into "Song of the Second Moon" -esque melodic figures and rhythmic filigree.

The second disc offers the entirety of "Ode To Marilyn," a red-herring if there ever was one; essentially a "Headless" studio session involving Finnish jazz legends Edward Vesala & fellow "Suomalaista Elektroakustista Musiikkia" contributor Jarmo Sermilä taken over by Honkanen's Electronic production, to the point where little of the original instrumentation remains. Honkanen's liberal application of studio effects & filtrations all but eroding the timbral & iterative characteristics of most of the "Playing" here, leaving a spectral slime-trail that's as removed from anything remotely "Instrumental" as imaginable.