Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 October 2014 CE

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Fatalist F
Fatalist Oct 6, 2014 10:44:58
Replying to Monganaut

Monganaut wrote:
Cool. Think I read on t'web somewhere that the whole Holy Sons thang was his reaction to a particularly long and bad bout of depression. He basically took a LOT of acid, and challenged himself to come up with a track a day as therapy. Said he essentially 'wrote' his way out of the blues. Think the article also mentioned almost a 1000 tracks recorded to 4 track, so there could be plenty more where these releases came from. As far as I recall, he takes what he considers the best of thwm, and polishes them up and overdubs guitars/ keyboards/ drums etc till he's happy. Been a great hit rate so far as far as I'm concerned. I love Grails, but prefer the Holy Sons output as it seems more human, if that makes sense.

Also, as to Circle, Hissi is a mighty fine record. There's a few threads about good releases archived somewhere on HH. I don't have every release, but my 2p worth would be, in no particular order...

Prospekt, for insanely good metal repetiton
Alotus, for Mogwai-esqu ambient atmospheric guitar noodlings
Forest/ Miljard/Guillotine, for the out there strug out alt/kraut-folk side
Meronia, their debut for a bit of Loop style action
Zopalki, a little like Hissi (ditto Andexlt)
Taantumus, for a more post rock sound (ditto Fraten)
Raunio, sweet live album from Prospekt/Taantumus period
Telescope - great live album
Six Day Run, Six tracks in 6 days. Pretty good on the whole.

Stuff that's a bit Hmmm (50/50 good/bad)

Pori - Post rock jazz ensemble
Katapult, odd bit of cool repetition plus bad metal
Golem/Versillerto - More odd folk, emphasis on odd

Stuff I ain't so fond of...

Hollywood, bad heavy rock
Sunrise, bad metal
Panic, as above
Tulikoira, ditto
Leviatan - Falcon (ex Circle) almost hair metal

Thanks, that's great! Yeah, intrigued by this recent left turn into alternative hair metal, assume this is a band that's gone through a lot of members?

M Monganaut
Monganaut Oct 6, 2014 19:47:20
Replying to Fatalist

Surprisingly, looking at recent photo's of Circle, the 'main' line up looks to be pretty consistent with the earlier ones. I guess they just like to mix things up a little and have a punt at everything musically (well save dub, house etc...:)

They did that Falcon (ex Circle) album, then followed it with a Circle (Ex Falcon) release, so I guess the Finnish sense of humour is at play in some respects. Oh, they often sing in a made up language too, think it was called Meronian or something (kinda llike Magma in that respect).

I (well my wife spotted them first) jumped on the bandwagon during the Prospekt period, when they did a short tour with Acid Mothers Temple (2001/2?) caught 2 or 3 shows and have been a fan ever since. Those gigs were amazing, they locked in like no other band I can think of (possibly Boredoms live) and the sound was feroucious, plus the singer/keyboardists 'Rob Halford-isms' added a touch of hilarity. Saw them with Guapo around the Five Suns period, that was wonderful too. Guapo rocked live as well, they had a drummer at that time who was something else.

As I mentioned in the list, not everything is to my liking, but god bless em' for trying. You're never sure what you may get, and I like that.