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Friday, June 03, 2005
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Avarus: "Taivaalla Tapahtuu"
Avarus: "Yo Tuli Ja Beduini"

tUMULt, the weird metal / heavy noise label from California, and the party at least partly responsible for Harvey Milk’s renaissance, has compiled all the out-of-print releases from Avarus here on a double-disc monster called Ruskeatimantti. Jan Anderzen, founding member of both Avarus and Kemialliset Ystavat, is probably the linchpin of the cresting Finnish “free-folk” biz, and is thusly responsible for some of the best mind-zapping rock of the last few years. If you dig on extraterrestrial forest jams and/or Asgard rock (which, I’m assuming, all our readers must do), then Avarus is worth exploring. That moment forty seconds or so into “Taivalla Tapahtuu”, when the stark stringed-thing plucks give way to a lo-fi rock drone, fairly encapsulates the musical range of this hippified noise cabal. The twirling, childlike lilt of “Yo Tuli Ja Beduini”, with its haphazard whistles, strings, and drums, sounds almost naïve enough to be some sort of outsider Kraut-rock. These two pieces are indicative of the two-disc set as a whole, yet neither one can provide an accurate glimpse into the beauty of the twenty-minute piece called “AVP”. It’s a little too long to fit on this site, but for anybody who likes these two examples I heartily recommend hunting down Ruskeatimantti in order to hear “AVP”.
 
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