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LINKS [AB-OC-35] AVARUS - Rasvaaja  LP only This title is currently OUT OF PRINT, sorry Side "one or": 1. Putoan... Smäisk 2. Moikkelis Kaikille Ooteko Siellä 3. Nannamonttu Side "the other": 1. Seisojat Vuorella 2. Susihämähäkki Brand new Avarus! LP only...all exclusive tracks...limited to 300 copies world-wide...direct metal mastering to 160 gram vinyl...amazingly psychedelic sleeves designed by Bema Bergman and hand-screened in seven colors by Mike Taylor...full color inner labels...this is HOT SHIT. Better dig in there fanboy and get a heaping mouthful of this steaming pile of poop before it's too late. [AB-OC-25] AVARUS - Vesikansi  CD only This title is currently OUT OF PRINT, sorry 1. Lapsivesi 2. Löylyvesi [MP3] 3-4. Vissyvesi 49 minutes of gooey new goodness from Avarus - spread over just three tracks. In the last year, Finland's experimental underground has successfully overtaken the freak music world, and for damn good reasons. From the same tattered coven of piss drinkers who alternately refer to themselves (depending on who shows up to record) as Kemialliset Ystävät, Lau Nau, Pylon, Islaja, Es, Kiila or the Anaksimandros comes this, another Secret Eye release from the mighty Avarus - a follow-up to last year's Jättiläisrotta. These fumbling Finns conjure a smoky, shit-drunk forest of noise, folk and unsurpassable tribal improv. Features guest vocals and casio from Tara Burke (AKA Fursaxa) recorded live in Ireland. REVIEWS "...Avarus have once again brought out the heavy lumber. On their latest release Vesikansi, the avant-rock collective attain new peaks/depths of crude free-form bewilderment, plunging the listener into a sonic wilderness so dense and impenetrable that one must fight the urge to begin foraging for food and building a treehouse." - Pitchforkmedia.com "Avarus are one of the cornerstone groups of modern Finnish psychedelia, trailblazers for the recombinant aesthetic pioneered by a small gaggle of artists whose self-released, subterranean music is as baffling and crude as it is celebratory and hilarious. As with compatriots Kemialliset Ystavat, Avarus's line up is often in flux, though it appears to revolve around Roope Eronen and Arttu Partinen, and, on Vesikansi, Fursaxa's Tara Burke joins them on two lengthy live improvisations. Though Avarus often achieve a heightened, concentrated group-mind, they are natural jokers, and this goofy-but-not-dumb sense of humour is reflected by some of their artwork (in this case, an ice cream sundae set adrift on a world map, and a hand-drawn moustachioed octopus) that humour works its way into the music too: the overheated amp noise of "Loylyvesi" is undercut with slurring that sounds as though it's being played back through a tape machine running on low batteries, and around a third of the way through "Vissyvesi", a gloriously idiotic five-note synth riff farts through the murk. Those moments serve to lighten the listening experience, but "Vissyvesi" also detours into an extended wash of beatific hum, and the degraded scour of "Lapsivesi" is brittle and fragile, the magnetic tape about to disintegrate under the recording heads. The real joy in Avarus's music is their ability to negotiate this balancing act, essaying surprising moments of beauty and humour." - Jon Dale in The Wire [AB-OC-13] AVARUS - Jättiläisrotta  CD only $11 USA; $15 World 1. Snoopysnoop Snooberson 2. Donkkaavaräppäävä Kaalikoira 3. Iso Lääkelaiva 4. Itu Kurkistaa Mullasta 5. Herra Ykkönen 6. Amurin Hiuskolmio [MP3] 7. Ahdistava Haisemisen Loordi [MP3] 8. Prinssi Halonen 9. Välivääpelin Välikäpy 10. Joutsenkivi Not'sissa The title of this album, Jättiläisrotta (trans. Giant Rat) derives from Avarus' theory of the Three Stages of Drunkenness: Stage 1. "I wish I were drunk." Stage 2. "I have to puke." Stage 3. Jättiläisrotta From the circle of psychos who bring you Kemialliset Ystävät and the Anaksimandros comes this release by the one and only Avarus. These Finns play a freaked out blend of noise, folk and, could it be... free jazz!???!??!!??! Packed with aural mayhem and musical non-sequiturs, this music will make you dance like Dr. Huxtable, no joke. Although they have released many tapes, 7", and CD-r's all over the world, this is Avarus' FIRST CD! REVIEWS "Jättiläisrotta (Secret Eye) cycles between rumbling free jazz, airy tribalism, and spaced-out Day of Niagara sessions. They manage also to slip the lovely underwater, near-folk strum-a-long "Ahoistava Haisemisen Loordi" into the mix. "Prinssihalonen" kicks up a chiming psychedelic vortex as powerful as anything Avarus has done to date. The strings are skyrockets and the boom-crash chugga-chugga drums are a treat. Throughout, think Sunburned Hand of the Man, perhaps the collective's best, kindred analogue." - Brandon Stosuy for Pitchforkmedia.com "Avarus have reached new heights on "Jättiläisrotta." This is fun music. It's about sitting down with friends with a few drinks and having a good time. Now if only every such encounter would produce such fantastic aural results. Avarus are definitely one-of-a-kind." - Brad Rose for Foxy Digitalis "The wide-eyed forest dwellers of Avarus come from the pool of Finnish musicians that spawned the magnificent Kemialliset Ystävät. They play a brand of music on the outer extremes of the free-folk movement. A spirit of drugged-out frenzy drives this relentlessly changing music, resulting in songs that evolve like a species: not on an obvious linear path, but in fits and starts-obeying a strange logic inaccessible to the players themselves. Avarus conjures a gorgeous and frightening musical object, and they capture the feeling of mystery of music on acid." - Bryan Berge in Stylus Magazine reviewing Avarus' Jättiläisrotta (Secret Eye) 
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