Sunburned Circle- The Blaze Game
(Conspiracy Records core054)
Sunburned Circle- The Blaze Game
(Conspiracy Records core054)
From Aural Innovations #38 (Jan 2008)
This is some pretty strange and far out stuff but I would expect no less
when you put Sunburned Hand of the Man and Circle in a studio for a few days…
The opening track Majava is 7 mins and quite a lowfi track with not a lot happening
but strange meanderings. Heinävelho is a 9 minute freakout of sorts that
stars very much like the last track but has more strange vocals and sounds and
it seems like the drums are going to take the track somewhere but they don’t.
This leads directly into Vuoren Valloitus and the bass line is building up more
but most of the sound is still in the background creating a special strange
vibe. Now the guitars become more noticeable in the soundscape. Variksenpelätin
continues in this slow and spacey place in the world with some guitar noodling
here and there as the track builds but still this distant huge like recorded
in a warehouse with metal siding sound prevails. Strange stuff.. A track with
a very long Finnish name is next and here finally a more uptempo groove is building
over the repeated bass line with keyboards and guitars noodling in the background
while what sounds like a constantly shaking percussion instrument dominates.
Bizarre. Lentävä Linnoitus is a sort of weird synth improve with a
lot of other strange stuff happening around it. The last real track, Tappajahauki
is a freakout track but still a strange production sound. If you really like
just tripped out soundscapes of what sounds like people on a lot of drugs freaking
out, check this out.. Fucking weird…
Check out the record label web site at: http://www.conspiracyrecords.com
Check out the Circle web site at: http://www.circlefinland.com
Reviewed by Scott Heller