photos from Pyhä Kuolema - Saavun vaikken kulkisi -party 22.10.2011

photos: C.Morte & M.Mania / SkorpiusVision

MAA live at Darkland Fire festival, Estonia 3.12.

MAA will perform live 3.12. 2011 at Darkland Fire festival, Rakvere, Estonia

 

Pyhä Kuolema "Saavun vaikken kulkisi" 22.10.

Pyhä Kuolema

"Saavun vaikken kulkisi"

released 22.10. 2011

orders: info [at] animaarctica.fi

http://www.animaarctica.fi/

                Pyhä Kuolema is a solo project of Mikko Pöyhönen. It was founded a while after the neofolk-duo Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa decided to quit. The ruins of Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa left behind were still smoking when something new, beautiful and fresh started already grow from there. The death of the duo Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa was also the birth of Pyhä Kuolema - a birth of  an extremely intimate, emotional, personal, and spiritual solo-project.

                Traditional to the bone, but still clearly finding it’s own sound despite the classic  ”man+guitar” approach, Pyhä Kuolema debut album ”Saavun vaikken kulkisi” brings forth a dozen of atmospheric, national romantic, extremely emotional and personal songs sung in Finnish. The style of playing and singing varies from solemn ritualistic neofolk-songs to troubadur-like playful approach to traditional folk.                

                Despite the fact that he is also a quarter of the neofolk-lounge band MAA, and half of the gloomy neofolk and freezing ritual music duo Tervahäät, he is still driven by so such a great urge to create, that new songs for Pyhä Kuolema are found frequently. He composed, sung, played, recorded and mixed the whole album by himself, giving it the intimate touch and manages the handling of the double edged sword that this kind of folk can be – the  sometimes even rough and stripped down output with no gimmicks is this time succesfully shaking hands with the alluring soft intensity.

 

http://www.animaarctica.fi/
 info-at-animaarctica.fi
www.animaarctica.fi/pyhäkuolema
mikko-at-taistelu.org

MAA steel pins

The logo of MAA - the spring sigil, the sacred heart - is now available as a noble, beautiful and sturdy steel pin.

solid steel

size 1"

108 pc. available

price: 6€
orders:  info [at] animaarctica.fi

Pyhä Kuolema: Saavun vaikken kulkisi pre-order!

- PYHÄ KUOLEMA -
"Saavun vaikken kulkisi"

22. 10. 2011

pre-orders: info[at]animaarctica[dot]fi
13€ + p&p, orders posted on 22.10.

Somnivore review at HEX Magazine

Somnivore
Clergy of Oneiros
Anima Arctica, 2007
Review by Henry Lauer

True to their name, Finnish experimentalists Somnivore have served up a dream-laden sonic voyage with their album Clergy of Oneiros. Using found sounds, samples, noisescapes, and a stately sense of drama, they’ve created an unsettling, absorbing, and subtle piece of otherworldly work.
In essence the soundtrack for a shamanic journey, the music weaves fragments of classical music, noise, chanting, percussion, some truly unique mouth harp, and all sorts of recognizable (and not) samples. The tapestry of sound flows smoothly, freely…yet also with that disjointed, constant segue that dreams exemplify.
If the overall effect, therefore, is something that could be called dark ambient music, then so be it. Atmosphere is the order of the day, but the album doesn’t conjure dark horizons so much as the mercurial landscape of inner space and occult vision. Whether Gothic choirs, whirring buzzes, ritualistic drumming, or enigmatic, softly-spoken word, Somnivore never ceases in its hazy ramble through the landscape of the midnight hour.
This is an album for dreamers, trance-explorers, and mystics. It feels primal, like a lake buried deep beneath the earth, cold and still and resonant with the distant sounds filtering through the Underworld. Although there is enough repetition and structure to keep the ear engaged, the album continually opens and closes doors into dreaming and forgetfulness. At times it can be an unsettling experience.
Clergy of Oneiros is not for every listener, being clad in shadow and eerie gloom. As an aid for trance, meditation, and inner exploration, however, it seems extremely well suited. Recommended for those with an ear for atmosphere, magic, and liminality of mood.

MAA, Tervahäät, Pyhä Kuolema T-shirts!

Available from the Anima Arctica shop!

Pyhä Kuolema logo shirt

Tervahäät logo & tree

MAA, logo & birds
(these are leftovers from MAA concert, only a couple left, more soon!)