Angel - Kalmukia download free

It's a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-don't scenario when members of a high-profile "band" each go their seperate ways to explore their own creativity. Mika Vainio has been quite active for numerous years prior, during, and after his stint as one half of Panasonic (I still refuse to call then Pan Sonic even after all these years), but I discovered that finding other works by Ilpo Väisänen was more difficult, hence why it is so hard to find a frame of reference, should that ever be required.Many fans of the infamous duo would probably expect a hint of Pan's sonics to resonate in the post-project's other cirriculars, such as Ilpo's ANGEL, but a warning is at hand, for this album, "Kalmukia", not only proves that there are other aural tonalities to explore than the ground covered sinc Panasonic's 15-year journey, but also represents a unique release in its own right, with sound textures belonging only on such a release and somewhat alien to other Angel releases. In fact, one would also claim that the "musical" canvas of "Kalmukia" would almost serve as imaginary soundtracks to non-existing fictionous motion pictures. Trading the somewhat "traditional" electronically-mutative tonular soundcapes for guitars in the opener ("Bones In The Sand"), one could almost imagine this piece as a musical backdrop to a post-Leone western film.The remainder of the pieces on this disc follow a similar, yet ultimately uniquely specific to their own, course in the sense that each long track is a sonic soundscape of evolving and manipulated soundtrack of sorts, involving very little to no rhythm structure whatsoever, instead relying on the force of sound itself, be it an ear-crunching electronic tone, or a somewhat softer dark-ill drone clashing through the waves. This is a mighty fine effort from Ilpo and Dirk Dresselhaus, with special guest Hildur Guðnadóttir, which was obviously made as a stand-alone piece rather than an effort to follow in the well-known footsteps of the Panasoni giants from which most will have known the works of Ilpo from. If you are expecting anything in the likes of "Kesto" 's first or second discs, you may be quite displeased seeing as this record falls into the catagery of ambient-drone electronic experimentalism more than anything else. A welcomed addition to my own collection!