Tuesday, September 25, 2007

KUUPUU-S/T, CDR EP, 2003, FINLAND




The solo project of Jonna Karanka, one of the prime movers of the Finnish freak folk contingent (Avarus, Maniac's Dream, Anaksimandros, Herta Lussu Assa etc.), Kuupuu's legend has spread quite a bit thanks to the efforts of Dekorder Records, who've compiled tracks from her first four CDR releases across two compilation LP's, though this first release of hers traverses a bit different territory than the bulk of her releases that follows on from here, as the wispily warped and gauzily ephemeral detunage of her ghostly methodology originally possessed a bit more of an assertive edge, though relatively speaking, this is still a pretty gossamer affair, plinking and warbling away in inspired naif style.

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9 comments:

Sure said...

i like to see Kuupuu stuff here.
very good psych trip folk drone.
here is new album of Kuupuu
http://community.livejournal.com/folktronica/95183.html
kuupuu - unilintu (dekorder vinyl 2007
(BTW. from the FIN scene is also great Kemialliset Ystavat band ;-)

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to hear this one.

I would recommend also a band called Kuusumun Profeetta.

cool breeze said...

thank you!..is there a password, tho?

lookin forward to this'un..

ellanios said...

I liked very much kuupuu - unilintu which Josef suggested.Unfortunatly was not able to unzip their Ep from Muta.has anyone same problems by unziping? By the way , any Informations about the group Mystical Rest. I can't find anything about them.

Anonymous said...

Kuupuu blows. Complete crap.

Yngi

Anonymous said...

7-zip just extracts an empty folder (can not open output file.)

Anonymous said...

More contemporary Finnish Underground stuff please. I'm usual iffy about the ethics of posting material so recent, but so many recent Finnish discs are essentially unfindable unless you're a dedicated record collector with infinite funds. I'm guilt of having taken this scene for granted, having heard one too many 'getting weird out in the woods' combos three years or so back, but it seems it's evolved at an amazing rate. The new Kemiallist Ystavat disc is astonishing.

Anonymous said...

More out of print Finnish underground stuff please! It's tragic how many of these discs are out of print.

Sure said...

there is another underground Finland collection: http://bloodistruth.blogspot.com/2007/07/reup-droneexpfolk-from-finland.html
*Kemialliset Ystävät
*Islaja
*Lau Nau
*Paavoharju
and some links too.